Yes, some do. No telling what yours will do, you'll have to wait & see once she's fully grown. She may or may not. My 11 year-old Florida girls never bred...Originally Posted by FollowTheSun
But they sure are trying to tell me something...(it's their brothers I have in another room). They should slow down & quit this nonsense around "middle age".
I don't think anyone knows why some snakes do this & others don't...even live bearing snakes like rosy boas will sometimes do slugs, & either type can (rarely) work
up to producing live young via parthenogenesis. I assume the slugs are "practice".It's thought to be how isolated snakes can manage to pull their species back
from extinction when no mates of the opposite gender are available. I have to wonder if any pheromones make it from room to room here to influence this? I think
that's possible, but then why don't my other snakes respond the same way? I have pairs of others that have never bred also, some in much closer proximity.
BTW- I've had many other rat snakes in the past (various kinds, & some like yours), & MOST un-bred females do not do slugs.
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