Well one year I was walking by the cages of some paired boas and I heard a loud thump against the cage! I quickly rushed over to find the two snakes locked at the mouth.! Originally I thought the big female was trying to attack the male and tried to seperate them with no luck. So I pulled them both out and immersed them in water thinking that would work with no luck. I kept tugging at the female but then I noticed the male kept wrapping around her neck so it was him that was attacking her! It took a good 30 minutes to get them apart with nasty popping noises from the mouth and teeth it was tough to do but I got them both apart and they turned out ok. The worst breeding mishap was with a pair of papuan pythons. I had the male papuan python for about 10 years when this female decided he was lunch of course I didnt see it happen but it was quite sickening to say the least he was a good snake. On another occasion I was putting in a male arabesque boa with a female and she turned around and hammered him, luckily I had him on a hook so she only got the top half of him with her lower jaw hitting the hook she let go and the little guy freaked out. But she came all the way across the cage, I was shocked as that had never happened before. But when you breed boas long enough all kinds of weird things happen!

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• Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - senorsnake, Sun Jul 23 03:03:42 2006
• Could either of them. . . - Morgans Boas, Sun Jul 23 04:50:47 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - vcaruso15, Sun Jul 23 10:22:45 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - bthacker, Sun Jul 23 11:00:04 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - senorsnake, Sun Jul 23 12:57:50 2006
• HOPEFULLY THEY WERE NOT 18 MONTH OLD.... - millenniummorphs, Sun Jul 23 13:03:46 2006
• We'll leave that up to you! LOL...... - bthacker, Sun Jul 23 13:17:34 2006
• RE: HOPEFULLY THEY WERE NOT 18 MONTH OLD.... - senorsnake, Sun Jul 23 13:21:31 2006
• RE: HOPEFULLY THEY WERE NOT 18 MONTH OLD.... - millenniummorphs, Sun Jul 23 17:27:30 2006
• Happened to me last year - Sloas, Sun Jul 23 20:34:18 2006
• RE: Happened to me last year - senorsnake, Mon Jul 24 00:51:40 2006
• RE: Happened to me last year - PastelDream, Mon Jul 24 02:18:40 2006
• RE: Happened to me last year - Sloas, Tue Jul 25 23:38:18 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - PastelDream, Mon Jul 24 02:09:27 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - senorsnake, Mon Jul 24 13:53:03 2006
• Yes this has happened to me as well.... - STUART, Mon Jul 24 13:18:49 2006
• RE: Yes this has happened to me as well.... - senorsnake, Mon Jul 24 13:39:21 2006
• RE: Yes this has happened to me as well.... - snakehorse, Tue Jul 25 12:22:59 2006