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Posted by Fred Albury on September 30, 2002 at 09:54:09:
In Reply to: more on that trick... posted by Dean Alessandrin on September 30, 2002 at 07:25:56:
:Sorry, can't say I've had the misfortune of having one Dry eat another but...on the thread trick...
:I actually learned that While working with the king cobras at KY reptile zoo. I would take DOR racers and freeze them to kill any micro-nasties, then use cotton thread to sew a "racer nugget" onto a large rat and it worked great!
:today...my wc yellowtails get picky from time to time, but can never seem to refuse a chick, so I will sew a f/t chick onto a rat and it works like a charm!
For the record:
I have never had a Drymarchon try to eat another Drymarchon. I am VERY carefull about leaveing them alone together or placeing them near each other whilest it is feeding time.
BUT...this thread reminds me of a little story, so sit back, relax, pop a cold one, or drink some Grape Crush and listen as I unwind this macabre tale.........
STORYTIME
Many years ago, when I was younger and better looking(Hard to believe I know)(joke), I had kept and bred Eastern Indigos for several years. As a vendor at the local IRBA reptile shows, I often found myself answering the publics questions about these awesome serpents, which I gladly did answer.
At one particular show, in the Fall, a fellow vendor and Turtle enthusiasts par excellance came over to my booth and told me that he had "Finally made the plunge" I naturally assumed that he had finally put a ring on his truly hot girlfrinds finger(Some guys have all the luck, some guys get all the pain) I assumed this simply because enough time had gone by that it made sense to me that he would want to commit to her, and hell, if he didnt want to, I certainly would have!:)
So...back to our story......this individual came over to the booth, and proudly told me he had taken the plunge, and when I politely congratulated him for giving her the ring, he guffawed(fool) and told me that "No...I didnt give her a ring....I went and bought Eastern Indigos!"(Talkabout misplaced priorites)
Frankly .....I was shocked...as this guy was a Chelonian(Turtle) expert and snakes....any snake, let alone big messy snakes such as an Indigo seemed out of the realm of his scope of interests..
Then the plot thickened...........
I had assumed, it being fall, that he had bought 1.1 baby easterns. Well Folks...I was wrong. He was in a rush, which I see alot of today. He bought a pair of ADULT EASTERNS.
Yup....thats like never driving and jumping right into a Formula One Sports car. First time they defecated it must have kiled him:0
He also informed me that he was going to become a"Big Time Drymarchon Breeder" and that he was expecting to produce eggs this year.
(Why oh why do people think that it is so friggin easy to produce these things?)
"AND", he informed me , with an air of pompous superiority, "My pair is breeding as we speak, right now and I witnessed copulation!"
I GULPED and said"You left them alone while you are at this 2 day reptile show in San Diego?"
To which he said"Yes, and they are allready hooked up"
Turned out that the male was bigger than the female and he had left them since Sat night. I politely told him he was out of his friggin mind and that he was takeing chances. He told me that unlike mine his were "Well fed"(Is an indigo every truly THAT well fed?"
So after the show, we went our separate ways. I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head, no...not the area where the little voices stem from...rather below that, where my short term memory is stored, I think they call it the cerebral cortex or something........
Fast forward:
Now it is December, and I am a vendor at the last show of the year here on the west coast. I am setting up my booth, so that I can make big bucks for Christmas(LMAO) and Guess who walks up to me? Yup...its Joe Vendor and he has a sad, depressed look on his face. I assume his girlfriend has left him(Some guys get all the breaks, some guys do nothing but complain) and ask him so. He politely says no, that she has now moved in with him(Fred vomits)
Then he proceeds to tell me why he is so sad:
Turns out that when he got home from the last reptile show in fall,the one we both attended, the one where he told me how big of a splash he would make int he Drymarchon world,he checked on his beloved "INVESTMENT SNAKES" and found that he only had ONE!!
He checked the entire house couldnt find THE FEMALE and then realized that the male was looking pretty buffed and heavy. Like it might have eaten a.....mmmmmm..a......mmmm maybe a
FEMALE EASTERN INDIGO!!
He looked up at me with these big doe eyes, and said in apained voice" Boy, I really screwed up, I should have listened to you and had my girlfriend separate them"
AND, though I was sad
I SMILED
Shook my head
And said politely
"Now....let me give you some advice about
your girlfriend......
Lesson: NEVER EVER LEAVE DRYMARCHON ALONE FOR EXTENDED
PERIODS OF TIME UNMONITORED BY YOU.
*CHEERS*
FRED ALBURY
AZTEC REPTILES
P.S.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent in this story
All similarities to people that you kay know are merely coincidental and are not fact. The girlfriend later dumed this guy to marry a former Buddhist Monk. Man...I have NEVER wanted to convert to Buddhism so bad in my life. Oh well.....
