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Snapped a not so good pic of my gravid lucy blackrat today.I can reaaly see her scales spreading apart now.

Hey, looks good Mike. Let me know if you hatch out any albinos from that breeding. Email me if you do. dew167@hotmail.com

Dewey

Sure.I'll keep you guys posted.What do you and your brother got going on this year?How's that rusty project looking?

Can we get a picture of a RUSTY? Here is a picture of the Black Ratsnake I re-captured last week. They are usualy jet black from our area.

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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

I read your recapture post and have a good one to tell also.
Back in the 80's a buddy and I caught a blackrat on a powerline crossing on the way to our cabin.He kept the snake for a few months and decided he would release it on the way to the cabin for a work weekend.So we drop the snake off at the powerline right where we found it and on to the cabin we go.An hour later,a fellow cabin member pulled into the lane and said he just saw a redtailed hawk carrying a big black snake at the powerline!We just looked at each other dumbfounded.My buddy even said he felt bad that he kept the snake only to release it into the clutches of a hawk.
Two summers later while on the way to our cabin I find a blackrat at the same powerline crossing that has what looks to be healed over talon marks all over it's back.I thought of the snake we released two years previous and thought about the possibilities that the hawk could have dropped the snake and it survived.

It has definately happened in the past,
A coupla summers ago,some of the staff at the local nature center captureda Black rat around 40 inches or sso in length,that had some old talon scars with ribs actually protruding through the skin.We sent him to a friend in Vet college,who did some work on him and returned him to us the following summer.He was released in an area that seems to hold several "bigguns"
I found a 6 footer in the process of shedding....and 6 more skins that year,in the same area,longer than hers was.
I hope he's happy wwith that female that lives there

Bear

I know that quite a few snakes are homebodys and some will actualy find their way home. What was the shocker is after finding that there was a Black Rat following I went back out to look for the red morph and it was under the first board I flipped!
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"Life without risk is to merely exist."

Haha she looks as fat as a bullsnake!
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- Andy
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