Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations..?

[Lori P]

Wow Laura, that's pretty cool!! Neat looking eggs.

[Lori P]

Ugh, and this is what I woke up to this morning (this is my back yard):



Brrrrr. It's pretty, but that's enough for me for this year. LOL The dogs had a ball playing in it tho... the puppy we have who is neurologically damaged (he rides the short bus, lol) was PETRIFIED and then eventually decided that white stuff wasn't going to eat him and he played, too. :-)

[enigma200316]

I like it, what a nice pic to have..............

[Lori P]

Oh good grief... so I decided to change out Desdemona's tank (she's the kingsnake) today to the Care Fresh bedding. So I started pulling everything out of her tank... and after all was out, I hadn't seen her. So I start digging in the aspen... nothing!!! So of course I panic... she is NOWHERE, GONE, and I keep looking and looking and I can't find her...

I'm thinking the whole time about when the baby milksnake did this to me-- she had crawled up under and into that one fake rock decoration. But Des doesn't have anthing like that in her tank!! The only two things in her tank that are possible to crawl into and not be seen are her damp hide box (which I've emptied) and the goat skull:



So I look all over the skull, but I mean, it's a SKULL, you can see all around and thru it... or can you? And then I peer, for like the 10th time, into the brain cavity...




And there she is, the rotten little so-and-so. I'd missed her before. And I couldn't get a good pic of her in there, but if you look on the right side you can see some black and white.

Oh, the brat!! She scared me to death!! I swear I could hear her snickering... :-)

[drache]

do I ever know the feeling
at least you had some very legitimate moments of panic
you'll never believe the dumb panic I went into a couple of weeks ago
Jeff's brother had given us one of those fake rock hides for christmas and I had filled it with damp moss and put it into the tank with the new kingsnake
except when I went to look for the snake the next time, I didn't remember, and I totally freaked when I couldn't find the snake by sifting through the care fresh
I also couldn't find the snakes damp hide (likely a zip-lock food container with a hole cut in the lid)
I was devastated
I was totally convinced that last time I changed the water in the tank I had taken the snake out in the damp hide and then forgotten to put it back in the tank
and then of course, at some point, I would have just composted the contents
man - did I have a big hole of loss
so I went to just toss stuff back in the tank, and I noticed this rock I couldn't remember . . .

[Loren]

Well Lori, thats the neat thing about snakes. Just think about how many might really be out there in the wild when you are hiking, that you never see but walk right by. I'm sure I've just missed many of the animals on my wish list to find.

[Stefan-A]

I think almost everybody has managed to lose a snake in the terrarium at some point. The first thing my parietalis female did, was to squeeze her way in between the floors. I had raised the floor of the terrarium I was keeping my snakes in, and between the real floor and the upper one, was a 21mm high "crawl space". The male hadn't found it during the 6 or so months he had been living there, but it took the female about a minute to squeeze through in a corner where I hadn't cut the upper floor that precisely. I wouldn't have found her, if her nose hadn't been sticking out.





I ended up bored and having too much spare time, again and here's the result:

[Lori P]

Loren, that's what Jamie and I were talking about... snakes are masters of finding the tiniest, coziest hiding spots. I was thinking of all the times we've walked way back in the woods and come across deer or fox carcasses... who knows who had taken up residence in their little craniums?!!!

Rhea... I have to apologize sincerely. Sigh... this always happens... my blondness is creeping across this board now. LOLOL Just teasing you.

[Lori P]

ROFLMAO Stefan!!!!!!