So I lost my 5ft Python and found her at GC..

[58kites]

An old friend of mine had a 55 gallon aquarium set up as a house for several rattlesnakes and they were getting out of it all the time. It was always creepy to go over there and him tell us one (or more) of his pets were loose in the house.

That's pretty hardcore, rattlesnakes make lousy pets they're kinda grumpy!!
I have to kill a big one every couple of years.
When the smaller ones turn up in our back yard I catch them and haul them a mile away,
when a big one shows up, he's gotta die....don't wan't dogs getting bit.

 

[Joebone]

That's pretty hardcore, rattlesnakes make lousy pets they're kinda grumpy!!
I have to kill a big one every couple of years.
When the smaller ones turn up in our back yard I catch them and haul them a mile away,
when a big one shows up, he's gotta die....don't wan't dogs getting bit.

The little ones can be more of a hazard - when they bite, they don't know to release and therefore inject all of their venom...or so I'm told...sort of like teenagers...

 

[Wiremessiah]

I saw a video one time of a guy cleaning the pots on an amp head. When he opened up the head there was an abandoned rat nest in the corner. Maybe Cornflake was looking for food and wound up in your cab?

How the hell did you sleep knowing that thing could have been lurking around in your apartment?

I lived at this party house once when I first moved to CA. We had a rat problem, and they were dying in the walls, one crawled on my face when i was sleeping. At one point one died somewhere, but we couldn't find the source of the smell, though it was strong in the kitchen. Eventually it went away. A few months later, we got the stove/oven fixed and cleaned, and the repairman said he found rat bones right underneath the stove top. Everything we had cooked in the oven for months was flavored with roasted rat.

 

[58kites]

The little ones can be more of a hazard - when they bite, they don't know to release and therefore inject all of their venom...or so I'm told...sort of like teenagers...

That is true, but their striking range is very short compared to a six or seven footer.
I can catch a small one in a empty drywall mud bucket pretty easily, don't really want to try that trick with a big one.
When the dog circles a big one and starts barking, the dog is within striking range.
I use a pole type tree trimmer to take care of them, can clip their heads off from 10 feet away.
Still makes me nervous because it's usually night time when they turn up, harder to do the job when visibility is poor.

 

[Ellery]

Yeah, in Florida where there is a growing population of several large snake species, and lizard species...none good for the balance of that ecosystem.
I have a friend who had a Ball Python that he fed live rats to.
He was in a hurry to go to a gig one night and tossed the rat in the enclosure and left for the gig.
When he got back, the rat was still alive and had gnawed a few very large holes in the snake, like two inches in diameter, the snake did not die but never really recovered, so he killed after several months.
I personally could never become attached to a reptile, to me it would be like becoming friends with a piece of furniture.
I obviously favor the domestic dog over other pets.
The domestic dog is the only wild animal that ever chose us to live with domestically.
I think all exotic pets are prisoners, not pets.
I hope saying that has not offended anyone personally.

The cats chose us too! Maybe for different reasons, and under different terms, but they still did!
And as a former snake owner, I was emotionally attached to them, but always understood that the only reason they never bit me was because I was too big to swallow.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I saw a video one time of a guy cleaning the pots on an amp head. When he opened up the head there was an abandoned rat nest in the corner. Maybe Cornflake was looking for food and wound up in your cab?

How the hell did you sleep knowing that thing could have been lurking around in your apartment?

On a hi fi amp I thought it was odd that the headphone socket was blocked with something. A grub fell out, and then an angry hornet (uncommon in the UK) appeared from somewhere in my room and I fled.

This is less scary than the time I saw a wasp asleep in the gusset of the underpants I was just putting on. But that has no musical gear content.

 

[58kites]

The cats chose us too! Maybe for different reasons, and under different terms, but they still did

I know we have had domestic cats for around 12,000 years, I think they are still only partially domesticated.
They did start coming around when humans began to have stores of grain.
I think it's closer to say they were a predator who came for easy abundant prey in our villages and they've never left, and we decided maybe it was good thing.
Dogs started begging for food from us right out of our hands when we still sat around campfires eating our kill, I see it as a much more voluntary domestication.
And I think it was not too much later they tagged along in the hunt and helped us.
They chose to sleep by our warm campfires and eventually sleep snuggled right next to us ...we got watchdog/security alarm services in that deal.
Cats provide a service, but it's purely by accident that they kill our vermin as a service, they don't do it for us, domestic cats they still kill for sport and for food, just like wild cats.
I think pretty much every other pet than a cat or dog is a prisoner.

 

[Rugmaster]

If you had of left the snake in the cab, they could have sold it for extra to someone in an Alice Cooper tribute band.

 

[hrodbert696]

Well it wasn't the first time she's gotten out! I was actually hoping she would crawl in bed with me so I could find her!

Some people use this word "hoping" in different ways than other people...

 

[bongostealth]

I'm sure GC would have honored their money back guarantee to the next buyer of the app with the python should she have stayed in the amp. "Umm.. I need to return this python. It seems to eat all of my pedals. I would like to request a trade for a cobra in an acoustic guitar."

 

[baileyboy]

I've had a ball python for the last 5 years. Her name is Cornflake. She got out of her cage about 2 weeks ago and I could not find her ANYWHERE in my apartment. I had given up hope finding her and figured she'd pop up in one of my neighbors toilets

Fast forward to last night. I went to Guitar Center to trade in a Markbass traveler 15 cab for a UA apollo twin. We did the trade in and I was about to check out when something caught my eye in the port on the back...


Cornflake was INSIDE the cabinet! She had made her way into the cab and would not budge. We took the speaker out and after a 30 minute struggle, removed her. All of this happened in the middle of GC.

My roommate, who is a manager at GC, got a few pics on her potato quality phone.

Great story!

 

[Jeff Elkins]

This is less scary than the time I saw a wasp asleep in the gusset of the underpants I was just putting on.

Agreed. Your post gave me the shivers. I don't kill spiders if I can help it, and I keep honeybees, but I super-duper hate wasps and yellow-jackets.

 

[Frederiek]

It's like a surprise egg for bass players

 

[Pirate Captain]

Rrrrriver Bottom Nightmare Band!

 

[ThuzzleFump]

I've had a ball python for the last 5 years. Her name is Cornflake. She got out of her cage about 2 weeks ago and I could not find her ANYWHERE in my apartment. I had given up hope finding her and figured she'd pop up in one of my neighbors toilets
...

My roommate, who is a manager at GC, got a few pics on her potato quality phone.

Now *THIS* is a story. Wow!

 

[ThuzzleFump]

Purge it with fire.

Ball python is the fluffy kitten of the snek world.

 

[Ti-Ron]

Many years ago my college roommate and I had an 8-foot python, named Connie Lingus, who lived in our dorm room with us. Connie got out one day. We couldn't find her for about three days until she came up out of one of the shower drains in the communal shower room down the hall. The guy who was in the shower at the time was a bit upset.

Funny name for a snake!

 

[ThuzzleFump]

Funny name for a snake!

Yeah, mine is called "Coilus Interruptus."

 

[Snibborwocky]

BEST GC STORY EVER.

 

[guy n. cognito]

Ball python is the fluffy kitten of the snek world.

That's why I didn't suggest the nuclear option.