Post by pitbulllady on Apr 30, 2005 22:12:15 GMT -5
I have been gone all day to a big reptile show/sale in Raleigh, NC, some three hours away, and came home to find one of my female Bullsnakes laying eggs! I knew she'd been bred by the male, but I didn't expect eggs this soon. She isn't finished yet, either. Hopefully, these eggs will be OK and hatch out, or at least some of 'em will. They are big eggs, a bit larger than the average chicken egg. I almost dropped one a moment ago as I was putting it in the "incubator", which is a plastic sweater box half-full of damp Perlite, and I don't really feel up to scrubbing egg yolk out of a carpet tonight, if I ever feel like scrubbing egg yolk out of anything! That is just never very high on my list of fun things to do.
I picked up three new snakes-a BIG hypomelanistic(which means she has less than normal black pigment-a "dilute" in other words, like a "red-nosed" Pit Bull)Banded Watersnake, who is probably pregnant(they give birth to live babies, not eggs), and a pair of normal tan-phased Western Coachwhips. The male is about 7 feet long. People were freaking out, even the long-time reptile people, when I just reached in the cage and picked them up, since Coachwhips have such a bad rep for being nasty-tempered. Of course, they haven't attempted to bite me at all. I had to get them, even though they are just plain-colored(not the pretty red ones), since they were being sold for people with cobras as cobra food(King cobras only eat other snakes, and most keepers feed them stuff like Coachwhips and Racers because they are cheap and most people don't like them). I got to see a very impressive demonstration by a police K-9 officer who has trained a Water Monitor lizard in the same manner as a police dog, and this guy vouched for monitors being smarter than dogs. The lizard will follow voice commands in German or English, as well as hand signals, and can locate several types of explosives and accelerants, as well as most illegal drugs. So much for the notion of reptiles being "dumb", huh? I also had some type of bizarre-looking, huge gecko take a flying leap and land on my face after it briefly escaped from the guy who was showing it to a customer-that felt pretty weird! Their hands are feet are just like Randall's, only with five fingers and toes. They aren't sticky or wet or gooey at all-just kinda velvety, and it's hard to see how they can stick to everything, but stick they do! If the guy hadn't been asking $300.00 for it, I would love to have brought it home, especially since it picked ME out!
pitbulllady
I picked up three new snakes-a BIG hypomelanistic(which means she has less than normal black pigment-a "dilute" in other words, like a "red-nosed" Pit Bull)Banded Watersnake, who is probably pregnant(they give birth to live babies, not eggs), and a pair of normal tan-phased Western Coachwhips. The male is about 7 feet long. People were freaking out, even the long-time reptile people, when I just reached in the cage and picked them up, since Coachwhips have such a bad rep for being nasty-tempered. Of course, they haven't attempted to bite me at all. I had to get them, even though they are just plain-colored(not the pretty red ones), since they were being sold for people with cobras as cobra food(King cobras only eat other snakes, and most keepers feed them stuff like Coachwhips and Racers because they are cheap and most people don't like them). I got to see a very impressive demonstration by a police K-9 officer who has trained a Water Monitor lizard in the same manner as a police dog, and this guy vouched for monitors being smarter than dogs. The lizard will follow voice commands in German or English, as well as hand signals, and can locate several types of explosives and accelerants, as well as most illegal drugs. So much for the notion of reptiles being "dumb", huh? I also had some type of bizarre-looking, huge gecko take a flying leap and land on my face after it briefly escaped from the guy who was showing it to a customer-that felt pretty weird! Their hands are feet are just like Randall's, only with five fingers and toes. They aren't sticky or wet or gooey at all-just kinda velvety, and it's hard to see how they can stick to everything, but stick they do! If the guy hadn't been asking $300.00 for it, I would love to have brought it home, especially since it picked ME out!
pitbulllady