Ups live animal shipping help

[deranged chipmunk]

While I don't have experience shipping frogs, I do have quite a bit of experience shipping dwarf freshwater shrimp, some of which were more delicate than frogs to ship. It is a royal p.i.t.a. to ship live animals. A lot of things can go wrong g and end up costing you a small fortune. Lost packages, poor handling, ect. If my wife hadn't killed my shrimp population, I would have stopped shipping and only sold locally . If I had done that from the start, my wallet would have been a lot thicker....lol

[deranged chipmunk]

it just dawned on me. the best person to speak to on the forum about shipping frogs is mike (mikesfrogs). he's been breeding, selling and shipping phatties for quite some time. I'm sure he could give you some insight into it.

[arielgasca420]

Mike helped me with shipping when I needed to ship my pacman. I made sure there was moist paper towels in the plastic container and that it was packed snug with foam and newspaper. to keep the temp up I used a 10 hour hand warmer found in the camping section at walmart. I did not put the warmer directly under the plastic container. I put it more off to the side and put a layer of newspaper in between. Mike was fortunately close to me but not close enough to drive to.
You want to make sure you right "fragile" and "this side up" with an arrow. I was advised not to write "live animal" on the box.
The thing that makes this all successful is timing and communication. I was in constant contact with mike from the moment I left to UPS store and he sent me a text the first thing when he picked up the frog. I dropped the frog off at 5pm. you want to drop the frog off as late as possible since the warmers only last 10 hours.
Keep all your messages in case something goes wrong. take pictures. document everything.