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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 13, 2018 - 01:18pm PT
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Heidi found a stick & whapped the snake a couple times.
A flagrant violation of the Prime Directive
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 13, 2018 - 01:31pm PT
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And the end to Fritz's story is how the neighbor's garden is decimated and the gopher snake is in therapy.
You think rabbits scream just try putting a mouse in the microwave for 5-8 seconds before feeding it to a snake.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 13, 2018 - 02:54pm PT
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Ron! Per your summing up the incident:
And the end to Fritz's story is how the neighbor's garden is decimated and the gopher snake is in therapy.
Heidi really likes gopher snakes, but her heart went out to the baby bunny. Happily, the nearest neighbor to that launch site is about 30 miles away.
We do have a small population of gopher snakes that share our ranchette with us, as well as a small population of cottontails, whose young, both the snakes & Harley (the cat) eat. Apparently, the predation keeps our rabbit population small.
Here's a photo of Ralph, the gopher snake, in our lawn. (All our gopher snakes are named Ralph.)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 13, 2018 - 03:09pm PT
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Speaking of "Ralph".
Years ago a neighbor who raised a very valuable breed of rabbits found the headless body of his favorite rabbit on his front lawn. He went around the neighborhood to warn them that there was a weasel or something very vicious making the rounds.
About 2 minutes after he left my neighbor, Kurt, and I , Kurt's German shepherd got a weird look on its face and vomited the missing head.
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Aug 13, 2018 - 03:17pm PT
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If said mouse came from a pet store and the issues is you have no means of caring for the mouse, a return to the pet store is in order. The one I worked at would take the mouse back if something interfered with your ability to get to feeding the snake. You could also pick up supplies for keeping the mouse. We recomended this option because sometimes snakes unexpectedly start a shed and become temporarily blind. We had fairly cheap rigs. This was the 90s and you could get set up for about $20 then.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 21, 2018 - 05:26pm PT
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Anybody see Paul Manafort's $18K python jacket?
They should make him wear it in prison, and offer odds on how long he lasts.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Aug 21, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
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I have a friend who used to own about 7 pythons including a Burmese that weighed 125 lbs.
Rick is a muscular guy and used to handle it by himself.
One day it went for him and just about got him.
He never did a solo mission again.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Aug 22, 2018 - 06:21am PT
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So Lynn's gonna end up with a pet snake AND a pet mouse. That woman's gonna be running a regular petting zoo before long.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 22, 2018 - 08:06am PT
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A proper host should always keep a couple of mice around to feed unannounced visiting reptiles and varmints, according to Miss M. Stewart.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 22, 2018 - 08:18am PT
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Thawing out a rat for peanut today.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 22, 2018 - 08:33am PT
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Aug 22, 2018 - 01:45pm PT
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"Hey kid, wanna make $10?"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 23, 2018 - 10:13pm PT
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So Peanut just ate a Huge Rat tonight! Her tummy is so big!
Hang in there Tamara!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 24, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 24, 2018 - 09:33am PT
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Jaybro n' mouse, You two are delight full!
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Tamara Robbins
climber
not a climber, just related...
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2018 - 04:56pm PT
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LOL Brian and Jay..... good stuff. I actually managed to keep the mouse alive for the whole 12 days, have gotten word that snake successfully ate said mouse, and that's well and dandy. Did my part. ;)
PS Lynn: FROZEN mice, cough cough.... lol, cheers all!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 26, 2018 - 05:18pm PT
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Yay! Glad to hear it.
That bulge in her middle is the rat she ate on the 23rd!
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