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but just thought I'd share here...

I went to check on my mouse colony today, and imagine my surprise when I saw this in one of the mouse drawers. This guy looks like he dined on at least a couple of mice and killed some others as well.

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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

sneaky Chapel Hill ratsnakes! Definitely a good laugh...at least he was small enough he didnt do much damage
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Peyton Hale
Knoblochi & Hondurans

you have a mouse colony in your garage? Nice catch, Paul. He was brave to stay there with all those scared, pissed off mice. I guess he was too fat to get out of the tub!

Dave
DNS Reptiles - Updated

yep, he was small enough to squeeze in but is so fat now that there's no way he could have gotten out. I'm surprised that the mice didn't fight back and kill him.
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

i think he was very lucky, that he wasn`t kill by the mices. But because of enough food and water the mices have no reason to kill him. Even because they are domestic ones. -

at the end a really nice catch and foto - maybe the next some milksnake can be presented.

regards
thomas

www.reptilienzucht.com

Honduran offspring 2007
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>>yep, he was small enough to squeeze in but is so fat now that there's no way he could have gotten out. I'm surprised that the mice didn't fight back and kill him.
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>>Paul Weaver
>>Carolina Herps

back in "the day" when i was breeding birds i had an 8' high flight in my garage, with a nest about 7' off the ground. I had a pair of Venezuelan Black Hooded Red Siskins (relatively rare in U.S. aviculture and in demand because they're used to produce "red factor" canaries). Anyway, the female was my most valuable bird at the time, and she'd been hanging out around the nest. One day i couldn't find her, so i went into the flight, reached up into the nest gently, hoping i might find she'd laid some eggs. Instead i found the 18" yellow rat snake i'd brought home several weeks earlier, and which had escaped before i had time to decide what to do with it. The yellow rat was coiled tightly in the bird nest--with a siskin-sized lump in its belly. It couldn't have gotten thru the cage wire if it had tried.

LOL!!.....Paul,

I like your post !! that's great!

You don't suppose those mice were "SWEATIN'BULLETS" and rattling their tales while the "Grim-Reaper" was paying them a visit!......do ya'!!LOL

best regards, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Heck, that's even easier than "backyard herping."
It's interesting to see how resourceful wild snakes can be.

Tim

Did the snake kill the dead mice in the cage also?
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Shannon in Reno
1.0 savannah monitor (Pombe-means "beer" in Swahili)
2.4 dogs
1.0 cat
5.32 rats
6.44 mice
7.50 chickens
1.2 beardies
0.1 black rat snake
~500 hissers
1 giant millipede
0.1 Chissel tooth kangaroo rat
1.1 rabbits
1.0 wonderful husband

I assume that it did, but I wasn't there
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

that's adorable, but inquiring minds want to know, what is it? LOL
I dont know wild snakes at ALL.

Julie

It's a black ratsnake
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps