Just came home to find my Amel. female blackrat has passed on.It's a total mystery.I brought her and my male wild caught up from the basement last week and they both had their first feeding of the season this afternoon.She downed two f/t large mice agressively like she always had,a few hous later she was dead!Her mouth was stuck wide open.I don'y know if that means anything.Maybe she somehow suffocated?She was 54" long.I may give her to a taxidermist friend of mine to be forever imortalized.
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R.I.P.
lbrat
Feb 22, 2004 07:06 PM
Replies (5)
redmoon
Feb 23, 2004 11:24 AM
i'm sorry for your loss. 
it's always sad to lose an animal.
Mark Banczak
Feb 23, 2004 01:47 PM
What an awfully disappointing turn of events. Our thoughts are with you, bud.
Alan Garry
Feb 23, 2004 02:23 PM
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terryp
Feb 23, 2004 02:58 PM
There is a post brumation syndrome that does happen at times with snakes. They come out of brumation and can look and act perfectly normal and then they go. It happens. Sooo sorry for your loss. It happened last year to one of my favorite goper snakes.
Terry Parks
>>Just came home to find my Amel. female blackrat has passed on.It's a total mystery.I brought her and my male wild caught up from the basement last week and they both had their first feeding of the season this afternoon.She downed two f/t large mice agressively like she always had,a few hous later she was dead!Her mouth was stuck wide open.I don'y know if that means anything.Maybe she somehow suffocated?She was 54" long.I may give her to a taxidermist friend of mine to be forever imortalized.
dre
Feb 23, 2004 09:46 PM
