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destruction mode ! He eats like crazy now . I still scent with snake but he eats 1-2 weanlings at a time. Ive been feeding him every 5 days. I will try one unscented and one scented next time to see how that goes. He looks to be his way to a healthy 8 foot though LOL.

Regards,

Keith Hillson

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That is a gorgeous baby Y/T, Kieth.

Thanks . I cant wait to see what he looks like as an adult.

Keith
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Can you go ahead and box it up and send it to me!?

On a serious note, that is an AWESOME looking snake!! Congrats on getting it to eat. It's a real headache spending good money on a snake that won't eat!!

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It actually did eat but only live and my local pet stores will not sell live pinks or fuzzies. They believe it to be cruel and inhumane.

Keith

>>Can you go ahead and box it up and send it to me!?
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>>On a serious note, that is an AWESOME looking snake!! Congrats on getting it to eat. It's a real headache spending good money on a snake that won't eat!!
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>>D
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It's ok to freeze them and sell them dead, but it's cruel and inhumane to sell them live for a snake?

There's nothing humane about the way most pet stores keep their animals or the way they tell people to care for them...

That's friggin rediculous.

These folks don't seem to really have a good grasp on life concepts. Life itself is sometimes cruel by our perception. And...cruelty is a human perception. Animals have no such concepts. Things live and then they die. That's the facts. How it dies is really immaterial on the grand scale of things. Death is death is death. If it dies by gassing or freezing, in the end it's just as dead as if it were constricted or envenomated by a snake (or battered to death by an Indigo). The human concept is based on whether the animal apparently feels pain during the process or not. This is, in my estimation, completely unrealistic. Very few mice in the wild die in a miniature gas chamber or a commercial freezer. A great many die while being consumed by a reptile.

Thats life in a liberal city like Madison, Wisconsin. Great place to live but a bit heavy on the PC side.

Regards,

Keith
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