Thanks for advice - cribo eating F/T!!

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: I followed the advice several of you gave. Unfortunately my local supplier didn't come up with the rat pups as planned, so I got the smallest rat they had. The cribo went for the live rat - again, a tense moment as the rat put up quite a fight and I was sure the snake was going to lose an eye or something, but he didn't hardly get scratched. After he got the small rat down, I had a thawed medium rat ready to go, and wiggled that around as realistically as I could, and he hit that too! : One thing; this snake has no table manners. Whereas my pine, elaphe, and lampropeltis all methodically locate the rodent's head, and calmly swallow the rodent, the cribo chewed the hell out of it, bursting the abdomen and spewing innards all over, and balled up the rat and shoved it down his throat like a champion hot dog eater. I half expected it to belch after it got that rat down. LOL! : I guess, as messy as it was, this is the more pleasant side of the digestion process, and what's going to happen in the next day or two is the real unpleasant part. : Oh well, it'll be worth it to get this guy up around 10-12 pounds as he really is a very docile snake.

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