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Okay so this is my sons corn, not very big at all.This pick really makes har look bigger then she is.

He got out last night because I didnt close his tank lid correctly, a tiny sliver was left open..So She travels all the way through the house at 4:00 in the morning I hear this loud ruckus.
She had climbed up inside our giant cage for our bird and was in his fuzzy sleeping hut trying to eat him..This is the bird, way too big for a tiny corn to eat.

He had literally wrapped around the sleeping hut and had his mouth open and caught on the fuzzy stuff trying to bite the conure..poor tramatized bird..

hahaha. that's a great story! both my snakes (adult pueblan milk and yearling brooksi) try to eat our full grown cats. while i'm holding them, the cats will be cuddled up on the arm of the chair napping. the snakes will stalk them. maybe they haven't seen enough you-tube videos of anacondas vs glades gators.
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1.0 Pueblan Milksnake (Urulóki)
0.1 Hypo Brooks Kingsnake (Mumuna)
2.2 Random House Cats (Jack, Tonka, Violet, Duchess)
1.2 Mice (Daddy Mouse, Honey Bear, Mrs. Frisby)
0.0.1 Wily Garage Opossum
0.2 Sticky Children
1.0 Patient Husband

LOL!!,...yeah, the little "computer" in their tiny head isn't real smart all the time.

If their "Jacobson's organ" on the roof of their mouth tells them THAT is what they are "supposed" to eat, they will attempt to do it many times.

Too funny!

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

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I once had a pet rat that tried to eat my parakeet. That was a pitiful sound. Would have been ugly if we hadn't rescued the bird.
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Kent

0.1 Hypomelanistic striped cornsnake
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase
1.1 Oregon rubber boas

is what it was thinking!!! Probably hungry. Most escapes appear to happen when the snakes are hungry and prowl hunting for food. If you skipped a meal or two, probably decided to go out and get its own lunch LOL!! The corn does appear to be big enough to constrict the bird, but not eat it. Birds are a natural part of wild ratsnake diets, so no surprise your corn (aka red ratsnake) was attracted to the scent. If the bird was canary sized, it would not have been a good thing LOL!!

could easily have chopped that corn in two with its beak.Those conures have super strong beaks and trust me they can use them.I dont think the corn would have had a chance had he actually gotten ahold of the bird.Kinda like a boa trying to eat a horse.
I do know she was hungry, I fed her the next morning.Its been extra hot here in the 100s and all the cages have been a little higher heat then normal so I think theyve all been a feeding frenzy because of it.

probably looking for nestlings and found the concure, more then likely it struck and got stuck out of self defense, instead of thinking he could eat that size bird.

My carpet python always eyes my daschunds when they come into the snake room.
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1.0 Rosy Boa
0.1 Mexican Rosy Boa
1.0 Coastal Carpet Python
3.1 Miniature Daschund
0.1 California Kingsnake
1 Nelson's Milksnake
0.1 Desert Kingsnake - Just laid six eggs!
0.1 Checkered Whiptail
1.0 Long-nosed Leopard Lizard
1.0 Ornate Box Turtle
0.1 Tiger Salamander
2 Bullfrog tadpoles