sad..and really bad luck

[kiwifella]

So i decided to purchase a breeding pair of scaleys the other day and didnt quite finish the enclosure i was building them so thought i would just leave them in the cage i picked them up in over night, so i put them on the bench and off to bed i go...in the morning i wake up to 1 bird on the perch and at the bottom of the cage a snake wif a very full belly..He somehow got in my house and into the cage and got 1 of the birds and was to fat to get back out the cage..so yer not happy

[expressmailtome]

I am very sorry for your loss. Have you had problems with snakes before?

Matt

[kiwifella]

na thats the first 1 in the house we have had a couple outside but dats over a few years so yer bit of a bugger

[mmr]

where do you live? How did it get up on the bench?

[kiwifella]

Australia and ahh it prob climbed up ther

[perchingbird]

Snakes can get quite a few places, that's just what they do.

Kiwi, is the enclosure you are building "snake proofed" at all? That fellow might hang around for a bit.

[Merlie]

What is a Scaley??

[Andie]

That is sad and rotten luck.

We had a massive python come in one night when we left the door open and it had a nap in out pantry. We didn't want to hurt it so we sprinkled flour around to see that it actually did go back outside.

Merlie, A scaley is a type of lorikeet. Smaller and a little more sane than a rainbow lorikeet. Very pretty.

[LovelySydney]

yikes!! Sorry about your loss.

[FloorCandy]

There's a story about that happening at the pet shop I used to work at. It happened before my time, so I did not see it personally. They had a large friendly Macaw for a long time, several years I believe, and one morning they came in and found no bird in the cage, but a huge python, I believe a retic or a burmese curled up in the bottom of the cage with a large lump. Apparently it had escaped as a baby, and lived off of rats and mice in the attic. I believe they found large shed skins in the attic at some point later in time. Everyone was devastated. I hear it is not uncommon for snakes to come out of hiding to try to get to our domestic pet birds. I'm sorry for your loss.