SUPER ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!

[reaperreptiles]

ok, so i went out tonight with my husband and son. I got home around 10. well in the 3 hours i was gone (i live with my parents...sadly) my mom decided she didnt want (2) 40 gallons in my room. so she took mr.tubbins put him in with toby and had the 40 gallon put into the basement. When i got home toby was chasing him around the cage. there both covered in popped scales, scrapes and minor cuts. im super !#$%^&* angry. i cleaned the scrapes and put on some sylvadine cream. mr.tubbins is traumatized. so i went out to target and grabbed myself a metal rack with two 175 gallon tubs. im going to put each of them into a tub with a light mounted on the wire shelf above. hopefully this will work until i get enough money for some boamasters, i luckily had a spare tub that i moved mr.tubbins into. i called my vet (thank god i have his personal cell number) and i described everything, he is going to come over tomorrow and take a quick look, he rocks. tomorrow i will go out and pick up some turf from lowes and remove all the aspen for better healing. no broken bones luckily(as far as i can see). all the scratched on mr.tubbins are on his tail and toby has some scrapes on her face were he fought back as much as he could but she's twice his size im so angry its not even funny. what makes this even worse is i now have a day to get all this crap in order before i leave for NC for a funeral. im so irritated that was by far the most disrespectful thing anyone could have done to me, move around and handle my animals without telling me and putting them in massive danger!!!! she has already killed 3 of my cresties, a nile monitor and a veiled chameleon (all over the past 6 years). AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH I COULD MOVE OUT!!!!!!!!!

[Fatal_S]

Does she understand what she did?? If she's harming your animals on a regular basis, send the animals to somewhere safe, no matter how much it hurts to let them go.

[Jeff]

Does she have mental issues? I'm not joking. I am seriously asking.

[James Wilson]

Does she have mental issues? I'm not joking. I am seriously asking.

I was wondering the same thing. She sounds like maybe she does not like the reptiles around, and is being passive agressive at their expense and yours. You might want to consider moving.

[Anderous]

it sounds like your mom needs help. it also sounds like you need to lock your room, and all your cages seperatlly. if it were me i would tell her if this ever happens again, im gonna torch your car you stupid *$%&*. I actually had to make my dad afraid of me before he would show me any respect at all. i feel your pain.

[James Wilson]

it sounds like your mom needs help. it also sounds like you need to lock your room, and all your cages seperatlly. if it were me i would tell her if this ever happens again, im gonna torch your car you stupid *$%&*. I actually had to make my dad afraid of me before he would show me any respect at all. i feel your pain.

Lets not get too carried away now. While we are all very upset over this situation, there is no need to instigate threats, violence, verbal abuse or the threat of any of these things. She does live in her parents home. Obviously, there are certain concessions that need to be made in situations like this. The simple fact is this if her mother actually does not want them around then there is not much else to do, except to either find someone to house them, or move out. I hope that things work out for the best.

[Coomassie]

I am soooo sorry. While I know my mom would never do this, I'm glad I waited to get my reptiles until after I moved out. You should seriously have a conversation with your mom about it though.

[Roheryn]

Wow, I have no words to describe this... Seems to me like your mother has some issues. I would lock your door with the heaviest lock I could find if I were you. Hope the animals are okay this time....

[reaperreptiles]

Ok well my animals are ok, vet did a checkup and all is well. I created a tub setup that I really like and found a way to lock it. My husband started a massive argument so we have1 month to move out, kinda happy. Im in NC so when I get back I'll post up some pics of the rack setup I built, my skinks seem to be happier and I put them on turf for better healing. Im happy with it until I save up enough for some boamasters. My mom and sister are thick headed and disrespectful when it comes to my animals
. I used to have 30-40 animals now I have 6 BC I wanted to be respectful and not crowd her home. But all is well and I know have locks on everything.

[cguarino30]

glad to hear that your blueys are doing well. I think moving will be the best in the end. I was in a similar living situation that required some unfortunate downsizing, and now that I have my own home (with my wife and kids, of course) I have started rebuilding my collections and am much happier. Both the wife and the kids know not to mess with "daddy's room" haha.

[Hopeful_Herper]

wow 0_o

How did she kill the other animals, particularly the nile monitor?

[xxmonitorlizardxx]

wow 0_o

How did she kill the other animals, particularly the nile monitor?

That's what I was wondering O_O that's a 6ft big mean cheap lizard.

[reaperreptiles]

Well the Nile monitor, had him in a huge setup half water half land. He was only about 2 ft long. She opened the cage saw nothing in it and left it open. Found him three days later frozen in the basement. She left the cage open on my cresties, they escaped and were killed by her dog. There have been a few other animals like fish and what not too.

[ExtremeJustin]

It sounds like you did the right thing with the cage locks. Between those past incidents and what just happens with the BTSs I wouldn't let her have unsupervised accesss to them. It's sad because my kids were able to take our BTS out of his tank and not get him killed since they were in 1st grade or so. The only thing is that if the 40 gallons aren't weighted down enough she could try to move them with the skinks in them

Well the Nile monitor, had him in a huge setup half water half land. He was only about 2 ft long. She opened the cage saw nothing in it and left it open. Found him three days later frozen in the basement. She left the cage open on my cresties, they escaped and were killed by her dog. There have been a few other animals like fish and what not too.

[Katrina]

it sounds like your mom needs help. it also sounds like you need to lock your room, and all your cages seperatlly. if it were me i would tell her if this ever happens again, im gonna torch your car you stupid *$%&*. I actually had to make my dad afraid of me before he would show me any respect at all. i feel your pain.

Please do not post this kind of thing in future - the forum does not condone violence or making people afraid and we do not want to see advice like this being given. There is always a better way to deal with a situation. In this case, the OP is living in her mother's house. Because having reptiles while living with her mother has caused problems in past (and reptiles have died as a result), perhaps she should have waited until moving out before acquiring more or else invested in locks earlier.

Either way, it seems like lessons have been learned and fortunately the BTS were not harmed.

Fear and respect are very different things.

[nakerz_loves_bts]

You could have padlocked all the enclosures in a locked room you only have the key to. I would have raged like crazy at her...

[Spindown]

i'm glad your skinks are ok! hopefully things will be better after you move. I personally cant wait to move, i have roomie whose crested gecko i have to watch him killing because he starves it X_X...i feed it when i can but its ridiculous. Some people should either not be around animals/not have animals...