HI THERE:
My two eastern ribbon snakes used to be very tame, but one day they both just got wierd. They bit, deficated, thrashed... the works. My female ribbon, Rider, is just about the largest ribbon snake I have seen. She is messiest, while the male tended to bite more. She had escaped from the reptile room several times before, but today was the worst. My mom was home alone. She was downstairs eating lunch, when all of a sudden she heard something fall on the floor up in the reptile room. She said she could tell from the sound that it was a humidity control device next to one of my large, tropical community-type vivariums. She rushed upstairs. There sat the female. The little treefrogs and Anoles in the vivarium were going berzerk. She was too scared to grab the snake, so she grabbed my snake tongs instead, and gently clamped them around Rider, who gaped, struck, spun, deficated, regurgitated, urinated, and musked the room to death. It still smells like musk. The poor thing snake... I still love Rider anyway.
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