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okay with the post below some people got upset that it was not a kingsnake that was posted. But because we are a long term community I am curious what other people do when it comes to collecting things. Since keeping reptiles is a form of collecting. i wonder how many of us actually collect other things?

So if any of you have any non-herp related hobbies were you collect things (I am not talking about sports hobbies or other outdoor hobbies, but hobbies where you actually collect things). It could be collecting rocks, cars, comic books, zippo lighters, music CD's, etc.

Show us some pics of what things you collect to make it interesting.
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I am a big fan of the Chevron toy cars and have all of them except the Disney ones which I thought were lame, and some of the Sport vans which were all the same. The vehicle pictured is my own creation when everyone wanted a fire truck. I posted this on the toy car blog and got so many hits it finally inspired the Chevron folks to make a fire truck. Alas, Chevron seems to have quit with this thing and is not making any more of the toy cars.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

That's what i am talking about. Those types of hobbies really interest me. You seem to have a good niche in those. Are they expensive?
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They are not that expensive, except for the first Breast cancer car that came out, which is very scarce. I have it. Also the Disney cars (which I hate and are super lame; not even have eyeballs, for cryin out loud!) are expensive, just due to scarcity.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

I also collect guns. Here's a few of my favorites.

>>I want to collect guns but they're more expensive than snakes Figure a decent rifle is at least 300-400 bucks, even most milsurp these days. And it ain't hard to break a grand per gun.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

ahhh long guns. i mostly only collect CCW guns exept for full size 1911's. and K and L frame S&W's.

I like anything without the Clinton Locks. Locks put on a gun are offensive to me like some are offended by hybrid snakes.

Nice S&W 624 L frame:

Oh and I like knives to:
Strider SMF with Kimber series 1 anniverary issue.

Custom S&W M13 w/ 3" barrel and Spyderco Military.

Salt H1 Spyderco with Krein regrind are my basic users.

I sold most all of my nice of my guns this year because I needed cash. That is the great thing about guns. They are like money in the bank. You can always get cash from guns when needed.
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Which is just as good as money.
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

>>Which is just as good as money.

check and mate. game over!

btw elephant eats poop made me lmfao, i needed that today, thanks.
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odelay odelay odelay hee hoooo...
heeeeya huhhhh!
~Back in the saddle (Aerosmith)

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is it my iPad or did you post it wrong? I can't see your post!
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

it must be you ipad cause I can see it.

good thing you can't actually! LOL!
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It's another picture of your feet???
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

Here is another picture of my feet.

This is from 2003. So i was holding it for Jorge. My feet looked a lot more supple back then. Don't you think?

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Those feeeeeet!!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Figures you would notice the feet in the pic and nothing else.

LOL!

The 3 amigos never cease to amaze me.
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I was blinded by the absolute sheer horror! my eyes still sting of it's deadly site. Buy some foot cream or something.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

I collect everything from dust to completely useless trivia....Everything, except money that is.......

Seriously, I have collections of reptile related books with autographs, art, antique art, and postcards.....
Also, local gems and fossilized coral from my area....

:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

crimsonking.piczo.com/

Yeah, I have tons and tons of reptile related stuff as well.I have been collecting reptile business cards for well over 20 years and I think I have about 2100 different ones now.I have all the old price lists as well way before the internet came along and changed everything.
I have all kinds of snake posters framed and hanging on my walls as well as a huge collection of snake books.I think I have about 250 books now from a to z.

Also, over the years I have picked up weird hand painted glass plates, shot glasses or anything with snakes on them.

L8r Shannon

p.s. anytime any of you guys go to a snake show and feel like helping out my addiction for cards feel free to pick up a card of each and every table and send them to me.That would be so cool.

....I probably could have included money in my collection. Just not spending money...

:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

crimsonking.piczo.com/

That is cool !!!
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

These are some of the ones that were easiest to grab real quick.

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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

I, too have a huge collection of die cast cars......Franklin Mint, Hot Wheels and many others.......mainly muscle cars from the 50s, 60s and early 70s..........

And I have a small collection of German Soligen steel pocket knives like Puma, Boker, Kissing Crane, Eye Brand and Bulldog along with some Case, Schatt & Morgan American made knives. I like the old school styles of pocket knives over the newer Tactical knives......with the congress style or trapper being my favorites......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Solingen...LMAO! You know that i have visited the town?!?...It is not far away from my hometown...

and I like metal made in solingen ! ACCEPT! the best german heavy-metal band!

>>Solingen...LMAO! You know that i have visited the town?!?...It is not far away from my hometown...
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>>and I like metal made in solingen ! ACCEPT! the best german heavy-metal band!

Lol.......what is the best German heavy metal band?
Rammstein?
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

" Lol.......what is the best German heavy metal band?
Rammstein? "

Rammstein is not metal. Good band though!!
My favorite German metal band is Kreator!
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Genesis 1:1

Kraetor ?THAT is METAL!
Some years ago i have seen them in my hometown with SODOM and DESTRUCTION...that was HELL in town...

Shot me a PM!

