Poor I.D skills..

[Inkage]

I tattoo this guy that knocks around with wires..he's always going on about these Diamonds & such that he has to remove ect ect... Yesterday he's sitting there ranting on & shows me a photo on his phone of a snake that he'd been called out to pick up & says ''I've got no idea what it is man, i cant work it out, it has weird scales on its head & its white'' I got a bit excited thinking he'd found something cool.. He shows me... snow corn.. Kinda baffles me that he does this kind of work not really knowing a lot about anything.. this is the second time he's shown me ''weird snakes'' the first was a rainbow boa that was in a lady's outside dunny, he said it was a water python morph..lol

 

[chondrogreen]

Umm not many keepers study exotic species.
Alot of exotics I wouldn't have a clue about either and I have been keeping for approx 30 years.
Just no interest in them so I have never bothered reading or looking at pics. BTW I too was a relocator for wires

 

[Inkage]

I'd think if you're going to go around picking up snakes you should have at least a basic knowledge of what COULD be there?

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

Can you post the pics here?

 

[Inkage]

When he drops in again i'll grab them off him.

 

[chondrogreen]

I'd think if you're going to go around picking up snakes you should have at least a basic knowledge of what COULD be there?

Well they SHOULDN'T be here, hence why we are not trained for exotic species.
Is he a Reptile keeper? or just a person that joined wires randomly? I ask because anyone can do a wires course and be trained to removed snakes (dosn't mean they can I.D them though)

 

[Inkage]

True they shouldn't be here..But they are..In massive numbers & in a range of species, he has a few things hasn't been in it long though.. I just assumed that maybe wires would cover such things

 

[ShadowDragon]

Gotta love gee up accounts :lol:

 

[chondrogreen]

Wires teaches you to treat all snakes like hots, and also has a basic reptile course.
You will learn the difference between a RBBS & a carpet python lol, but thats about it.

My division caught alot of exotics over the years, and even found an albino RBBS

 

[Inkage]

Ah ok, do they have any ''special'' department or anything that deals with it? or the wires guys just wizz them off to the vet for euthanasia?

 

[moosenoose]

:lol: ....did he relocate it to a suitable area?? :lol: :lol:

 

[Inkage]

Ha.. Who knows matey.

 

[Jacquie]

I am in WIRES and have personally picked up a few corns over the time and know of others from our branch. They are usually taken straight to a vet and euthanased or the carer does it themselves. I picked up a carpet from Buxton about a month ago (picture attached) that can't be released because it "shouldn't" be here either. I am waiting for it to recover from a nasty wound then it will be handed over to a herp society.

 

[Pythonking]

Umm not many keepers study exotic species.
Alot of exotics I wouldn't have a clue about either and I have been keeping for approx 30 years.
Just no interest in them so I have never bothered reading or looking at pics. BTW I too was a relocator for wires

I'm not interested to say the least in exotics but being a keeper for 7 years I know what are native and what aren't although I have to admit I don't know all of them and couldn't give a rats tail about them but I would say I could identify that something which is not native.

 

[chondrogreen]

I'm not interested to say the least in exotics but being a keeper for 7 years I know what are native and what aren't although I have to admit I don't know all of them and couldn't give a rats tail about them but I would say I could identify that something which is not native.

That is why I asked if he was a keeper or just somebody that joined wires with no previous involvement with Herps