It was a picky python. Only live brown short haired hamsters would do. Latter I found out that ball pythons are nervous critters that can go a year without eating.
If you go out into the woods today you'd better go in disguise...
I've never heard of a snake being picky before. Mine was teeny and ate pinky mice, he looooved them, once mistook someone's finger for one. Otherwise was very happy with whatever I gave him, which was usually frozen pinkies because the idea of them being alive was just too much for me.
He tried other rodents and long-haired hamsters without success. At work we would start hatchlings with live pinky mice until we were satisfied that they had figured out mice = food, then we would wean them onto dead mice. Less stress for the mice and safer for the snakes.
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Date: 2009-03-04 03:52 am (UTC)Cool! I liked that.
Date: 2009-03-04 04:21 am (UTC)Those cats rap fast, I can't grasp that. All them big words, I dun find I misheard. I didn't understand the significance of the hamster prize either.
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Date: 2009-03-04 05:19 pm (UTC)'cause they're yummy little teddy bears
Date: 2009-03-04 07:59 pm (UTC)If you go out into the woods today
you'd better go in disguise...
Re: 'cause they're yummy little teddy bears
Date: 2009-03-04 08:22 pm (UTC)Learn new things every day!
Re: cause they're &%#39! little teddy bears X-D
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