Thanks robin, deb, and adee...

I love this girl. I have always said that if I ever HAVE to take a wife, like it becomes law or something, then she is the ONE!

I cannot wait to see her babes and I have my fingers crossed that I get 9 healthy hatchlings from her. To raise even one of her daughters up will be the best feeling ever.

She is just gotten her tone back after laying and is eating up a storm. She was a funny girl after she laid. She was a bit loose in her tone and wasn't hitting her rats right, so the rats would get tangled in her coils and would travel into her hide.

She would dart in, try and find them, and when she couldn't get them, she'd come out, stare at me through the tub and hiss at me hysterically.

I have never seen snake rage... but that was a fine example! And really, what was I supposed to do about it?

I had to explain to her... "I would like to help you, but you seem to be a bit angry at the moment. Once you calm down, I will glady reach in find your rat... but at the moment Missy, I am not comfortable with your emotional state to intervene."

I actually gave her a second rat, and when she was busy eating it, I dug through her coils and retrieved the wayward snack.

Ok... babbling... just killing time till these eggs PIP!

Bruce