SiNs-Critters

This is a blog dedicated to my reptiles.

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Beautiful babies! Why's your dad in the hospital though? Hope all is well!

Thank you. : )

He’s in for his mental health. Possibly will be out around Christmas time. We’ll see what happens. It’s been a very difficult year but we are moving forward.

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Garnet from last night, chilling on her perches. Once my dad is out of hospital we are going to make all the snakes nice, big new enclosures. I'm looking forward to that.

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“Make your bed, silly human”

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I think she enjoyed having a climb.

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Having a bath.

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Trying to have some sun time with Jakiro is sometimes quite difficult when he wants to try to eat you.

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Sun with Garnet

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So you messed up with animal care...

Maybe things got crazy at work and you missed a feeding day. Maybe you were sick or busy and let enclosure maintenance go for awhile. Maybe you didn’t notice something wrong as soon as you should have. Maybe you just now realized that you had bad information and had been doing something wrong for a long time.

1) Breathe. Everyone who keeps animals has made mistakes. Every single animal keeper that you look up to now has screwed up in their learning process (I don’t know if I’m anyone to look up to, but I have certainly made my share of mistakes). You are not an evil human being for messing up.

2) Fix whatever needs fixing to the best of your ability. Catch up on the things you’re behind on. Fix husbandry you were misinformed about. Take your pet to the vet if they are sick.

3) Think about why this happened and what you can do to keep it from happening again. Do you need to set reminders for yourself? Do you have too many things on your plate and need to let some of them go? Do you need to find a more reputable source for husbandry information?

4) If whatever it was that caused this is something permanent/recurring that you aren’t sure you can prevent then think about whether you are in a good position to properly care for yourself and your animals right now. If you are in a place where you need to focus on your mental or physical health, or just making ends meet, and that is taking all your energy right now, then maybe you need to find someone to help with your pets or find them a new home. Sometimes you need to take care of you first.

5) Whatever you decide, take another moment to just breathe. You are not a horrible person. Whatever happened before is done now, you are going to do what is best for your animals from now on and that’s what matters.

[sleepysnakes]

It’s also important for other people not to vilify others for making a mistake. Sometimes it just happens, it’s not always due to negligence.

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It only becomes negligence or abuse if it becomes a recurring theme.

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^ This. A mistake made once is a simple mistake. If that mistake is not learned from, it becomes negligence. 

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do not ask me why i spent 45 minutes making this

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My sand boa, Spoopy

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My corns, Persephone and Athena.

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My spotted baby, Kadru.

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Snoot Wars: A New Beep

Starring TOFFEE CRISP and BB-8

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