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In the mouse cage of course!

This is how I found out that one of my ratsnake cages was no longer latching properly. This guy has been a picky eater recently, and I'm happy he found an eatery he likes, but I wish he hadn't eaten an entire litter of pinkies and at least one of my breeder females...

Hahaha...

At least you found him though... A lot of people aren't so lucky. Plus, it looks like you won't have to feed him for a week or two.
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- Natalie
(San Francisco Bay Area)

1.0.0 Banded California King
1.0.0 Mexican Black King
0.0.1 Goini Kingsnake
1.0.0 Bay of LA Rosy Boa
0.0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa
1.2.0 Rubber Boas

>>At least you found him though... A lot of people aren't so lucky.

For now, all the snakes (and the mice) are in my hermetically sealed hot room. He wasn't going anywhere...

I used to breed my mice in an outdoor closet (to cut down on the smell). I would invariably find one or two wild yearling TX ratsnakes a season in a mouse cage with that "I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" look on their faces. I would just put them outside and let them go along their way.

A friend who lived nearby had a similar problem, but his most common offenders were Louisiana Milksnakes in the mouse room. They never managed to climb up into the cages like the ratsnakes do.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Haha! I've found a few corns and yellow rats in my mice cages over the years. A few years ago I found a female amel corn in my mice racks. I had no amels at all before that. Since she "stole" some of my breeders, I figured she'd be put to work breeding for me. I bred her to a snow male and instead of amels, I got 50%amels and 50% snows. Obviously someone lost an amel het/anery, huh?
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

Oh man thats funny.