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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• newspaper eating Boa??? - Hissenia, Sat Dec 8 00:06:25 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - forest, Sat Dec 8 05:53:57 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - Hissenia, Sat Dec 8 13:38:44 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - forest, Sun Dec 9 06:58:12 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - TnK, Sun Dec 9 07:21:34 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - Hissenia, Sun Dec 9 17:20:22 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - JaredHorenstein, Sun Dec 9 13:09:03 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - Hissenia, Sun Dec 9 17:18:01 2007
• RE: newspaper eating Boa??? - iamsnakeshack, Mon Dec 10 07:51:22 2007