A couple days ago I caught one of my top producing moms eating a fuzzy from another moms litter.

She was pregnant and heavy with babies, So I isolated her from the rest.

Even though I wanted to kill her right then, If I could have caught her giving birth, I could have moved the pinky babies over to the good moms cage, but no luck.

Last night as we slept she had her litter, by the time I woke up, she had killed all of them off.

Needless to say I was very upset with her, so she got to meet my Pueblan for lunch.

Any reason a perfectly good female breeder would go insane like this? Anguish from having all her babies pulled constantly?

Is there any way to keep my other moms from losing it?

Peace,
Wayne A. Harvey
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1.2.9 Storeria dekayi Casper, Xena, Athena, & Kids
0.0.2 Thamnophis marcianus - Checkered Garter Snakes
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - common Garter - Princess
0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua"
0.1.10 Storeria occipitomaculata - Red Belly Racers
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Juvinile CB
0.1.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB
0.1.0. Green Anole "Crystal" WC
1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo
1.2.0. Feline"Felix" "Kaja" & "Silver"
0.1.0. calico RAT
2.4.?? Mice - Feeder farm
More herps than I could ever list out back on the land.

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• Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters litter - dekaybrown, Sat Mar 29 22:22:26 2008
• RE: Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters litter - DMong, Sat Mar 29 23:43:13 2008
• RE: Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters litter - dekaybrown, Sun Mar 30 08:23:50 2008
• RE: Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters litter - Sonya, Sun Mar 30 20:55:53 2008
• RE: Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters litter - dekaybrown, Sun Mar 30 21:43:18 2008
• RE: Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters li - Paul Hollander, Mon Mar 31 17:52:44 2008
• RE: Evil Mice - Feeder mom slaughters litter - Nicodemus, Tue Apr 1 18:05:18 2008
• RE: red belly racers - dekaybrown, Tue Apr 1 21:42:52 2008
• RE: red belly racers - Hollychan, Wed Apr 2 18:11:52 2008
• RE: red belly racers - anuraanman, Thu Apr 3 10:13:15 2008
• RE: red belly racers - dekaybrown, Thu Apr 3 10:28:44 2008
• YES! - anuraanman, Thu Apr 3 10:58:50 2008
• RE: YES! - Spotted Adder DANGER! - dekaybrown, Thu Apr 3 11:22:09 2008
• All too common! - DMong, Thu Apr 3 15:01:34 2008
• RE: All too common! - Hey Doug.... - dekaybrown, Thu Apr 3 18:41:02 2008
• I hear ya! - DMong, Thu Apr 3 19:12:58 2008
• RE: I hear ya! - anuraanman, Thu Apr 3 21:44:40 2008
• RE: I hear ya! - DMong, Thu Apr 3 22:41:58 2008
• RE: I hear ya! - anuraanman, Thu Apr 3 22:57:22 2008
• I wasn't aware! - DMong, Thu Apr 3 23:48:39 2008