Ace's first small rat...

The little pest...it took about an hour, and 3 attempts, before he struck and coiled at the head. The first two times, he'd go for the rat right away, but instead of going for the really warm head, he grabbed onto the arm of the rat and then half-a$$ed coiled it. So I waited until he got bored of gnawing foot, and then took it from him and warmed the head up one last time. Then I made sure I bent the rats arms back so they weren't anywhere near the head, and I laid it in front of him, head first, and moved it towards him and he finally got the head. So yeah, what usually takes maybe 10-20 minutes took an hour just to find the head. Then it took him about 5 minutes to swallow it. I picked the smallest one in the batch cuz I didn't know if he'd be able to handle the others I have, but he took this one down with ease. Hardly left a bulge in his stomach. :eek:

Anyway, here's some pics of his 3 attempts at finding the head...

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/5...rat14qf.th.jpg
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http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/3...at177fd.th.jpg<--one of my favourites
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/9...at183ik.th.jpg
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/2...at211oo.th.jpg<--I love his pattern from overhead...reminds me of a spider ball sorta...
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/2...at224fv.th.jpg<--finally got the head :rolleyes:
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Sorry for the bad quality of the pics. Ace kept moving around of course, and I don’t have the steadiest hands, lol. I wanted to get some pics of him finishing the rat off, and a "yawn" pic, but he was getting flinchy after a while(I would too if I had a camera an inch from my face while I'm trying to eat), so I let him be. :)

Gosh he's a gorgeous boy! Guess he didn't know it's not nice manners to play with one's food LOL.

I love watching our snakes with their prey. Some will grab the tail and toss or flip their rat around a bit before settling in to eat. This week Ri Ri decided to drag her wean rat into her water dish and play dippy dip with it then snarf it down...who knows why but heck if they eat...I'm a happy lady! LOL Maybe Ri has decided water with eau de wean rat is a nice after dinner drink.



~~Jo~~

wow thats cool he seems pretty small to eat a rat but i dont know.

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Gosh he's a gorgeous boy! Guess he didn't know it's not nice manners to play with one's food LOL.

I love watching our snakes with their prey. Some will grab the tail and toss or flip their rat around a bit before settling in to eat. This week Ri Ri decided to drag her wean rat into her water dish and play dippy dip with it then snarf it down...who knows why but heck if they eat...I'm a happy lady! LOL Maybe Ri has decided water with eau de wean rat is a nice after dinner drink.

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Haha, well my two haven't done anything that weird. Pelota used to always eat her rats in weird positions or coil them up really strange(such as her "Nessy" pose I posted last January), and Ace ate a rat pup in mid air(he was on the ground, but he held the front half of his body up off the ground and tried swallowing the rat as it was hanging from his mouth off in the air). The eau de wean rat thing sounds like a sight to see. :P

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wow thats cool he seems pretty small to eat a rat but i dont know.

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Well I just feed him a rat as thick as his thickest part(mid-body), and currently the small rats from canadianfeeders.com is perfect size for him. They're 50-70 gram rats, so they're small small rats I suppose, lol.

Well if I was more observant I'd have noticed your location.....hey there! how's it goin' eh?

Oh how I miss home and Tim Hortons and the word "eh" some days!


~~Jo~~

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Well if I was more observant I'd have noticed your location.....hey there! how's it goin' eh?

Oh how I miss home and Tim Hortons and the word "eh" some days!


~~Jo~~

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How's it goin ya hoser there eh? I'm about to head off to watch the Maple Leafs hockey game eh?

Apparently there's some Tim Hortons in US too? I just found this out recently, lol. I thought Timmy was just in good ol' Canada. It's not as special now. :(

Michigan..that's just a short drive across the border from me. Haven't been in Michigan much though...just in Detroit a handful of times for car shows or school trips back in the day. :)

Well fire up those husky dogs, shove the polar bears away from the doorway and get your butt back to Michigan for a visit eh (I'll have an extra large double double and a box of Timbits and a crueller please!) LOL

Yes apparently there are Timmies somewhere in the United States of America but not here in northern Michigan *pitiful sobs* Can you believe I married an American and actually live geographically further north than where I was raised in southern Ontario, sad but true! (and I cheer for the Red Wings now...please try to not hate me too too much)


~~Jo~~

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(and I cheer for the Red Wings now...please try to not hate me too too much)

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I should get my huskies to rip you apart. :mad: Nah, sadly I used to root for the Wings back when I was like 10 years old. Only cuz my mom was the manager for our local Little Caesers and Illich is the owner of Little Caesers and the Wings(and countless other stuff...damn him). Then after years of working there, she finally "retired", and that Red Wings pressure was gone, and I fell in love with the Leafs. :clap:

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Well fire up those husky dogs, shove the polar bears away from the doorway and get your butt back to Michigan for a visit eh (I'll have an extra large double double and a box of Timbits and a crueller please!) LOL

Yes apparently there are Timmies somewhere in the United States of America but not here in northern Michigan *pitiful sobs* Can you believe I married an American and actually live geographically further north than where I was raised in southern Ontario, sad but true! (and I cheer for the Red Wings now...please try to not hate me too too much)


~~Jo~~

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OK, no one else is going to ask, so I will. Timmies????? What the heck are those? And double double and Timbits????

Oh, and Cody, I think that picture of Pelota would ALSO make a great BPOM entry!

Timmies is short for Tim Hortons. The world's best 24 hr coffee shop (chain of them actually and not snooty like Starbucks). Morning isn't morning where I came from unless you grab Timmies on the way into work!

