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Well everyone, Fluffy the retic will call Columbus her new home for good. Our zoo just bought her for permanent exhibit.

Here's a link to the story:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/01/12/buyfluff.ART_ART_01-12-08_A1_4191M6R.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
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I did not think fluffy was a tiger? Am I wrong.
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0.2 Rotts
1.0 Super Tiger
1.0 Amel Retic
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Red Tail
0.1 Blood Python
1.0 Green Ananconda
1.0 Emerald Tree Boa

There are more than one fluffy. The tiger is number 3.

The Bob clark Fluffy?

Here is the photo from the Bob Clark website of Bob and Fluffy. There is no mention of more than one Fluffy.
Fluffy Foto

Thats the one I was thinking of. Intresting. I thought the one pic was the big one not the one in the article?
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0.2 Rotts
1.0 Super Tiger
1.0 Amel Retic
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Red Tail
0.1 Blood Python
1.0 Green Ananconda
1.0 Emerald Tree Boa

I've never herd of bob clark having a tiger named fluffy eather, the only tiger i've seen from his was named buttercup so they said and it looked over 20' and was over 250lbs


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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0.0 Yellow Anaconda
1.1.0 Suriname Red Tail Boa
1.1.0 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0.0 Coral Sunglow Boa
0.1.0 Coral Albino Boa
0.1.0 Arabesque Het Albino Boa
0.1.0 DH Sunglow Boa
1.1.0 Red Blood Python
1.2.0 Jungle Carpet Python (females VPI Bloodline)
0.1.0 Burmese Python (Rescue)
0.1.0 Albino Retic (Lavender)
0.1.0 Avicularia Versicolor
1.0.0 Cat

Actually if you follow the link and look at the top photo....And compare it to the photo ob Bob`s site.......It looks to be the same animal. The lower picture looks like a different snake. Seems so odd that he would sell Fluffy....Odd to me anyway. I don`t sell anything.
Fluffy at the Zoo

Yes, there are 3 fluffys. Fluffy I is in a zoo in Isreal. Fluffy II is the normal that you see on Bobs site and to the best of my knowlege he still has her. Fluffy III is that Tiger. From what I gather from different people close to Bob is that every time he has a snake pass the last one in size, they aquire the "fluffy" name(i.e. when the normal outgrew the first fluffy, she aquired the name, then when the tiger outgrew both of them, Fluffy!" And from what I can gather, yes, Fluffy III (the tiger) was originaly named Buttercup.

COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Ohio) 12 January 08 One snake, 35,000 buckssssssss - Fluffy stays put (Kathy Lynn Gray)
Rejoice, Fluffy fans.
The gigantic python that slithered its way into Columbus' heart on a visit last summer is here to stay.
The animal, thought to be the world's longest captive snake, will call the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium home permanently, thanks to an aborted flight back to its owner, said zoo Associate Director Pete Fingerhut.
Fluffy's Columbus stint was supposed to last from April through Halloween. Zoo Director Emeritus Jack Hanna had arranged the loan from python breeder Bob Clark in Oklahoma City, who'd raised Fluffy from a hatchling.
The 24-foot-long snake with the watermelon-size girth wowed zoo visitors and helped make last year's 1.53 million attendance the second highest on record, Fingerhut said. The biggest year was 2006, with 1.56 million visitors.
So when Nov. 1 rolled around, zookeepers weren't happy about packing up Fluffy for her flight back to Oklahoma City. Then, they got a reprieve. The cargo company scheduled to ferry the 300-pound reticulated snake had gone out of business, and Clark was having trouble finding a substitute.
"A lot of companies hesitate to transport snakes, especially since the movie Snakes on a Plane," Fingerhut said.
The delay gave zoo officials an opening to negotiate with Clark, who had said in March that he wouldn't part with Fluffy.
"We'd had people coming out that last week of October to see Fluffy, and we kept getting e-mails asking us to keep her," Fingerhut said.
A $35,000 offer clinched the deal.
"It's clearly the most expensive snake we've ever gotten," said zoo Executive Director Jerry Borin.
But given Fluffy's popularity and the cost to retool her exhibit for another animal, zoo officials decided she was worth it.
The zoo's animals generally come as exchanges from other zoos or through breeding loans or donations, so money doesn't often change hands, Borin said. But the zoo sometimes purchases animals, such as three kangaroos recently bought for a total of $15,000.
Clark is happy with Fluffy's outcome.
"I really love that snake; I think it's a special animal," he said. "It's so big and tame and wonderful. But I have to deal with the realities of life like everyone else. I like to have the money, and I know she's got a great place to live there."
Fluffy is on display in the zoo's Asia Quest area, in an indoor, 25-foot-long enclosure. Seeing her is a bargain through February because zoo admission in January and February is half the normal price.
Clark expects Fluffy to have a long run in Columbus. One python at the Philadelphia Zoo lived to be nearly 50, and Fluffy is just 15.
And unlike humans, she won't shrink as she ages. Reptiles, Clark said, continue to grow throughout their lives.

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