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It is a gift....

That apparently I was not given.

Still waiting on Cherry and Copper. And they look so RIPE!

My mom called me and talked to me on the phone for TWO HOURS! I could not get her to shut up, and in the end, she asked....
"so how many times have you looked in on your mommas?"

"er...."

Whenever I need a reality check, my mom seems to manage to give me a reality WHACK upside the head. I put a sheet over the cages tonight and I am hanging out with my cat rather than my snakes.
She's SO not as interesting, but then I think she thinks the same thing about me.
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Jess
1.3 adult BRBs (Sango, Copper, Cherry, Dudette)
0.1 juvie BRBs born 6/18/06 my first litter(Isis)
0.1 baby BRB born 5/12/08(Zella)
1.0 Blue Parrotlet (Willy)
0.1 Tuxedo Kitty (Maymay)
1.1 african brown house snake (Nellie, Lacie)
2.0 awesome mini-zoo-friendly room mates

Jess,
...Time for an update? Or, have they driven you completely mad? I know how it can be when you are expecting them anytime and checking cages every hour or two. None of mine seem to be close to ready so it is not yet so stressful here.
Jeff

Still nothing, Cherry, a female I bought from Dave 3 years back now is gravid for the first time since he last bred her. She's super fat and a couple times a week will seem to get into position and will have a lot of her "weight" pushed towards her cloaca. The first time it turned out to be excrement, the second, nothing. Both of my females have been moving around the cage a lot in the last three days. I tried feeding them small rats on Wednesday, Copper ate one but Cherry just fiddled with it.
The trouble is that it has been 148 days since I introduced the male to Cherry and Copper and I had never seen any copulation. They were separated around April 15th. So that would put me out to the very end of August if they bred late.

So I COULD still be waiting a while, but Cherry seems especially close, Copper never really puts on much weight or shows much when she has babies in her, and her litters tend to be small, her first was 7 live and 6 slugs, her last litter was 4 live and 8 slugs.

I've gotten to the point where I know it will happen sometime, I'm just not planning on going out of town anytime soon.
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Jess
1.3 adult BRBs (Sango, Copper, Cherry, Dudette)
0.1 juvie BRBs born 6/18/06 my first litter(Isis)
0.1 baby BRB born 5/12/08(Zella)
1.0 Blue Parrotlet (Willy)
0.1 Tuxedo Kitty (Maymay)
1.1 african brown house snake (Nellie, Lacie)
2.0 awesome mini-zoo-friendly room mates