I adopted an 8 year old female recently.

She had a case of scale rot last year, and is a super nice snake. The owner felt he could not give her the time or care she needed, so after 7 MONTHS of talking he decided to move her.

Super skinny this one. The vet had told him to feed her a small rat every 3 weeks... not because of her scale rot, but because that is all an adult snake needs.

Craziness.

But she is here and is eating like an absolute PIG!

She is on FT and has the most intense feed response I have ever seen in a BP.

I can just toss the rat in and she will hit it with with amazing force, tussle with it, then eat it.

I tossed her one on her second feeding and she didn't hit it ASAP so I thought she lightening up.

Nope. She cruised around her hide, eyed it up, raised up... wobbled a bit... retracted... then hit it like it was a live rat trying to elude her.

We have never laughed at a snake feeding before but she had us busting up.

She is a bad one this girl!

I expect her to shed off those scars and double in weight in no time.

Bruce

PS: I will get a few pics of her soon, but I am terrible for pics of new snakes. I like to just let them chill (for too long sometimes) before bugging them.