Same here - and a bizarre tale of theft and recovery in Canada!......

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Posted by Paul @ Animals for Education on August 24, 2001 at 23:07:20:

In Reply to: Its fairly common posted by Matt on August 24, 2001 at 20:51:06:

...Years ago, I had an adult female (blue/black-eyed) Leucistic that had a few small flecks of orange. At one point, I was burglarized and the number and location of these flecks were used to help identify and subsequently recover my stolen serpent. The culprit tried to convince the Ontario Provincial Police (our Canadian equivalent of American State Troopers) that he had made a sojourn to Texas where the snake must have crawled into his car. According to him, when he returned to Canada he discovered the snake crawling out of his automobile and decided to keep it as a pet. Canadian law enforcement is not normally as 'militant' as its' American counterparts and I was quite surprised that a judge granted the police a night-time search warrant (highly unusual - even in drug raids, so the cops told me!) and asked that I accompany them in order to identify my animal. I got her back and she successfully bred with a heterozygous male two years in a row!

The 'suspect' was arrested, released and ordered to appear for court. He was a no-show and fled the New World to return to his British homeland - all because of a Leucistic Texas Ratsnake! LOL

- gatorboy

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: ...Years ago, I had an adult female (blue/black-eyed) Leucistic that had a few small flecks of orange. At one point, I was burglarized and the number and location of these flecks were used to help identify and subsequently recover my stolen serpent. The culprit tried to convince the Ontario Provincial Police (our Canadian equivalent of American State Troopers) that he had made a sojourn to Texas where the snake must have crawled into his car. According to him, when he returned to Canada he discovered the snake crawling out of his automobile and decided to keep it as a pet. Canadian law enforcement is not normally as 'militant' as its' American counterparts and I was quite surprised that a judge granted the police a night-time search warrant (highly unusual - even in drug raids, so the cops told me!) and asked that I accompany them in order to identify my animal. I got her back and she successfully bred with a heterozygous male two years in a row! : The 'suspect' was arrested, released and ordered to appear for court. He was a no-show and fled the New World to return to his British homeland - all because of a Leucistic Texas Ratsnake! LOL : - gatorboy

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