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The Pictures I Promised
kuhlewulf
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Here is the herd, or at least most of it.
These are the real reasons why people don't break in to my house. The top pic is my Western Diamondback male, Fred. His mate Wilma is in the stump behind him. The lower pic is Isis, she's a sidewinder, and very pregnant.
Miss Benny, an 8 ft Burmese Python
Pancho & Lefty, A Ball Python and Red Tail Boa who have lived together all their lives.
Columbo & Woody, a Brazilian Red Tail, and a Hogg Island boa.
And Sweetie, another Ball Python. Shes bitten more people than all the others combined. I've never been bit in 15 years of snake handling.
And the one you've been waiting for, Shelby, the Bennets Wallaby currently living in my bathroom till shes placed in a home. Should I even get into my dogs and cats?
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!
These are the real reasons why people don't break in to my house. The top pic is my Western Diamondback male, Fred. His mate Wilma is in the stump behind him. The lower pic is Isis, she's a sidewinder, and very pregnant.
Miss Benny, an 8 ft Burmese Python
Pancho & Lefty, A Ball Python and Red Tail Boa who have lived together all their lives.
Columbo & Woody, a Brazilian Red Tail, and a Hogg Island boa.
And Sweetie, another Ball Python. Shes bitten more people than all the others combined. I've never been bit in 15 years of snake handling.
And the one you've been waiting for, Shelby, the Bennets Wallaby currently living in my bathroom till shes placed in a home. Should I even get into my dogs and cats?
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!
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Can you send one of those to my mother in-law for me?? Preferrably a rattler![:D]
,,,[;)]sod
(just kidding,,,I think)
BTW,I've caught several diamond backs over the years and tried to keep them,but have never been able to get them to eat.
Mice,rats,chicks,you name it.They wind up dead the next day but the snake never eats them.What's the secret?
BW
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Whats it like to take a visit to the pottie with a kangaroo in the bathroom?
Walte
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I'll be sure to shake it real good before he opens it. [}:)]
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Tools: The wallaby is to go back to the importer soon, He was in a sort of quarantine here. Made trips to the bathroom like a safari. Anyway, They normally retail for about $800-1200, but he'll sell it to me for $600, maybe less. I wonder if you can FedEx a wallaby?
Tazmutt: You gotta have a hunting license to posses native snakes. The captive born sidewinders will be exempt from that but as a precaution always have on anyway. Game & Fish can't tell the difference between wild caught and captive bred and will take all you stuff just in case.
To get rattlers to eat: Don't feed the for at least a month, keep a good heat lamp on them during the day, and cover the cage at night. They need normal day and night cycles. Then introduce the food, try and catch house Geckos, cover the cage (with the heat lamp on) and leave them alone for a few hours. If they still don't eat in two months let em go where you caught them. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A HUNTING LICENSE. THEY'LL TAKE YOUR GUNS, AND YOUR VEHICLE IF YOU DON'T.
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!
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Check your sources. I am aware of one human eaten by a reticulated python in the past 100 years, and one human killed with feeding attempted by an African rock python. I know of no authenticated record of a human eaten by a Burmese python, though a large one certainly has the potential to be dangerous, and there are records of pet keepers being killed by Burmese.
He Dog
Yes you are correct. But circumstancial evidence is what most of us rely on.
The three breeds I refer to are the Anaconda, Reticulated Python, And the Burmese Python.
I used to have a pic of a group of guys in a rice paddy standing around a dead guy and a dead snake. The snake was killed while trying to down the guy. Had his head and shoulders in the mouth when killed according to the story. Even in the black and white pic the markings were obvious Burmese. The head was an easy 10 inches across, body length should have been at least 20+ ft.
The fact that most of the individuals large enough to eat people are in third world countries doesn't lend itself to great record keeping. Legend and story is all we have to go on. My mother grew up in the old world Thailand, and has seen the monsters we only hear stories of. If they can take small livestock, people eating is no stretch of the imagination.
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!
He Dog
Yes, most of the "maneater" labels are conjecture based on a lot of "its possible" variables. I did see a program that theorized the only way a snake could eat a grown man was feet first since that would allow the shoulders to collapse in. But snakes rarely eat any way other than head first (although my boas try). While I doubt any snake could ingest a full grown white man, a skinny guy from __________ [:)]in the third world might not be too far fetched, and children are fair game. I generally don't feed anything larger than the animals body diameter, but my rattlers will eat things almost twice their body width. But, in all honestly I must defer and admit the three maneaters are such mainly in theory and not practice. With the encroachment of the civilized world on the Jungles these animals call home, I seriously doubt if any will grow to be big enough to be maneaters.
So He Dog, are you a Herp, or just very versed in general animal knowledge?
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!
Cool pics! The only time I am bothered by a snakes is when I can hear them rattle but don't see them, like in knee hi grass.
"Those who live by the sword get shot
by those who don't." [:D]
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This event took place near Iquitos, Peru in the Amazon headwaters.
Have a care with those rattlers, bites are no fun!
He Dog
My first thought was, oh good babies. Maybe I could get one. Then I came to my senses. If there is one thing that would cause a divorce at this point, it would be getting snakes again. I had diamondbacks when we first met. She hates snakes. After a while she talked me into getting rid of them. (Mostly because we were going traveling, and no one would take care of them)(I wonder why?) I am not sure how she put up with them as long as she did, now that I know how much she dislikes them. (No, make that hates them) I have always wanted to get an Albino Burmese Python. But she would have to be either dead or gone. One of the VERY few things we disagree on.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
R/
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Dave: the wallabys are a new pet rage in the U.S. This one was bought and then returned by a woman with more money than sense. They will tame and be about like a dog when raised right. Then get 2-3 feet tall, and eat horse food or veggies. They normally run 800-1200 bucks but I can get them for about $500-600.
James
Do your troops train with live cobras? ROYAL THAI ARMY DOES!