Timbits are ummm lil donut balls...like ummm donut holes? They make them in every sort of flavor and filling...and they are dirt cheap! Yummmmmmmmmmm

Extra Large Double Double is double cream, double sugar coffee...big and sweet and mmmmmmmm good!

Okay now say after me and try to lose the southern accent....Hey there! Wanna go grab a Timmies! I gotta coupla bucks eh?

There you now know Timspeak LOL

Cody dare I even try to explain to them what a looney and a twooney are?


~~Jo~~

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Cody dare I even try to explain to them what a looney and a twooney are?
~~Jo~~

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Hey, you're on a roll, why not? LOL As long as it's appropriate for younger audiences! ;)

Im another canadian forced into this barbaric society they call america my heart bleeds for u franky we must stick together in this painful exile. but fear not i saw on south park that our royal brothers at arms are planning to sweep down and conquer america!


but seriously where in southern ontario are u from? i was born and raised in toronto (thornhill specifically) but my dad and his dad where bith born in hamilton

twooneys.....well... how can u explain twooneys???..u guyz remember when they interupted the winter olympics ( it was in Nagasaki) to make a public service announcement about them oohhhh this could be fun lets toy with them:neener:

I also remember when Toonies first came out and they had this problem where the middles kept falling out. Apparently if you put one in a freezer, then drop it on concrete, the middle would come out. I remember making a necklace out of the outer part. Fun. ;)

First, let me apologize to Cody for the hijacking of his thread.


For the rest of you Canadians, I just have this to say - HA!!!! Don't make me pull a Google search! With-holding information from me, how dare you??? :P

Here's what a Google search produced:

Looney (and Tooney): The Canadian one dollar coin has a picture of a loon in water, a bird known for its distinctive markings. When it was introduced in 1987 Canadians instantly dubbed the new coin the "loonie", playing on the image of a loon in water on the coin's reverse side, the nickname caught on and Canadian English gained a new word.
The Canadian two dollar coin (nick named the “toonie”) shows an adult polar bear in early summer on an ice floe. Native to northern Canada and the Arctic, the polar bear is North America’s largest land-based carnivore.

And Poutine? Well, let's just say, if you want to know how to make it, you can go Here to see how to make it. It's supposed to be delish!!!

Neener, neener, neener!!! :neener:

LOL Dang you Robin and you're amazing googling ability. You got it right about loonies and toonies. For awhile they did consider calling the two dollar coin the "two bear" but that never caught on so loonies and toonies they are!

I remember that stuff about the toonies and people making jewellery out of them after popping out the center bit. I do miss the joy of thinking I'm broke and then finding a forgotten stash of loonies and toonies that add up to quite a haul!

I was born in Toronto (North York), raised in Lindsay, Ontario, lived as far noth in Ontario as you can get by road and lived for a time in the Yukon but mostly I'm a southern Ontario girl at heart!

Poutine.....drooooooooooooooooooooool...another thing I miss from home! Along with a decent cup of cofee and socialized medicine that is LOL.


~~Jo~~

Man that just makes me wanna head to KFC and get one of there awesome poutines. I haven't had one in forever. :(

As for hijacking the thread, no problem. I was a bit concerned about how we messed up someones thread at first, then I realized it's my thread, so all is well. :cool:

Nice job on your ace eating the small rat!! btw how big is he?

He's 5 months old and roughly 300 grams last I weighed him. :) He's a little chubbo, lol

back to the hi jacking....

franky u meantioned socialized medicine it's great and all (if u forget abotu almost 50% taxes in ontario) but do u know that when u slip on the "unofficail ice rink " in the school yard and blow ur chin open and knock out ur first tooth that definatly was planning to enjoy its stay in ur mouth for at least another year, that u have to wait like 2 days to actually get it properly fixed! (they did the emegerncy stuff really quick then doped me up and sat me in a hospital for 2 days fun times:headbang: !!!!!!!!)

Kuuu Ruuu kooo koo ku roo kooo koooo!

Beauty eh.

I love my country, but I imported American for a wife.

You think CITIES is bad? You should see the paperwork I had to do on her.

Oooohhhhhhh, I'm telling!!! (you're gonna get in soooo much trouble) :neener:

Of course, when we lived in Arkansas my husband kept telling me I couldn't vote anymore and I was his property. :bonk: Bad husband!! :rolleyes:

You guys are a hoot!

Cody, those feeding shots are awesome.

BTW, since I'm from Minnesota I may as well be an honorary Canadian, we have aboot the same accent as some of you southern canadians.;)

Oddly I knew what you were talking about with the loonies and toonies. I've been to Canada a few times, and have even broken the middle out of a loonie. LOL

I like the film strip show. Nice touch eh? Good looking snake there also. (for the sake of your thread);)

Canada, ahhhh:shh:. Many good memories while I was in the service (US). The trips there were a riot and I must say the women were (and probably still are) quite the pleasant sight:floating:. Victoria and BC was the stomping ground (so don't shoot):doh: LOL.

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Victoria and BC was the stomping ground (so don't shoot):doh: LOL.

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Shoot with what? We can't exactly go down to our local Walmart here and buy an army tank like you folks.

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Kuuu Ruuu kooo koo ku roo kooo koooo!

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Bob and Doug Mackenzie!!!!!!!!

what was the name for the show?
u know how many future movie actors where on that? i can think of 3 right now
eugene levy (american pie dad)
and both bob and doug (i cant remember their real names)
it was like the SNL of canada

Strange Brew.

Well, that's the only movie Bob and Doug made.

They're actually news announcers. Any time you're up here you can see 'em on Channel 12 for the 6:00 news.

that was a movie they made

heres a quote from it..
Bob McKenzie: I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it.
friggin hilarious!!!!

u remember the 12 days of christmas?