I don't disagree but I was specifically posing the question: when you get a snake to eat and breed during winter, what have you done? Have you supported what that snake wanted to do? Or have you broken the instinct that that snake naturally has?

I suspect it varies from idividual to individual, especially among wide ranging species. If you take a zonata from 6,000 feet in the Sierras, that lives in a shady north facing canyon and get it to feed and breed in winter, you have probably broken it's natural instinct. Or at least encouraged a behavior that is more rare for that population. If you take a zonata from a south facing slope at 100 feet elevation in Malibu Canyon and get it to feed and breed during winter, you are probably supporting a behavior that is alot more common among that population.



Same goes for Charina (rubber boa) from certain areas. Some are notorious for going off foob from august all the way until spring. Ryan Hoyer said they just gorge themselves during certain times of year and to keep them one must stuff them like a sausage when they eat so they can make it the rest of the time.



I have had good luck with washington rubber boas though as they eat better than most.
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