Halloween Trick or Treat?

[anji1971]

Well now, if I can share chocolate with a snake, then bring it on!!!!!!!!

BTW, thanks to those of you who shared some info about working with the venomous snakes; interesting, but I think I'll leave them to you to take care of!

[RZL36]

Well buzztails only like fine chocolates from Europe. Ironically they hate American chocolate.

That is why they are so cranky. It's some sort of sugar deficiency. Feed them some chocolate and you can free handle them like a kingsnake.

[anji1971]

Well it just so happens that I like fine Belgian chocolate, so ..........does anyone have a spare rattler around for me to bond with?????????

[RZL36]

Would you by chance know if you can keep hots in Canada? Or is it specific to province?

[anji1971]

I haven't the foggiest, but if I can get up the ambition, I'll (gulp) research it, and let you know. Somehow, I highly doubt it's allowed. I know here in Windsor, any exotic pet is not allowed, even corns and kings, not that people all follow that I'm sure....

[RZL36]

James, what were you feeding your easterns? Were they getting rabbits? There is nothing like seeing that.

I feed f/t, but if I kept anything front fanged I would have to give it live treats every now and again. The miracle of venom, you know. It just blows my mind how powerful that stuff is.

I had a rear fanged Asian vine snake that took about an hour to kill an anole. Very boring stuff.

[adamanteus]

I always used rats, but real big ones! I never used live food, but as I would warm the rat to body temperature the Rattler would often think it was live and strike anyway. Very impressive to witness close to!

[RZL36]

I could imagine how impressive it must be. You must've been using some very large rats. Did they hook well? Very interested in individual crotalus temperaments.

[adamanteus]

My Easterns were actually very calm, steady snakes, most of the time. Easy to hook in and out of the viv (except that they are pretty heavy on the end of a hook!). But once they caught scent of food they changed completely! They could move surprisingly quickly and the strike was lightning fast!

An interesting and peculiar little thing..... they hated the smell of 'CK one' (the aftershave), it would set them off coiling and buzzing, you could here them down at the bottom of the garden!

Miss them. There is a (pretty crappy) photo of one of them on a thread somewhere...or check my gallery.

[adamanteus]

Actually, it was in my 'private' album, so I'll re-post it.



Sorry it's such poor quality.