Oh yeah! Kreator and Sodom are among my favorite thrash bands.
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Genesis 1:1

...if they don't keep us alive!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

That was a killer-track!

Have you noticed that ACCEPT released a new CD last year?
Very strong comeback without Udo, it`s titled"Blood of the nations"

That was surprisingly good! Very catchy hard roking tune!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

>>That was surprisingly good! Very catchy hard roking tune!

I agree......I heard a little AC/DC and Maiden in the mix.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Yeah muscle cars were the best. At least when gas was like 50 cents a gallon, lol. Cars will never be the same!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

>>Yeah muscle cars were the best. At least when gas was like 50 cents a gallon, lol. Cars will never be the same!
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I like the new Dodge Challenger.......soooooooooo retro looking.....

Btw....I think the gas prices have risen rather proportionately with average salaries............

1966
Gallon of Gas = $0.32
Average salary = $4900.00

2011
Gallon of Gas = $3.50
Average salary = $42000.00

Salaries based on this chart.
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.htmlhttp://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html

If compared to today's dollar value the highest we've paid for gas is back in 1918 for a whopping $3.63 per gallon comparatively speaking.......lol
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

I think they're a very cool ideah!
As for the price of gas, I guess your right, but it still hurts to fork out 60 bucks to fill a tank. You must work for a gas or oil company John?
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

>>I think they're a very cool ideah!
>>As for the price of gas, I guess your right, but it still hurts to fork out 60 bucks to fill a tank. You must work for a gas or oil company John?

Yep.....I've been in the Oil Industry since 1991.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Really like the Cuda's. I had a similar toy a few years ago. I actually have the little one like yours that looks just like the big one had.

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Randy Whittington

HOLY COW YOU OWNED THAT CAR?
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Yep. Too expensive to keep up when you drive them hard though, which I did.
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Randy Whittington

I really miss my Camaro now.
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

Awesome Randy!......440 Magnum??

Many years ago, I had a nice Black on Black w/bucket seats, center console '73 Pontiac Grand Am sport coupe with a 455, had the bare block boiled and TOTALLY re-built the entire engine myself with lots of performance aftermarket parts with some help from my sport car mechanic dad. It was bored-out 2x, and I added an Edelbrock Performer aluminum high-rise manifold, Holley 750 double-pumper, Crane "fireball" cam, Crane roller rockers, double timing chain gear set, 3000 rpm stall converter, Turbo 400 tranny with B&M shift kit(stage 2), Re-done heads, high-output Accel electronic ignition, coil & wires, Thrush turbo dual exhaust, and Trans Am Honeycomb wheels with 60's all around.

Man,...that thing BOLTED pretty good for a heavier car..LOL!

Af ew of the bad-ass Yamaha cafe RD 350's I had were pretty fun to bang the gears on too!

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I had was setup about identical to this cafe racer's rearset shifting, and all, only mine was bright canary yellow with black Japanese bamboo style lettering on the tank. Mine had the same aluminum D.I.D. rims, little racing tach, expansion chamber pipes, cafe "duck tail" seat, drag bars, etc..

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

It did have the 440 magnum. Looked into hemi blocks but they are too hard to find without paying a fortune.
I really like the cafe racer's. I saw a show recently about them. Cool bikes.
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Randy Whittington

Yeah man, older original hemi blocks and new hemi "crate" motors are VERY expensive!!!

I saw an overhaul on TV a while back where the guy had to pay $10,000 bucks for a new 426 hemi crate motor!......arrrgh!!

....."gonna play, gonna pay" I guess..LOL!

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Cuda's are my favorite car of all time! I had a buddy growing up who was always restoring one. I never saw if he finnished it but that thing had real muscle, lol. It was in primer gray, when I joined the military, and we lost touch. Probably just as well, he only got me in trouble all the time, lol.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

The one I had in the picture in my post above was a Dodge Challenger as opposed to the Plymouth Cuda. They were very similar. The Cuda's were 3 or 4 inches shorter with a couple differences in the body design. The Cuda's are my favorite all time old muscle car. The 1971 Hemi Cuda's with the gills in the grill and the shaker hood were just plain old bad a$$. Here is a shot of one. I'm not super crazy about the rims on this one but they are still pretty cool. I have to say that I liked all the old mopars. The Coronet, the Super Bee, the Charger, the Challanger, the Cuda, the Road Runner and the Dart.

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Randy Whittington

I liked the Mopars...especially the Road Runner and the Super Bee but my favorite car of all time is the 69 Pontiac GTO - The Judge....

Maybe the new one will be better than the stupid one they tried to bring back a few years ago.....That was nothing more than a freakin Pontiac Sunfire....LOL

Here's what they have planned:

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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Oh yea, I always liked the GTO's. An old friend had a 1970 painted hugger orange. Sweet cars. I wouldn't have minded having a 1967 Corvette with the 427 either.
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Randy Whittington

Yhe GTO was nice too! All the old Muscle cars are neat. A friend of mine's brother had a Mach1 Mustang, and a 442 Olds, I would have taken either one!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Yeah that red one is sweet! Your right the rims could be replaced. I didn't even notice the firsy one wasn't a Cuda, but on second look, I see it.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

great post, should reveal alot... esp. since we are all HORDERS i mean lets be real collector is just a nice word for horder...
i collect/hord... lp's, musical instruments, books, now hobbies sounds nicer more acceptable and mine are snakes obviously which encompasses a large part of my life in all manners, i actively pick a guitar to keep chops up and i also am a reefer (boy the fish folks are alot nicer than the snake folks which is kinda sad) my reef is 18months old and i currently have 14 sp./ssp of coral going great hybridization is in the works... pics soon
,,,,,,,,,thomas davis
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com

Well since I play a lot of Texas Hold 'Em at Casinos....I also collect poker chips from different casinos.

