Uncommon Snake Foods

[Faunaofthenorth]

lol she is a beast, except shes not that thick, its really odd, shes long as hell, like i think the last time i measured her she was 53 point something inches, and when she eats her skin can stretch more than some pythons can, at least the ones at our old local pet store, and yea for a while she was eating nothing but baby stillborn rabbits. At that time she would not take anything else, she loves fish and frogs but NOPE!! she would not touch them she would literally launch out of the cage with her mouth agape for the rabbit, i wasnt even expecting her to respond to them. I didnt think they would trigger that much of a stimuli, but i was definitely wrong. Im in iowa for the weekend and when i get back ill feed her and take pics and video.

[Lee]

Lol oh. My nearly 3 footish female wandering takes good sized rat pups now and again, although I've been wanting to try a small rat for somet time now as she can easily take large mice... I'm waiting for the squirrel in my backyard, wonder how she would respond to squirrel parts? lol...
(It eats my vegitables! Just today it grabbed one of our growing watermelon (softball size) and tugged it off the vine and tried to make off with it.) I'ma shoot the thing dang it.

[Faunaofthenorth]

Actually about the squirrel thing, when i first caught her next door at my neighbor's, she had a HUGE!! lump in her and my neighbor said that a few days before, he had seen a mother squirrel chirping and lunging and jerking at that snake. He told me he watched it slither down from a small tree that had very condensed and intwined branches where he had seen a squirrel's nest, and when she came down she had a huge lump in her and it was at least 8 inches long according to him. AND!!! last summer i went to helena, montana and me and my family went to a ghost town, and the DNR agent told me she and a bunch of co-workers a day before, were walking by one of the creeks when she spotted a giant garter snake (not the species), and it had a live squirrel down its mouth, about half way she says, and i didnt believe her until a man who was there showed me a crappy resolution picture of it and I'D be DAMNED!!! yup it was...only it wasnt a full grown squirrel, but that snake was at least 6 feet long...so giant common garters do exist other than the two that i captured. i wish i could have caughten it or at least taken some video.

[Faunaofthenorth]

You know what im gonna do? Im gonna start a new thread so that ppl can tell all of their weird and awesome garter snake stories, because i have a crap load of them. I have experienced many odd things over the last 12 years of snake hunting. So ,anyone who is interested tell them if they wish.

[Thamnophis]

Some 20/25 years agoo we (Reptile zoo Iguana) got piglets from a farmer.The mother of the piglets layed on them. We gave them at our larges pythons and, cut in pieces, at our monitors. Nowadays this is forbidden (giving away piglets when they are dead) to prevent diseases.Another farmer brought us some freshly killed, newborn cats.We tried to feed these also to the pythons, but they would not eat them. When they smelled them they fled. Smell of a predator, I presume.