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RE: BLACK RAT

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Posted by: DMong at Fri May 20 18:40:23 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

No doubt,....most of the general public's estimations of snake lengths are absolutely ridiculous as we both know. Most people will look at a 3 foot ratsnakes and swear it is a 7 foot behemoth as big around as a mans arm..LMAO!!

I'm sure somewhere in the country there are some very old absolute monster ratsnakes, but most certainly don't approach 7 to 9 feet that's for sure. That other poster's leucistic T-rat bloodline come to mind...wow!!!..uh, yeah, pretty freakin large!

I had a 7 plus foot Yellow rat around 1968-1970 that was a real handful to carry home as a 8-10 year old kid. I bought the thing from an older kid on the next block over from where I lived. On the way home I was trying to avoid stumbling all over it the entire way home because it was so huge and cumbersome no matter how much I tried to control the big loops and coils. So about mid way home, it pushes it's nose into my neck and starts chewing real good..LOL! Geez, so when I get home my T-shirt is soaked in blood, and my neck looked like it was slashed by Jack the Ripper..

I think I went into the bathroom real quick as soon as I walked in to clean up so my mom wouldn't blow a gasket when she saw me standing there covered in blood..LOL!. She was very cool about me having snakes as a kid though, and she even bought quite a few for me for my birthdays and Christmas too. But I just bought the snake, so I didn't want her thinking it was something I couldn't handle right off the bat...LOL!

Anyway, yeah, as a young kid, that big 7 plus foot yellow rat seemed like holding about a 12 foot King cobra would to me now........minus the gnarly venom of course..LMAO!!


~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"


   

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