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They are saying this is a two-headed water snake, when it is a VERY obvious two-headed Black Ratsnake..LOL!

I guess they will try to feed it fish until it dies of starvation from refusal. I hope someone has some common sense that sees it, so they can tell them how to raise it before it dies.

so-called "water snake"

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Yeah, I saw that posted on another site - ignorance about snakes makes me angry too. I posted two comments about it, but haven't seen either yet. Apparently, the mods over there prefer the ignorant and stupid comments over informative ones.

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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

>> "the mods over there prefer the ignorant and stupid comments over informative ones"

** Yeah, I know exactly what you mean, some sites are only about comments like...."oh my!, those are pretty colors on your snake, that is very cute!", along with a few silly smiley face icons, and doesn't go much beyond that..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

>>>> "the mods over there prefer the ignorant and stupid comments over informative ones"
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>>** Yeah, I know exactly what you mean, some sites are only about comments like...."oh my!, those are pretty colors on your snake, that is very cute!", along with a few silly smiley face icons, and doesn't go much beyond that..LOL!
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>> ~Doug
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>>"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Well, actually I meant the news site that the article came out on. There is a spot below the article where you can post a comment - which gets reviewed by somebody(?) before it gets posted. The reviewers seem to like ridiculous posts about two-faced politicians and such. The site I saw the article link on first is actually one of my favorite (very informed) sites - not a silly one.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

I just looked at that article again, and some good friends of mine posted a nice, informed response - which (amazingly) got posted.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Yes, it's good they(the moderators) at least had a bit of temporary sense about them, and allowed a sensible response to be posted..LOL!

I hope one of the responses was to tell them what the heck KIND it was. Unless someone else that is experienced with snakes doesn't take that two-headed snake from those folks, it will certainly die in pretty short order too, but that's not to say it would have a very long life anyway, but it could at least have the chance to live as long as possible.

Just the fact that they don't even have a clue as to what kind it is tells me the husbandry will be absolutely piss-poor as well.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Yeah, the (informed) response told them what kind it was and other relevant info. I tried that twice, and neither of my responses ever showed up.

Yep, I agree completely with your assessment of its captive longevity.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

From looking at that snake and they was the heads are "set" I would say in the right hands it has a great chance of survival, the ones with the heads placed like that are usually the ones you see as adult snakes. From the video it is also obvious which head is dominate. Cool stuff!!!
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Thanks,

Frank Roberts

>>From looking at that snake and they was the heads are "set" I would say in the right hands it has a great chance of survival, the ones with the heads placed like that are usually the ones you see as adult snakes. From the video it is also obvious which head is dominate. Cool stuff!!!
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>>Thanks,
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>>Frank Roberts

The "right hands" are what it seems to not be in, is what I meant by its chances of surviving.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Sadly, I am somehow not surprised.
Ignorance always seems to surrond our favorite herps!

Matthew