Sure looks like that could be a 9' Boa to me. However, I for one am really not trying to nit pick but I have been raising rats for about eight years. We have produced hundreds of thousands of rats. I used to buy all the excess rats from a company in Wisconsin more than fifteen years ago now. I would buy 7000 - 8000 mice per week and about 1000 rats per week. They would raise some especially large ones just for fun to see how big they could get them. The largest one they ever raised was bigger than I have ever done personally myself. This rat weighed 1075 grams or about 2 lbs. 6 oz. I have not seen a 2 lb. rat before or since. I kept this rat in my freezer for years showing it to folks that stopped buy like a trophy. Bigger by far that anything I have raised or had ever seen.

It is certainly possible there is a strain of rats out there that get a whole lot bigger than I have seen but I have not heard of them. I think it's more likely the place where you get them may be exaggerating or guessing the rats weight much higher than reality.

Great looking Boa too by the way!
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• a few pics of my 9 footer eating. - jeffyoung5521, Sun Apr 22 18:20:08 2007
• RE: a few pics of my 9 footer eating. - maizeysdad, Sun Apr 22 18:30:03 2007
• ...definitley not 9' - mavericksdad, Mon Apr 23 14:43:13 2007
• RE: a few pics of my 9 footer eating. - ajfreptiles, Sun Apr 22 22:32:41 2007
• RE: a few pics of my 9 footer eating. - jeffyoung5521, Mon Apr 23 17:46:52 2007
• a 3 pound rat Hmmmm . . . - Slithering_Serpents, Tue Apr 24 00:42:39 2007
• yes a 3lbs rat!!! - jeffyoung5521, Tue Apr 24 08:49:55 2007
• RE: yes a 3lbs rat!!! - Slithering_Serpents, Wed Apr 25 12:41:58 2007
• RE: yes a 3lbs rat!!! - jeffyoung5521, Wed Apr 25 12:50:16 2007
• Hey Jeff... - boaphile, Sat May 5 18:20:08 2007