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A year or so ago there was a blip in the news about the hamster who "became friends" with a Ratsnake in a Tokyo zoo. Personally I don't find it that odd -- snakes stop eating for lots of reasons and in this case I'm led to believe the snake was trained to take frozen food, NOT live hamsters. Anyway, it was boasted that the two were living together in harmony but after the initial flood of attention the story got in web blogs, it never came up again. Does anybody know if that tasty little snake finally got eaten? Just curious...

here's a random page about the pair from a while back if any of you have forgotten... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10903211/

I don't remember that story, but it reminds me of another one I saw a while back...on one of those home video type shows, someone had a snake, mouse, and bird all living in the same cage together without any problems! In that case, the owner said he/she had bought the live mouse as food for the snake, but for some reason the snake wouldn't eat it...the mouse didn't bother the snake either so they left them together. I think the bird was already living in the cage with the snake. What I found odd about this story was that the snake was fed live mice, and they continued to feed it live even after that point...there was something about that particular mouse that was different. I never heard anything else about that one either.
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-David

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1.0 ball python (Pandora - don't ask)
1.0 argentine boa (Prometheus)
0.1 hogg island boa (Andromeda)
0.0.1 brazilian rainbow boa (Inara)
1.0 kenyan sand boa (Diablo)
1.0 normal corn snake(Cypress)
0.1 amery. corn snake (Morgan LaFay)
0.0.2 baby corns (Romulus and Remus)
- 1 normal, 1 ghost
0.0.1 banded cali. kingsnake (Cain)
1.0 tangerine honduran milksnake (Narcissus)
0.0.1 snow corn snake (Valkyrie)
1.0 amazon tree boa (Pegasus)
1.0 colombian boa (Poseidon)
0.1 albino san diego gopher snake (Athena)
0.0.1 sandfish skink (Slick)
0.0.1 fire skink (Phoenix)
1.0 dog (Luke)

the wife's pets:
1.0 bearded dragon (Leonidas)
1.1 ferrets (Ares, Enyo)
0.0.1 betta fish (Captain Morgan)
1.2 cats (Galahad, Ripley and Sassy)
0.1 Boxer