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[Loren]

Hi Jerry!
I just got back from a trip down south for a few days myself.
I feed live pinks sometimes too- I figure there cant be alot of oxygen in a snakes digestive tract, so they die really fast.
Probably just as fast as constriction.

[Bay_area]

Hi Jerry!
I feed live pinks sometimes too- I figure there cant be alot of oxygen in a snakes digestive tract, so they die really fast.

Never see them move once they are down...LOL! I am sure they die right away.

[Stefan-A]

Never see them move once they are down...LOL! I am sure they die right away.

Probably too tight to move in there.. or to inhale.

[ssssnakeluvr]

wanderings have been known to throw a coil or two around mice....mainly to hold them while eating....their saliva also acts like a tranquilizer on mice.

[Stefan-A]

wanderings have been known to throw a coil or two around mice....mainly to hold them while eating....their saliva also acts like a tranquilizer on mice.

I think I read somewhere that they're probably the most venomous garter.. And garter venom is neurotoxic.

And according to somebody, it's real constriction. I don't know, I'm still looking for scientific articles on both subjects.

But I still have the picture of the vagrans constricting/restraining a mouse and it might just be my imagination, but their enlarged teeth seem bigger than the ones on my sirtalis. And they definitely feel a lot stronger than sirtalis when you handle them. In my humble opinion.

[Bay_area]

I think I read somewhere that they're probably the most venomous garter.. And garter venom is neurotoxic.

I have heard that too. The mice are dead by the time he is finished eating, so there maybe something to that

[Bay_area]

The Coast Garter was still looking hungry today, so I gave him a couple more mice...gone in seconds