Of Sneks And Mice

A blog for some of my critters! I am not an expert on any of them but I read and learn and want to know more. I found very little information on my newest snek so I thought to post his and mine’s progress at making him feel at home. If you happen to see I’m doing something wrong - please send me a message! (Please be kind though.)

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I CAN’T

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Hahahaha! @contentsofmyhead

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@burritobandita HEY - I kinda like her! But wonder if the middle child has tumblr....

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So we moved up to small rats for Mary Poppins and he got it down without any problems!! I loooove what his stripes do on his food baby!!

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It’s already dead, sweetheart, and I promise I’m not going to take it back...so stop with the stink eye...

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My scaly son what have you been doing?

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Freshly shed and eating like a horse again! I’m so happy!!!!

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HE SHED!! And he’s hiding at the moment - maybe in a day or so I can get a pic of him and his new clothes!

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LOOK WHO’S IN BLUE!!! I can’t wait to see how he sheds!!!!

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A very curious octopus.

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Watch this and be blessed

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Awww bae

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INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION!!

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Woohoo!!! Mary poppins ate dinner this week!!!!!! I’m so proud of my big boy!!!! Three month feeding strike….whew! Hopefully it’ll be a long time before he feels the need to do this again.

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Woohoo!!! Mary poppins ate dinner this week!!!!!! I’m so proud of my big boy!!!! Three month feeding strike....whew! Hopefully it’ll be a long time before he feels the need to do this again.

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This week’s adventure in having noodles. I missed double checking the latch on the enclosure and came home from school to find he had escaped. We turned furniture upside down - took the Christmas tree apart - and emptied shelves and the pantry. Nope. Nope. And nope. Ended up having to go to bed. Through the magic of social networking - a friend of my sister is a snake catcher (among other things too)! He volunteered to come over this evening and help search! About 15 minutes into it - he turns over the recliner chair and found my blue boy wrapped around the workings!! The chair sits over a warm air vent so Cyprus was just hanging out - soaking up the heat! I’m so relieved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He still hasn’t eaten but he hasn’t lost any weight this week.

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12/5/17 A quick water slither. He also likes to shit in his water. Which makes for quick clean ups.

We are starting week 3 of not eating. He’s at 203 grams. He goes through out his habitat - from High to low, warm to cool, hides to basking ledge. His energy is great and watches us very curiously when we are in the room. As far as I can tell - he’s content. Dunno why he’s not eating.

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11/30/17 This noodley boi weighs 204 grams. I finally got a deep enough bowl and was fast enough to grab a weight! The fuzzy potato on the floor is the big brother Stupid Cat (long story on the name). I’m pretty sure he’s trying to figure out how to snek. Cyprus was a good boy this evening and we had a nice visit even if I did have to keep directing him away from my sleeves and arm pits. Here’s hoping he eats this weekend.

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So this little shit may be starting a feeding strike. Week 2 and he turned his nose up at the exact same food, prepped the same way, presented the same way as when he ate last. I’m going to try to get a weight on him this evening - as soon as he comes out of his log. 😂😂😂

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Sunday evenings are feeding nights for Cyprus and his big sister Zazu (ball python). This was our fourth week of having him, so our fourth feeding. They both eat frozen mice/rats. Our procedure is to thaw/heat the mice in a mug of warm water with the little tails hung over the rim - like a mouse tea bag. Cyprus eats adult mice and Zazu eats medium rats.

Usually I’ll put their food in the tanks just before we go to bed and check in the morning the offerings have been eaten. If not, I remove it so they don’t eat it later after the carcass has had too much time to grow bacteria.

This week however, I was a couple hours ahead of schedule (not sure why….just happened) so I chucked in the food and Zazu came out like always - zeroing in fairly straight fashion as long as I left the room (she’s a shy eater). Cyprus however, came down off his perch rather quickly, and spent about 15 minutes just sniffing the durn thing. I had my camera set up to hopefully catch some footage of what I am told is a very large gape for the size of snake they are.

I don’t know if my camera put him off his food or what - but he went into his lower level hide and wouldn’t eat. He’d stick his head out and sniff again, just reverse and gooooo back inside then.

So I glumly took the camera away and left the room. His lights turned off a couple hours later and we went to bed.

I figured he would eat over night.

Nope. Had to remove the mouse.

So - I’ll go back to our usual routine this coming week and let Cyprus eat alone. In the dark.

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Mary Poppins is a very curious snek - when we were bringing him home in the car - I looked in the back seat and this is what I saw. He has continued to be very engaged and watchful of us moving about the house and through the room he is in. If for some reason, he gets spooked (we move too quickly or a noise), he hightails it so fast down off his ledge and into one of his two hides. He really enjoys being as high as he can get in his tank. He is a great buddy to have - just not overly crazy about being handled. But that’s another post. ;-)