King Ratsnake/Keeled Ratsnake/Stinking Goddess

My husband had a fail at the Zerkle Reptile table today at Tinley. This unnamed boy is a juvenile King Ratsnake. The Zerkle have so many cool Old World ratsnakes, I think the hard part was deciding.
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yay, way to fail!!! 😀😀😀 LOL
lovely pick-up!

What an amazing addition! Very impressive.

Thanks, he's a really handsome boy. Seems pretty mellow so far.

We didn't realize until we were headed home that this was a Stinking Goddess. OTOH, Rob and Amy were very open and honest about which of their snakes were grumpy or pooping on everybody, and they didn't say anything about these guys (they had three when we were there), so I'm not too worried. But I did tell my husband that if he musked on the way home he'd owe me a new purse. :) (well, maybe it was - LL Bean discontinued the bag I'm currently using as a purse).


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nice pickup!

so is this a snake eater?

Yes, they will eat other snakes. He's been eating rats, we'll see how he does on Thursday.


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Buford hasn't musked AFAIK, but Whooo! his enclosure has a definite pong all its own! He'll be getting complete substrate changes more often than the other snakes.


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Bump for 350z.

"Do you *mind*?!? Taking a bath here!" (taken through the door, dark enclosure):
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Typical view of Buford:
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Appreciate the bump. Good looking kingrat. I think I'm gonna take the risk on a juvenile and see what I get after the ontogentic color change.

Last night was feeding night for the colubrids. Due to an outbreak of blue-ness in the downstairs snakes, Buford got a bonus small mouse. I put his rat pup with the nose in the entrance to his hide, as usual, then the mouse. Buford Did! Not! Approve! and hissed struck, knocking it aside. I tried again, same result. I called him an idiot and left it. Shortly thereafter one rodent was gone and he was finishing the other. [emoji57]


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"...and outbreak of blue-ness.." Love it. Suffering same here. No one around to hang with.

In desperation, ordered another snake.

I found Buford taking a bath Saturday night:
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I really need to go through and clean enclosure doors. [emoji57]

He was staying in hos bowl, so I got a couple shots with the door open. He Did. Not. Approve. and I was stood well back - he's got a good strike range from there!

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And this morning I looked up and saw a snoot on the edge of the door. Buford was supervising while I got ready for work.
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Husband had Mr. Grumpy out last night. This morning he was buried under the aspen on the right side of his cage, I suspect he was sulking about being taken out - usually he hangs around the water bowl or the hide near it on the left side of the cage (if he's not re-arranging the aspen when nobody's watching). [emoji846]

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