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sherrielouise
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
36 Posts |
 Posted - 22/08/2012 : 15:37:53
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Large well known pet shop in the north west were I get my rats from has started selling baby Burmese pythons for £60!
Who in their right mind would want one of them?didn't think for one minute that would even be legal! |
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GMac
Grumpy scots admin
United Kingdom
1152 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 15:45:16
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| why would you think it would be illegal, burms are very popular snakes to be kept. |
 
Royals, Corns, Boa, Kings, Hoggy, Ratsnakes
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Fezza
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1063 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 16:35:01
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| They can be real beauties as well, the caramel albino is wicked looking |
1.0.0 normal royal
1.0.0 mojave royal
1.0.0 pastel enchi royal
0.1.0 cinnamon royal
0.1.0 pewter royal
0.1.0 genetic stripe royal
0.1.0 lesser goblin royal
0.1.0 phantom royal
0.1.0 Columbian rainbow boa
0.0.1 aru x jaya GTP
0.1.0 bredli
1.0.0 trans pecos rat snake
1.0.0 fat black cat
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Kelfezond
The bearded one
United Kingdom
4803 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 17:18:36
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| Plenty of our members have burmese pythons, they're one of the tamest snakes to get and make brilliant pets. :) |
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Danno91
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
521 Posts |
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blackskull
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1278 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 17:51:46
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| they are on my list of future snakes but only when i have a dedicated snake room so a few years away |
1.1 normal royal, sully, silver
0.1 pinstripe royal, penny
1.1 pastel royal, lars, clover
0.1 lesser royal, serenity
0.1 black pastel royal, betty
0.1 mojave royal, mavis
0.1 normal het clown
1.0 pastel het clown
1.0 nuclear, ned
1.0 super phantom
1.0 childrens python, myles
0.1 hog island boa
0.1 sonoran x boa, grace
0.0.1 mack snow leopard gecko, munchkin
4.1 cats, stan, dave, marble, binx, daisy
4.1 rabbits, mol, ted, bill, spud, alice
0.1 crazy cat/bunny lady of bridgwater, lucy |
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badwool
Sub Adult
658 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 18:59:07
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| why would they not be legal? |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
5008 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 19:18:25
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| Burmese Pythons and the even bigger Reticulated Python and the even bigger Anaconda are not classed as DWA in the UK and can be freely traded and kept by anyone. They can make very good pets but their size and strength does need to be understood before buying a cute little baby snake as it will be longer than you are tall in a year or so. Plenty of baffoons do buy them and then find they cant cope with it but the vast majority of them are owned and looked after by people very capable of doing so. I would love a Reticulated Python, they are super intelligent but just too huge for me to ever be able to accommodate one without dedicating a room to my snakes. Maybe one day when I own a mansion I wont mind devoting the North wing to a Retic. |
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sherrielouise
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
36 Posts |
Posted - 22/08/2012 : 22:05:32
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| I suppose with watching programs like python hunters etc I just presumed they would be difficult to get hold of because I presumed no one would want them! Gotta admit they are beautiful though and would take a lot of care. |
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austin_89
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1248 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 06:12:22
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| Can I ask which pet shop? This interests me :) |
1.1.0 Normal Royal Pythons... Kane (CF11) + Frankie (CB11)
1.0.0 Spider Royal Python (CB13)
1.0.0 100% het kahl albino boa Dexter (CB13)
1.0.0 Butter Corn...
0.1.0 Snow Corn... Alice
0.1.0 Red Harlequin Crested Gecko... Charlie
0.1.0 Albino Leopard Gecko... Cleo
1.1.0 African Green Mantis
1.0.0 Staffy... Alfie
1.1.0 Cats... Ebony and DK
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boomslang
Old Royal - I Post too much!
United Kingdom
2025 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 16:28:50
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Plenty of baffoons do buy them and then find they cant cope
This  The prices being so low attracts even more baffoons. |
1.0.0 pinstripe Royal Python
1.0.0 Bumblebee Royal Python
1.0.0 Normal corn
1.0.0 Extreme red Hognose
0.1.0 Extreme red tiger Hognose
1.1.0 yemen chameleons
1.0.0 Piebald yemen
1.0.0 Tamatave panther
1.0.0 Quadricornis
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austin_89
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1248 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 17:11:38
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| I've never seen em so cheap. I've managed to talk my girlfriend into letting me spend a couple of hundred on one :) |
1.1.0 Normal Royal Pythons... Kane (CF11) + Frankie (CB11)
1.0.0 Spider Royal Python (CB13)
1.0.0 100% het kahl albino boa Dexter (CB13)
1.0.0 Butter Corn...
0.1.0 Snow Corn... Alice
0.1.0 Red Harlequin Crested Gecko... Charlie
0.1.0 Albino Leopard Gecko... Cleo
1.1.0 African Green Mantis
1.0.0 Staffy... Alfie
1.1.0 Cats... Ebony and DK
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austin_89
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1248 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 17:13:35
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| Ive never seen em so low. I've managed to talk my girlfriend into letting me spend a few hundred on one :) |
1.1.0 Normal Royal Pythons... Kane (CF11) + Frankie (CB11)
1.0.0 Spider Royal Python (CB13)
1.0.0 100% het kahl albino boa Dexter (CB13)
1.0.0 Butter Corn...
0.1.0 Snow Corn... Alice
0.1.0 Red Harlequin Crested Gecko... Charlie
0.1.0 Albino Leopard Gecko... Cleo
1.1.0 African Green Mantis
1.0.0 Staffy... Alfie
1.1.0 Cats... Ebony and DK
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sherrielouise
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
36 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 19:51:25
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| It's Dave's aquarium in Bolton. |
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Kelfezond
The bearded one
United Kingdom
4803 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 19:58:24
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| Hope it's a strong swimmer ^^ |
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rockroyal
Yearling
United Kingdom
470 Posts |
Posted - 23/08/2012 : 20:47:17
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| I've seen them for £100 and they were albino to I would love one but I'm very tuned into the fact that when adult they need BIG vivs and big feeds plus I don't have anyone I can call on if I need a hand. Some people just brush aside this is why so many end up in rescue centre's |
3.1.0 royal python
2.0.0 corn snake
0.1.0 western hognose
0.1.0 bci
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acd1984
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
687 Posts |
Posted - 26/08/2012 : 19:34:44
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| Burns are awesome and I want one but they are too big. When I asked the reptile room fir a price of a dwarf burn they said it would be 800 quid a big increase from the normal sized burms |
1.0.0 Lesser - Helios
2.0.0 Normal - George & Kairo
1.0.0 Mojave - Bolt
0.1.0 Mojave - Roxi
1.0.0 Leopard Gecko - Leo
0.0.1 Crocodile gecko - Pheonix
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