The babies started their first shed today, which means they get their first meal tomorrow. I am sure they would be /so/ excited! If only they knew..
I need to get my lighting sorted better for the pictures, so that I do not have to use the camera flash. It drowns out their colors.
As you can see in the post below. Our snake started to have her babies today. At least that is what we thought. After waiting a while to see if any others popped out, I had a quick look under all the newspapers and saw a small clump of baby snakes.
I called Talon over so he could see them huddled up under the papers. He was just as excited as I was!
I pulled ‘mom’ out of the cage and then grabbed all the babies, sifting through all the aspen to make sure we didn’t miss any. She had a total of 9 babies and 1 slug (a slug is an undeveloped ovum?)
The video above is just a small one I captured from my phone (and yes, I realize it cuts off at the end).
I told Talon that he can pick out one of the babies and keep it as his pet. He was very excited when I first told him, but then he became pretty upset because he couldn’t keep /all/ of the babies! Silly boy.
I didn’t have anything in the tubs for reference, but trust me when I say.. they are tiny.
We’ll keep you posted.
I will let you know in advance that this post does not have a happy ending. I have been AWOL from the reptile forums that I visit for some time. I just haven’t had it in me to visit them lately. Hell, I have even thought of getting rid of most of my snakes. Lately, with the amount of stress that I have had to deal with, I have found it slightly relaxing to browse the forums, read posts and look at some of the pictures that are posted.
I stopped by a popular Red-Tail Boa forum this evening and one of the first posts I came across was from a friend of mine named Rick. I met Rick online about a year and a half to two years ago, when I purchased Razz (pictured below) from him.
She is a beautiful snake with a great disposition. Her mother was an F3 Albino named Aurora owned by Rick. Aurora ran into a bit of trouble within the last couple years. I believe she formed a cyst or something on her side and had to go through a couple surgeries before getting back to her normal self
You can see her scar in the picture above. Rick went through a very long recovery period with her. That scar was pretty much an open wound for the longest time, but he mended her back to health.
(This is the most recent photo of her with her last batch of babies)
Well, long story short.. apparently Rick was on his way to the vets with her in a duffel bag. He had run into a store to grab some coffee and when he came out she was gone. Somebody had reached in the open window and stolen the duffel bag. He spent several days papering the town with reward posters and scanning a ton of online ads hoping she would show up.
(more after the jump)
Brandy is doing better. The vet said that her x-rays show early signs of “hip changes”. The ball joints of her hips are not as round as they should be. They show signs of unevenness and wear. The vet has prescribed a pain-killer / anti-inflammatory for two weeks. After that I’ll take her back in for a re-evaluation.
This morning when I took her out of her run, I couldn’t even tell there had been a problem yesterday. I took her for a walk instead of letting her run around on her own. She fought her leash the whole time and did her best to run off on her own.
So all in all, she is doing much better. I will just have to keep an eye on her hips and see how things go.
Still… fingers crossed.
Well, she’s not really bad, she’s hurt. I went to take her out of her run this morning and she wouldn’t get up. She is favoring her hips. She was fine last nite when I put her up. I am not sure what is wrong. She is at the vet’s right now. They are going to sedate her and take x-rays.
Keep your fingers crossed.
So this weekend was pretty productive. I was able to clear a couple items off of my list, of course, I have a couple new things to add, but that’s life, right? Clear one thing off, add three?
I was also able to fix a couple small bugs in Talon’s color pod. I still want to add the colors to a database so that his progress can be viewed over the entire school year.
I started cutting up the fallen trees in the yard. I also took down a couple that were damaged when the original trees fell. There was a lot to cut up. Most of it is completed, I just need to start loading up the trailer for tree disposal. I’ll keep a few bits for firewood, but it looks like a few of the trees actually have a fungus on them. I sure as hell do not want that burning in my fireplace, come winter.
Before starting on the trees, I doused myself mosquito spray, even going so far as to spray my face. Note to self and others: DO NOT spray bug repellent on your face! My lips started tingling after about 10 minutes. That could not have been good.
Oh well. I should get back to work..
Ah, busy I have been. In between working on the kitchen floor, I have been able to squeeze in a bit of time to work on new cages for the
reptiles. I have two knocked out so far. I have Corona housed in the larger (4′x 2′ x 2′)
cage. I will probably put Razz (pictured below) into the top one for now. I hope to be able to knock out one
or two a week. Now that I have located the materials I have been looking for, production
of the cages is quick and cheap. Cheap, I say, very cheap. Now that I like.
Hell, if I get into a groove making them, perhaps I can sell a few? *shrug* You want one?
That’s right, I said it. The bird flu will be here soon and we are all going to die. So screw it, go ahead and max out your credit cards, open up
as many new ones as you can. Stop paying your bills, except of course, utilities for the time being. Live it up, though. We probably only have another year,
two at the most. Get on with it.
I should get on with it, but I’m not feeling all that motivated at the moment. I am not particularly tired, but I have no interest in staying up late. OMG,
I am getting old.
Did I mention Brandy, the troublesome goofy dane got out of her pen the other day? I am so tired of dealing with this, it is driving me crazy. And, of course,
everytime Brandy gets out, one of the neighbors phones animal control on her. Bastards! If I don’t find out who did it, I will just destroy them all.
Muwahahahahaha. So… I think Brandy jumped over the gate this time, as it looked like it was sagging just a tad. I have now secured the air space above
the gate now as well. Fingers crossed this keeps her in. Animal control left a note and threatened us with fines in excess of $400. Bastards, threaten me
will ya? We shall see *digs potatoe canon out of garage* I’m ready!
I would advise against just showing up at the house. Phone first, for your safety.
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what if you can shed your skin?