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jfmoore
at Sun Feb 9 11:19:37 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jfmoore ]
>>Did your Nerodia sipedon ever switch to unscented rodents?
The one I kept for 10 years did eat unscented rodents, but I didn’t help the imprinting process very much by what I would offer her. You prompted me to look back at my records, and I could tell what aquatic flesh I was eating by reading this animal’s cards. If I was preparing salmon, catfish, whiting, shrimp, whatever, for myself, I’d toss a piece in the N. s. sipedon’s bowl. I even see a notation for “smoked trout skin.” Okay, I’m not proud of that. And sometimes, when I was out of fish for scenting, I’d just pour canned tuna oil on mice or small rats. Ummm, good.
She ate unscented rodents most readily during the warm months, when you’d expect a northern water snake to be eating most vigorously anyway.
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RE: And now for something completely different… - jfmoore, Sun Feb 9 11:19:37 2003