Kerby...

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Life is like a bunch of fish in an aquarium....we all get along (bonding) until I want to eat you....and I do.

Looks like you almost have them all.
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

Seashells... started back in the 80's as a hobby with my son... shortly after we started the importation of many shells, along with many other things we are all too familiar with, was banned. Things can still be found but at a hefty price for decent specimens... so any of you live along coastal waters throughout the world?

Gerry

Seashells... started back in the 80's as a hobby with my son... shortly after we started the importation of many shells, along with many other things we are all too familiar with, was banned. Things can still be found but at a hefty price for decent specimens... so any of you live along coastal waters throughout the world?

Seashells is how herpers smuggled in knobtail geckos from Australia. Nobody ever got caught. Don't ask me how i know this.
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>>Seashells... started back in the 80's as a hobby with my son... shortly after we started the importation of many shells, along with many other things we are all too familiar with, was banned. Things can still be found but at a hefty price for decent specimens... so any of you live along coastal waters throughout the world?

When I was a child my Aunt and Uncle owned and operated the Sea Shell Shoppe in my hometown of Rockport, Texas........I have a lot of seashells and live very near the Gulf beaches...
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

I have a pretty decent collection of old punk, thrash, metal, and alternative 7", 10", 12" vinyl and wax records, cassette tapes, cd's, and t-shirts - also "Maximum Rock and Roll" magazine going back to the 80's. And - "Reptiles" magazine going back to the 90's, and I've started collecting "Herp Nation" now (hope they have a long run). I have a large collection of books of all kinds, but my favorites are herp books, of which I have some good ones - and a few signed by the authors...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

I recently purchased an FJ Cruiser and it has turned into a hobby.
This isn't a collection of any sort but I do have lots of plans for this vehicle. Next on the list of after market mods is a Winch Bumper since Toby and I hit a deer in West Texas not long after this picture was taken.....lol

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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

That's pretty cool John.

MPG?
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>>MPG?

It's the shape of a box and boxes aren't very aerodynamic...lol
I get about 19 on the highway.
And that is going to decrease when I add the winch bumper/brush guard, roof rack and rock sliders.......I've already added 33x12.5 tires........

It'll go anywhere though.....great herping vehicle...
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Hey John, you could collect those too. LOL It is a GREAT herping vehicle too - very comfortable ride...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

>>That's pretty cool John.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

Sorry it's not a Prius....lol

I work in the oil industry.....I will never drive an electric car........nor do I need one that gets 100 mpg.......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

My brother's a rough neck with some outfit in CA, dad's an upper level manager with Enbridge, sister in law is an engineer with Aera, father in law is an environmental engineer for Conoco...

I'm still a cheap bastard and don't want to have to fill up more than I need to!
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

>>My brother's a rough neck with some outfit in CA, dad's an upper level manager with Enbridge, sister in law is an engineer with Aera, father in law is an environmental engineer for Conoco...
>>I'm still a cheap bastard and don't want to have to fill up more than I need to!
>>We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

I hear ya......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Can i have the deer? like them cooked in red-wine!

Here are some pics of my old hobby...

they are allways hungry...

That's really cool. I heard they taste pretty good too.
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Gerard

"I am the one that hides the universal secret of all time"

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

Thank you!

I am keeping piranhas since november 94, now i have a mixed group of pygocentrus piraya and pygocentrus nattererie in my tank, all WC...never tasted them!

NICE Michael. I know the red bellied's in the first shot. Is that a black in the second. A baby red bellied piranha was the very first fish I ever got, back in 1983. When I was younger I had aquariums all over the house. This is the last fish I had. It's a flower horn. He is at the end of a 75 gallon tank which is 18 inches from front to back to give you an idea of how big he was. It looks like he is in a little tank but there is 4 ft behind him to the other end of the tank.

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Randy Whittington

I wouldn't mind keeping some of those!
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Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

My mouse colony is another hobby. Not only do I bred for big litters with mamas producing 15 to 22 pinks per litter, I breed for color and coat texture. I have long haired, silky long haired wooly, leucistic, brindle, TAN (the mouse in the top picture) and all sorts of other colors popping up all the time.

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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

I started keeping back all the fancy mice as they popped out, and using them as breeders, but my production went down so I started over from scratch with all white ones.

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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

For breeders I select the babies from the really big litters. I am moving away from the long haired for the most part as even though they are very prolific they are not as vigorous as the short haired type.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

And now my little one is too..

That's cool! Where is that at?
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