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I am talking about any strange genetic anomalies, or weird behavior. I am just interested in hearing what is out there. Examples; two headed snakes, snake that were born with legs, a tree boa that never goes into the trees, an anaconda that never got bigger than two feet as an adult. I have not seen or heard of any of these, except for the two headed snake, these are just they type of things that I would like to hear about. Or anything else that you think is interesting or strange.

Another example is on the General Snakes Forum, meretseger said under the "One justification for live feeding" thread "one of my ratsnakes will catch his rats in the air". I personally think that is pretty neat.

Thank you
MrBfrog
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

i currently have a 6 yearold male true indian python that won't grow an inch over 6 feet?, don't know if that is odd but i assume thay are to get much larger than that, concidering thay can grow to 25 feet. and i have had him for 2 years last october?????

Jormongand is a 6 foot Taiwan beauty with an big appetite. As such he learned pretty quick when feeding day is. I usually drop f/t rats on his hidebox. One day he caught the rat as I dropped it. I thought that was cute so every time I fed him after that I underhanded the rats to him and he usually caught them. Then I went to pick him up one day and he constricted and tried to eat my forearm. Then he did it the next day too. Now I have a tiny scar on my wrist and Jermy doesn't get his rats tossed to him anymore.

My horned adder (RIP) stopped feeding for a bit last winter. He would envenomate his mice, but when they died he wouldn't eat them. Instead he would carefully and deliberately remove the sand from under them until they were sitting on the glass at the bottom of the cage. Then he'd settle back and stare at them. Never figured out why he did it. Poor little tyke.

That's all right now I think.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

I have a couple of snakes that catch their prey in mid air! My Black rat male does it, My adult Everglades Rat male and both of my adult Children's Pythons. The Children's also like to hang from the lip of the tub or from their branch and eat hanging there- rarely on the floor. My adult female BP will, the times I have been able to watch (she is shy)always drag her f/t prey around for a bit by the hind leg (always). Then she settles down, drops it and sniffs it and eats. Even if given multiple items she does it with each.
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Sonya

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.

A very sad thing I saw in Gainsville Fla. Many years ago, was a Sinoloan Milk that had just hatched. For some strange reason there was much more snake than skin. The result was that it was all kinked and coiled tightly in what skin was there (somewhat like a ball). Fortunatly, it did not live for more than a few days.
Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

That is sad, but exactly that kinda thing that I would like to hear about, I would like to know if the snakes were able to survive or not if it was a deformation, like you mentioned.

Thank you all; meretseger, themntl1, and rearfang for what you have posted so far.

MrBfrog
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

Every time my BP relieves himself he does it in the same spot. I have one of those tree stump hides with a hole in the front for the snake to enter. He'll go in there, do his business and leave. One day I was just watching him - I saw him come out of his favorite hide, crawl all the way to the other side of the tank, enter the stump and situate himself so that his little head was sticking out of the hole in the stump just looking at me. I remember thinking: "are you doing what I think you're doing?". He was looking at me as if he was saying "do you mind?". Shortly thereafter he exited the stump and returned to his hide. Left me a nice present!

Here's a picture of his stump - only this time he's just climbing through it:

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1.0 Ball Python "Aragorn"
1.0 Kenyan Sand Boa "Gimli"
0.1 Australian Cattle Dog/Pointer "Kira"