Well, some of you probably thought I died.....and surely some have wished it were so......but I'm still here. I won't yet proclaim that I'm back. This may just be a brief visit. Been a crazy year but the end of my school year is in sight so relief is ahead. The boas are driving me further into madness this year. Notice I said further. I'm not sure what I'm going to get this year if much at all. However, I did get an interesting litter on Thursday afternoon to start off my season on a good note.

Jungles het for Squaretail are here. 15 babies and 3 unfertilized. On first inspection, it looks like 11 or 12 are carrying the Jungle trait. Both traits have good track records regarding the three C's: clean, color, & contrast. I'm liking what I see and I look forward to seeing what happens when the Squaretail trait is homozygous. How will the tendency for thin, connected dorsal saddles play out with the Jungle trait? Stay tuned. Oh, I almost forgot to mention. The babies have white tipped tongues. Yep. If you don't look closely or don't have a good contrasting background, it appears that their tongues lack forks but if you view on a good background you see what is going on. Neat. One photo here and then lots more at the link below. Have a super Saturday night but be safe out there.



More details and photos can be found here:

Baby Photos

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• New members of the household...... - gray, Sat May 19 16:02:30 2007
• RE: New members of the household...... - ChrisGilbert, Sat May 19 16:09:12 2007
• Congrats!!!!! - ChadHorne, Sat May 19 20:23:40 2007
• RE: New members of the household...... - ajfreptiles, Sat May 19 20:34:28 2007
• RE: New members of the household...... - ABCC, Sat May 19 22:02:00 2007
• Crazy beautiful! Congrats..... - Sojourner, Sat May 19 22:30:31 2007
• And so it continues..... - drimes, Sat May 19 22:49:19 2007
• That is an awesome litter regardless - kirby, Sat May 19 22:54:23 2007
• RE: New members of the household...... - Ophidia_Junkie, Sun May 20 06:25:03 2007
• Major Congrats!!! - RyanHomsey, Sun May 20 07:42:05 2007
• RE: New members of the household...... - Junglestruck, Sun May 20 10:57:18 2007
• Awesome combination... - sdi, Sun May 20 12:58:14 2007
• RE: New members of the household...... - Jeremy Stone, Mon May 21 21:33:04 2007