Landlord Finds 19 Tarantulas, 1 Python Left Behind by Tenant

[Robert59]

A Maine landlord has arranged for the rescue of 15 tarantulas and one python that had been left behind by a tenant.

https://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat...-19-tarantulas-1-python-left-behind-by-tenant

 

[CAKCy]

A Maine landlord has arranged for the rescue of 15 tarantulas and one python that had been left behind by a tenant.

https://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/articles/2021-09-03/landlord-finds-19-tarantulas-1-python-left-behind-by-tenant

My gratitude to the landlord and the authorities for their kindness and compassion in saving all the living beings that could be saved!

 

[Warrigal]

It's the tenant I am more worried about than the snake and the spiders.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Like CAKCy, I'm amazed the landlord just didn't buy a fly swatter, and poison. Cheers to him. And like, Warrigal, I wonder about the mental health of the former tenant.

 

[WhatInThe]

Never understood snakes as a pet. Probably somekind of status symbol to the tenant. POS won't even take his collection with him. Deadly pets left in a rental unit. Gee was the tenant leaving a message for the landlord?

Did they recently find a mountain lion/cougar in a Nyc apartment?

 

[Sunny]

I think it was a tiger.

 

[Patch]

I would have taken the snake, if they needed a home. Our son and I would have had a pet snake... not a python... if my wife would have permitted it. Not much different than having fish or a turtle or other reptiles.
The spiders. No way!!!! Still have scars from two recluse spider bites in 1960!! My mother would squeeze oodles of gunk out of them when I got home from school for days. Still hate any biting or stinging insect!!!!

 

[WheatenLover]

I wouldn't have taken any of them. My sons had a few tarantulas and garter snakes when they were young. I was afraid of all of them. I had planned to start out with a hermit crab, but inexplicably, the guy at the pet store wouldn't let me buy one. He said I wouldn't be the optimum owner. So I bought the kids what they actually wanted.

My brother has a lifelong friend nicknamed Snake. I don't even know if anyone remembers his real name. He and my brother were housemates for awhile. I went over to visit my brother and there were about 5 cages in the living room, each with a large scary snake in it. Like boa constrictors ... I don't know what the rest were. We stayed in the kitchen to talk after that.