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Ophiuchus rhea
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Re: Force Feeding
now why does that bring the term bulimia to my mind?
I think having stuffed something down one's throat seems about as pleasant as upchucking it something about the chicken . . .
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Juvenile snake
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: SE Wisconsin
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Re: Force Feeding
I reread the chapter and it was a 19 foot reticulated python. They forced fed it for 20 years and it was a mixture of ground rabbit and horsemeat (although I'm sure a chicken or two proabaly made it into the mix as well) about 13 pounds at a feeding. he didn't say how often the fed it. They had crowds of up to 3000 people watching the feedings at times. After one such feeding Marlin recalled a conversation between zoo patrons looking at the snake in its enclosure "Man, thats one big snake right there" the first one said. "that's not a real snake" the second one said "I just saw them blowing it up a little while ago"
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