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They play fetch!?!

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  • 09-01-2008, 07:39 AM
    susi´s trainer
    Re: They play fetch!?!
    hi!
    thanks for posting my video here, cause that's why i found your site! it's hard to find german speaking sites about asfs (i´m from austria and living in berlin), so i'm really glad i found you!

    susi (the fetching rat) is my most aggressive female, the other one on the video (grey-eared) is a tame male. susi kills anything that moves before even noticing what it was (gess that's why she likes balls so much :oops:), unfortunately she fetched another females lip tonight:O, doesn't look good...
    http://up.picr.de/1264186.jpg
    ...but this one was lucky, a few weeks ago susi killed another female within a few seconds. she's quite heavy (over 120g although she's not fat) compared to my other femals, which come from a different line (smaller and more likely to flee than to bite).
    right now i'm resocializing her to the group again, which btw. only works in a shower cabin full of dog hair (susi freezes for fear then and doesn't fight).
    http://up.picr.de/1264332.jpg

    btw i don't keep ball-pythons, just a few corns. my asfs are more pets, i mainly keep (and train! :D) mice...
  • 09-01-2008, 09:14 AM
    frankykeno
    Re: They play fetch!?!
    Welcome to BPNet. We have a number of colubrid keepers and breeders here. Your work with the ASF's (which I keep as feeders) is amazing.

    So what's up with the dog hair? Does the scent of what they perceive as a predator distract that female from attacking others? I've noticed in watching our ASF's colonies that there seems to be a definite pecking order in the enclosure with a ranking female at the head of it. If she's out of sorts, everyone hides fast even the poor male.
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