- Finally, after over three months
I can ship some animals,
but I only have one day to do it,
so I'm taking advantage and doing it now.
Now I have more than three animals here waiting to ship.
There's like a dozen that have sold
that have just been sitting here.
And I can't send them off,
because it's been too cold, and there's been delays,
and FedEx has had issues, and there was Christmas,
and it's been bad.
So shipping reptiles is straight up pain.
However, the weather just went whoop just enough.
So I can ship three out,
which I'll be doing.
And I also have this one to unbox.
'Cause someone sent me a corn snake.
So I just have my usual FedEx,
and the team all knows me and what I do.
And they're always super good about the packages,
they take great care.
And the guy came out and he was like,
"Sorry, Alex, I didn't know which way hold it."
Because how?
How do you mess up so bad when you're shipping,
when you're packing your animal to send it to me,
that you pack it upside down?
Are you trying to make it as difficult as possible?
I feel like some of you are just memeing at this point
for the sake of like a video.
I don't think you are,
because these are literally your personal pets
that I assume you cared about.
Anyway, I packed up three,
which is what I'll be overlaying you as I talk.
There's two snakes and a lizard.
First off, there was a leopard gecko,
just a chill, normal leopard gecko.
I mean, nothing special,
but if they were all special
then none of them would be.
So, it's a leopard gecko, it was cool.
And it went off to South Carolina,
so if not too far,
it was like a four hour drive probably.
It's one that I could have done like a local pickup for,
like meet them or even drive there,
but since this day came up,
it was like, it was all good.
But why'd you tape a Ziploc bag to this?
(plastic tearing)
I don't know what you did honestly.
Then there was a Nicaraguan boa
who was actually in an unboxing,
I don't know if it was part one or part two,
so you may or may not have seen the Nicaraguan boa.
I think it was, but I don't know honestly.
Just a little baby.
He was extremely grumpy and a pain,
and I honestly didn't like it that much.
It was cute and I was,
ooh, that smells bad.
Ooh, I'm gonna back up over here.
But I made sure it was clear on the posting.
Make sure the people know it's gonna be nippy,
which is especially common with little babies,
'cause, well, they're babies,
and they can get eaten pretty quickly.
So they have to be a lot more cautious,
a lot more careful.
And they have to be, I mean,
they're not comfortable with people yet.
They haven't been on earth for that long.
So it will be, and it'll get very big over time.
It was healthy and the owner seemed to be,
or well, the new owner,
seemed to be prepared and good to go.
Very humid, very moist.
(bag rattles)
Come on, just follow the instructions please.
This one's coming from Florida.
(bag rustling)
And this was up against the corn snake.
It's just,
it's so annoying.
I'm gonna give them benefit of the doubt,
because the person re-homing this corn snake,
actually couldn't wait.
I think they moved or something,
and so they had to leave it with their friend
who had to ship it for them who did a pretty bad job.
But the thing is, they got the instructions.
Ooh, we got some homework saturated in snake urine.
Yeah, I don't really know,
I mean, sometimes people will be like,
"I literally have to get rid of it in the next 48 hours,
or like game over."
Like "I'm moving to."
like one person recently moved like overseas,
and they're like "I literally have to get rid of it now."
But if it's 10 degrees outside,
and it's a 100% guarantee the animal is going to die,
I can't let them ship.
Now, sometimes if it's only a slight risk,
I'll be like, you know what?
It's extremely risky.
Please be aware that you are making this risky decision,
but if you really want to, you can ship.
And most of the time it's actually okay.
And the times where I'm like no,
you don't even get the address to ship it to,
you don't get a label,
I don't know what they do honestly.
But hopefully whatever it is better than
them dying in the mail.
Oh hello, is this another, is it blind?
I think it's a reverse Okeetee.
Oh, it is a reverse Okeetee.
I think it's blind partially.
One of its eyes is completely clouded over.
It's not very strong.
Doesn't have much muscle.
And it's mouth is slightly open.
