Re: New here- questions on purchasing first bp
Do you ever wonder Dave is perhaps Sarge is coiled there smirking to himself thinking "if I just pretend to be uninterested that large hairless monkeylike creature will do such funny things! how terribly interesting!" hehehehehehe
Re: New here- questions on purchasing first bp
Oh, my..... well, the whole family already thinks I'm insane so no loss if I have to go there...
Then again, I have to remind myself...it'll be my DAUGHTER's snake...let HER do it. :D
So anybody want to hazard a guess as to how long it'll be before I have to get my OWN bp? LOL.
Re: New here- questions on purchasing first bp
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Originally Posted by junko
Oh, my..... well, the whole family already thinks I'm insane so no loss if I have to go there...
Then again, I have to remind myself...it'll be my DAUGHTER's snake...let HER do it. :D
So anybody want to hazard a guess as to how long it'll be before I have to get my OWN bp? LOL.
Well for starters the answer to the last question is about 10 minutes after your daughter gets her snake, you'll be wanting your own (that is if you haven't already decided that really it costs next to nothing to ship two snakes in a box instead of one and another set up isn't that pricey and....lol).
As far as the dancing about with a dead rodent on a stick thing you can alway use this as a parenting tool. Think about it June, your daughter is 11...almost a teenager! What a perfect way to adjust her attitude in the future. She acts up....you offer to show all her "cool" friends the Dead Rat Boogie! Heck I have 3 teenagers and a 5 year old myself. I'll use anything it takes to keep the crew in line (they've a tendency to mutiny!).
Re: New here- questions on purchasing first bp
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Originally Posted by junko
Oh, my..... well, the whole family already thinks I'm insane so no loss if I have to go there...
Then again, I have to remind myself...it'll be my DAUGHTER's snake...let HER do it. :D
So anybody want to hazard a guess as to how long it'll be before I have to get my OWN bp? LOL.
june when i came to this forum... i was researching a snake for my son... he ended up deciding he didn't want one and i had fallen in love with ball pythons so i got one for myself anyways LOL
now i have a dozen snakes :P
my advice to you... get a female rather than a male. if for any reason you need to rehome or sell your snake (heaven forbid but it does happen) - finding a home for a female is no problem... but finding one for a male is near impossible. so... start off with a female! :sunny:
Re: New here- questions on purchasing first bp
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Originally Posted by recycling goddess
my advice to you... get a female rather than a male. if for any reason you need to rehome or sell your snake (heaven forbid but it does happen) - finding a home for a female is no problem... but finding one for a male is near impossible. so... start off with a female! :sunny:
Is this because of breeding reasons or are males undesirable for another reason?
EDIT: I should say "Hard to rehome" rather than "undesirable." :D
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Originally Posted by junko
Is this because of breeding reasons or are males undesirable for another reason?
EDIT: I should say "Hard to rehome" rather than "undesirable." :D
Normal aka no special genetics males are not particularily needed in the breeding scheme of things dear but they make wonderful pet snakes. They tend to stay smaller than the females and sometimes that's more desirable in a pet snake (personal perference really and some males do get quite hefty).
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I'm told sarge is big for his age, i hope my petstore havent fibbed to me again and he is actually a she - if thats the case ill have to spend the next week apologising to it for calling it Sarge!
I'm already setting up equipment to house a second snake maybe in a couple months time once I am sure I am capable of looking after sarge correctly - its a real addiction :S
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Just my first feeding experience:
I got my first BP last saturday and he was used to live prey; I don't know how old he is because the CITES will be sent to me in the next days, but he was born in 2006 and weighs 162 grams.
Yesterday I bought a frozen mouse (20 grams), let it defreeze, heat a little bit and offered to the BP using tongs (I tried holding him by the tail, then between the shoulders and moving him around), but he was not interested, so I left the mouse next to his warm hide.
This morning the mouse was gone :sunny:
As you all will know very well, I feel much better and relaxed knowing that he can feed on frozen preys. :2cent:
