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newspaper eating Boa???

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Posted by: Hissenia at Sat Dec 8 00:06:25 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Hissenia ]  
   

I had been using newspaper as a substrate for my 5 year old BCI. I feed F/T jumbo rats to him. I checked on my Boa about 1 hour after feeding and I found 4 or 5 sheets of newspaper about half way down my Boas throat. The paper was completely flat when he started eating. I quickly grabbed the end of the paper and held his neck till we worked it out. This is what was left of the paper.

Any body else have this problem? I dont know why he tryed to eat his paper. Im thinking about switching to Aspen shavings.





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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

   

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