Posted on 08/10/2017 1:06:14 PM PDT by libstripper
That's what happens when you let too many East Coast and West Coast outsiders in. They have no appreciation for ingenuity or self-sufficiency.
“Six footers eat rats. Eight footers eat dogs. Ten footers eat little children”
No, they do not. Not sure where you got this tripe from but it’s absolutely absurd. A ten foot boa will eat nothing bigger than a 2 pound rabbit. Please, if you’re uneducated in the husbandry and diet of snakes, don’t make up stuff to try to fear monger.
“In the case of snakes they also regurgitate pellets of hair and bone the same way owls and raptors do.”
A healthy snake does not regurgitate hair and bone. It passes through their digestive system. The general exception to this are egg eaters that will regurgitate the shell of an egg.
“No, they do not. Not sure where you got this tripe from but it’s absolutely absurd. A ten foot boa will eat nothing bigger than a 2 pound rabbit. Please, if you’re uneducated in the husbandry and diet of snakes, don’t make up stuff to try to fear monger.”
LOL! It was a joke. I think most saw it that way ...
BUT >>>>
Ten-foot python eats 13 pound dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/16/snake-eats-pet-dog
A boa is not a python. Two different species and lineages completely.
I have several garter snakes. They don’t regurgitate unless they are sick.
And the one I had was healthy as a horse.
That you could see. If a garter is regurgitating, it’s sick. A vet visit is recommended. We had a boa that did that. She would eat, then regurgitate. No other signs of sickness. Then she suddenly started wasting away after a couple of years of this. Turned out to be a strange form of IBD.
Ceiling snake ate ceiling cat?
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If they have a 6’ Boa, they also have lots of rats!
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48 years late but thanks for the snake keeping tip.
Never too late to learn. I learn something new about the snakes I keep almost every day. They never cease to amaze.
Or they had lots of rats. Rat would come to play, be greeted by Boa; poof!! no more rat. Then happy, full Boa would wait for another rat. For the Boa, all the rat entrances were free food dispensers.
Up here, in New Brunswick, we had a tragedy in Cambellton, my mom’s hometown when a 14-foot African rock python killed two little boys who were sleeping in an apartment above the pet store it escaped from. A cute little ball python is one thing. But a species that approaches the anaconda in size, as a pet? NO.
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