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#1871688
Farmer 99
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OMG!!!!! 
I havent posted much on here latley because been busy on the bp forum lol. but two things look at the drama thread titled girraffe morph on the bp forum! but for real i was going to inform u about one of the photos i saw on the venomous forum, (theres a cobra eating a amel) sad sad
LS
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09/30/08 05:01pm
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#1872558
Scaly
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Message To: Farmer 99 In reference to Message Id: 1871688
OMG!!!!!
I believe it says that the little corn snake died of natural causes, sadly it is just a fact of nature that cobras feed on other snakes, and rodents are not their usual meal in the wild, I was shocked when I saw that picture too. You know, people who love mice and rats and such think were cruel for owning snakes that eat them. I guess its just the circle of life.
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10/01/08 06:13pm
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#1873021
Jessica71
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Message To: Scaly In reference to Message Id: 1872558
OMG!!!!!
I didn’t see anything written about how the corn snake died, but yes, people do feed non feeding or deformed corns to other snakes, sometimes kingsnakes. It is "natural", really, because I know from experience there are some baby corns that just seem to be on a hunger strike no matter what you do, and in the wild they would be eaten. Shame - pretty little corn, but that’s life sometimes. That’s a beautiful BP - silly, childish way the thread went though. 
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10/02/08 08:39am
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Concolor1
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Message To: Jessica71 In reference to Message Id: 1873021
I Made a Joke About It Over There . . .
And caught a lecture from one of them who didn’t have much of a sense a humor (hey, it I were handling deadly critters a lot I might be pretty uptight myself. But shoot, I keep my pets to help me relax; my job is stressful enough). I’ll probably stick to just peeking in there from time to time even if I am old enough to be that guy’s father and caught my first rattler before he was born. I’m not interested in keeping venomous (although I might get a Gila Monster if I could afford one, which I can’t, and the local regs allowed it, which they don’t), and I think too many are keeping them who probably shouldn’t be, but hey, if it keeps them out of the bars and off the streets, it’s probably a good thing... And to the extent they contribute to knowledge about reptiles, that’s a good thing as well. But they are also easy targets for the histrionic sorts . . .
My reaction involved seeing the baby corn get et; last year I sweat blood to hatch out five eggs (out of maybe a dozen from a first time mother, and I was a first time godfather myself), and this year I lost the clutch of eggs to an incubator problem, so it was a little hard for me to watch something like that.
But as I posted here, my nine-year old daughter gets a little upset with knowing the mice she wants to make pets of serve as snake food; it’s colored her perceptions a little (and her mother, whom she lives with, probably doesn’t help); she was devastated when the first snake I got--a Sinaloan Milk--escaped and wasn’t recovered. Now she’s a little indifferent, but I picked up a baby gopher hatchling at a show two weeks ago that she is fairly taken with . . .
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10/02/08 02:34pm
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