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Belle shed the other day, nothing new here but this one does show her belly more than previous shots I've posted. She's really getting STRONG!

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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

I figured she be 10' and feeding on guinea pigs by now.:OL!

BTW ever tried guinea pigs? Taste like rabbit. Its a poular Peruvian dish.

Yum!

So are you now ready for some other floridana to add to your collection?
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"Yeah ya told me, and ya wrote it down too. But how the hell am I supposed to remember!"

Dude, that's freakin' disgusting.

However, many years ago in a really good Italian restaurant in DC, I had some kind of risotto with a rabbit ragout that held up for a long, long time ad the best food I had ever tasted. That may have been the only time I tried rabbit but it was delicious.

I do think she is ready for the next size up, she eats her mice pretty quickly.
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

A guinea pig is really no different than a rabbit. I have eaten rabbit many times and if you live away from city folk it is a common dish. In eurpoe my cousins go rabbit hunting all the time. Here in the southern US people eat squirrel*yikes*. Thats something that i will not try. Besides there is not much meat on squirrel. Anyway i don't know how why I got off on a tangent. Maybe I had a hard day. My apologies to anyone who was offended.

Good job on raising that florida king!
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"Yeah ya told me, and ya wrote it down too. But how the hell am I supposed to remember!"

ah come on, were's your sense of adventure... a little squirrel never hurt anybody... Tastes just like a rabbit...
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~Maggie~

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
1.1 Cal Kings
1.0 Mali Uromastyx
1.1 Brooksi

I do think it's odd that someone who has no problem with eating guinea pigs would so sharply draw the line at squirrel.
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

put 'em in a pressure cooker, yum!
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Todd Hughes

I was thinkin a homemade potpie myself...
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~Maggie~

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
1.1 Cal Kings
1.0 Mali Uromastyx
1.1 Brooksi

q: Rainer, is there anything that you don't have a picture of? btw that does look a little tasty.
daveb

Looks tasty? Well, I'll give you this much, it does look deep fried, so how bad could it be?
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

How big you got that snake in such a short time... Do you have any shots of her in your hand back from when you first got her?

First picture, I thought we got her in February, but I'm wrong. This photo is dated April 4 of this year:

Today:

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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

Great job, my guess is that is one happy snake. I love it
Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Thanks Tom, and everyone. I assume she's happy, she does all the right snake stuff.

This is kinda cool though, I was out of town for a week, and my wife said Belle didn't come out at all the whole time. The minute I came home she was out and really active. Could be a coincidence, but maybe she has 'learned' to associate my voice with feeding or whatever. But I like to think she knows me. She certainly doesn't mind being handled.
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

You said "maybe she has 'learned' to associate my voice with feeding or whatever."
That Brooksi IS truly amazing if it has ears.
Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Well, I used quotation marks, said 'maybe' at the beginning and 'or whatever' at the end, so I thought I was covered from liability, from a strictly scientific standpoint.

But certainly they sense vibrations of your voice, no? Or maybe I'm just smelly and she likes that.

Do you have snakes that behave very differently with you than they do with other people?
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

I don't know if they can feel vibrations from voices? I have seen some snakes react differently when held by different people.....not sure why but I don'think it would be consistant. It is not with me..........menaing some days some of my snakes are docile, the next day it may be wound up and fiesty.
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TomsSnakes.com

Maybe I'm like the Snake Whisperer...
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii

No doubt snakes have an extraordinary sense of smell. You could say their sense of smell is so good they don’t need to hear. I believe the Jacobson’s organs are easily sensitive enough to recognize a regular keeper by smell, and probably sensitive enough to recognize when you have brought a thawed mouse into the room with you. There is some thought that they are so sensitive to vibration that they can actually “hear” a lot more than we think. I say talk to them, it couldn’t hurt...

They can definitely feel"hear", the vibrations are just like sound waves, kinda the same thing.
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Todd Hughes

LOL, shhht!
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Todd Hughes

Thats a porker there ! Very nice colors on it. How old is that King ?

Bruce

I don't know exactly, but I got her late March/early April this year. If all snakes are born in the fall (someone told me that), she's a year old. When we got her we sort of assumed she was really young when we got her, like she was born early this year. But someone here who saw the pictures thought she just wasn't being fed much at the beginning so she grew slowly until we bought her. Later in this thread you can see a picture of her when we first got her.
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0.1 Lampropeltis Getula Floridana
1.0 Elaphe Guttata Slowinskii