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amazonreptile
at Tue Mar 4 12:28:31 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by amazonreptile ]
Back in high school my buddy bought a yearling okeetee cornsnake. Likely WC as it was 1974! He kept it for a very long time. There were many years it ate only the mice his pet cat caught. Maybe 10 a year. But live on and look good it did.
In 2002 I got a call from the "neighbor kid" he had given it to. The snake was acting weird and felt "stiff". I said perhaps it was dying of old age as I knew the history of the animal.
The next day I got the call, "He died".
Snake was 28 years in captivity and a yearling when bought. So for this specimen? 29 years or so!
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