Like, I mean corn snakes naturally
have a little hole in their mouth,
'cause when their tongue sticks out of it.
But it's very, it's kind of weird.
Well, it's definitely not gonna be one that's as easy
as making sure it's healthy for a while,
and then throwing it up on the site.
It'll need a little more attention of course.
So.
Um, cool.
Its weight is fine though.
It's not overweight.
A lot of people have their adult corn snakes
end up getting a little too thick.
Maybe they watch too many ball Python videos,
and I'm covered in snake urates.
Third animal I'm shipping today is a Kenyan sand boa,
who I know is in unboxing part one.
Just a little baby, healthy,
again nothing too special,
but cute little sand boa.
Ooh, actually it is a little underweight.
You can see its spine, but just barely.
I haven't seen that before.
I don't know, something about this corn snake's
just kind of funky.
But on the bright side, it survived,
which is usually expected,
but honestly, if it had been delayed a few days
there was definitely a risk
because the temperature's about to drop again.
So this was the one opportunity they really had to.
Why is it puffing up its neck like that?
What is wrong with this corn snake?
This thing just has problems.
I'm gonna be honest.
Yeah. The sand boa was here for a good while.
Six, five months maybe.
But it ate well, it grew a little bit.
It didn't grow all that much,
but sand boas are extremely slow growers.
Which I actually talk about in a sand boa video
if you search like for sand boas you could find that video.
So yeah, they'll all be on their way,
and I'm confident that they'll be fine,
because the delays have been okay recently.
Basically the company I use to ship, Ship Your Reptiles,
just keeps track of everything
going on with FedEx the best they can,
and keeping us updated as shippers.
And then we have those safe days.
What is wrong with you?
Huh?
Well, let me look, I'm gonna look at the email
to see if they said anything weird about it.
I'm gonna have to wash my mouse pad now.
Yeah, so it was shipped by a different person.
All right.
So in the pictures
they did not actually send a picture of its face.
They said, "We picked him up from someone
who was giving him away Craigslist a few months ago,
and he was extremely underweight.
The guy said his ex-girlfriend didn't feed him
for over nine months
and had a stuck eye cap for approximately three years ago.
We were able to get some weight back,
but we weren't able to help with his eye cap."
Yeah, it's not an eye cap, he's blind.
(Alex laughs)
Okay, so this person was moving across the country
literally a few days ago.
But if he had shipped a few days earlier,
it probably would've died.
Someone else was able to ship.
It makes a little more sense now.
And it's not their fault
that he's in such a weird condition.
That sucks though, I wonder why they,
were,
got it just a few months ago,
and then were moving.
I feel like you, if you're moving across the country
most people are gonna know like pretty much in advance.
But of course things come up, so.
So we, yeah, it's a half blind corn snake.
If it was extremely underweight,
that means that they actually did a great job
getting the weight on it.
It's understandable.
The thing about this, especially if you don't know the,
I don't think they said, yeah, they don't know the age.
If a corns snake is already an adult,
and they know it was like didn't eat for a long time,
was in poor care,
thought they had a stuck eye cap.
If it has all these problems,
who knows how long its life's been.
Is from this point it can be a week,
a month, a year, five years, 10 years.
It's pretty hard to say.
So it's the kinda thing where the buyer
if you're buying this corn snake, you don't,
it's not gonna be a lifelong pet,
but then again it could live for quite a while.
So it was one of those weird things.
And of course I'll try and make it clear on the listing,
assuming I can list it in the near future,
but we probably won't be able to ship the rest of February
which really sucks.
Might be a couple days. We'll see.
So in the meantime, I'm not really gonna post any animals
'cause it's just not the best use of time.
I'm just gonna focus on like videos and other stuff.
And then when the weather warms up,
and we can actually start shipping
is when I'll put more time into listing.
There are more animals coming in,
but ultimately more animals going out than coming in today,
which is always nice
because I could use the extra space
and don't wanna get overwhelmed.
Just a quick video talking about some animals.
That's it. I'm Alex and thanks for watching.
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