What's amazing about these is that they are actually locality specific morphs, from my understanding. I think the "original" calico is actually a wild collected animal from KY. It is STUNNING! Like no man-made morph I've ever seen.

Check out his gallery of cow suckers here:

http://www.ectotherms.net/gallery/Calico-Cow-Sucker-Gallery

Great new website too...

btw...they are black rats. Many rural KY folks refer to black rats as "cow-suckers" - a spin of the milk snake legend I suppose.

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• Have you guys seen the calico and lemon "cow suckers" on Will Bird's site? - DeanAlessandrini, Fri Mar 18 16:01:49 2005
• this animal was collected in the wild in KY...WOW!! - DeanAlessandrini, Fri Mar 18 16:09:50 2005
• RE: this animal was collected in the wild in KY...WOW!! - Terry Cox, Sat Mar 19 05:29:39 2005
• RE: this animal was collected in the wild in KY...WOW!! - DeanAlessandrini, Sat Mar 19 11:58:23 2005
• RE: Have you guys seen the calico and lemon "cow suckers" on Will Bird's site? - lbrat, Sat Mar 19 09:17:44 2005
• You can't say enuff good things about Will & his animals.... - Jolliff, Sat Mar 19 21:35:19 2005
• RE: Have you guys seen the calico and lemon "cow suckers" on Will Bird's site? - snakemanuk, Mon Mar 21 02:14:03 2005