Are you ready for kevin?

[Gio]

Congrats! He's gorgeous. I'm glad he's fitting in so well, and maybe he'll mellow out a bit more in a few years.

I played with the idea of a carpet python for awhile before I got River, and I held a few in person. They definitely acted a lot like River did when she was a baby. She's still interested in getting into stuff, but with size she's gotten slower so that helps out. XD I still need to keep an eye on her, but she's not off my body in the blink of an eye anymore. haha The carpet I held was grabbing EVERYTHING within reach and I basically needed to be another branch for it crawl onto to get it back into its tank.

Thanks much!

He actually couldn't be any more mellow. This situation is quite different from what I've experienced with any of the others. Granted he is older than any snake I've brought in, but I expected a bit more anxiety and timid behavior. Not to be! He's never even postured to bite.

Last night he took a meal, a small rat. Nick told me he had not eaten in 3 weeks so I fed him and put him up.

This afternoon there was absolutely no lump in him. I don't recommend doing this as it goes against what you should do, but I went into the cage and decided to see how he was doing. He was curious, came toward me, I was expecting a bite, but instead he came out further and further.

I ended up having a short handling session and it was fantastic. I swear the Aussie snakes have something special going on.

Here are photos from today. Some of the other pictures make him look larger than he is. You can see here his head isn't a lot bigger than my thumb.


My advice for handling the semi arboreal snakes is to use an "acclimation branch/perch". Even though his head isn't big now, you can see the typical Bredli, bulldog head starting to show.




There are some new studies going on with this species. I'm very happy I went this route and am excited to see Kevin's progression.