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Carmichael
at Sat Nov 6 07:42:26 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carmichael ]
Two things:
1) Being a curator does NOT mean I have the luxury of "all kinds of food"; far from it; we are cash strapped like many smaller wildlife facilities but we never compromise the health of our animals.
2) Although I am a curator, I also have my own personal home collection for which I obtain food with my own funds that costs substantial amounts of my family's money.
3) To answer your question on tailing, yes, it sounds like you have a good grasp of what the technique is. If your burm will take live, feed a live rat and once the rat is close to being eaten, and while the python's mouth still working it down, gently place a dead rat towards the back of the mouth so that with the next "gulp" the snake will lock on to the dead rat and continue to eat. Hope this helps.
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RE: Burm still wont eat. - Carmichael, Sat Nov 6 07:42:26 2004