Just a report from today. I was on my way to the monitor building and heard a ruckess. A large adult male cottontail rabbit was flipping and spinning madly. I noticed that there was a snake attacked to its side(hahahahahahahaha). The rabbit got loose and much to my surprise, the rabbit did not run off, but circle the pallet that the snake was under(and anchored too during the fight)

I couldn't tell if it as a gophersnake or a rattlesnake, so I froze and waited to see what will happen. After the rabbit left, I looked under the pallet and saw a aprox 4foot gophersnake.

This is typical of what we see, they strike first and ask questions latter. It did look like that snake was going to get twisted in two.

These types of events always make we think about why so many captive snakes do not have this type of feeding response. Cheers

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• Natural feeding response - FR, Mon Apr 13 16:48:51 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - Nokturnel Tom, Mon Apr 13 18:31:49 2009
• ha..... - FRoberts, Mon Apr 13 19:15:53 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - wbcrows, Mon Apr 13 21:54:10 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - Nokturnel Tom, Mon Apr 13 22:03:55 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - wbcrows, Tue Apr 14 07:45:30 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - Tony D, Tue Apr 14 14:02:25 2009
• thumb bit! - fliptop, Mon Apr 13 18:57:37 2009
• cool pic n/p - snake_bit, Tue Apr 14 11:15:33 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - JYohe, Mon Apr 13 18:57:43 2009
• Straight out of the egg lol - Kerby..., Mon Apr 13 19:21:15 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - Tony D, Mon Apr 13 19:56:32 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - CrimsonKing, Mon Apr 13 22:04:31 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - Tony D, Tue Apr 14 07:08:05 2009
• RE: Oh come on now - FR, Tue Apr 14 09:15:27 2009
• RE: Oh come on now - Tony D, Tue Apr 14 09:34:01 2009
• RE: What we have a burr under the saddle - FR, Tue Apr 14 10:50:08 2009
• RE: What we have a burr under the saddle - Tony D, Tue Apr 14 14:00:37 2009
• RE: Now you switched back, how fun - FR, Tue Apr 14 17:38:55 2009
• RE: Now you switched back, how fun - Tony D, Thu Apr 16 07:15:12 2009
• RE: Now you switched back, how fun - Nate83, Thu Apr 16 14:40:04 2009
• RE: Now you switched back, how fun - Tony D, Fri Apr 17 11:06:37 2009
• RE: Oh come on now - Bluerosy, Tue Apr 14 11:03:25 2009
• Mine do! - zach_whitman, Mon Apr 13 20:07:19 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - CrimsonKing, Mon Apr 13 22:11:54 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - Cheesemonkey, Tue Apr 14 07:31:49 2009
• RE: Natural feeding response - gaboonx, Tue Apr 14 12:11:47 2009