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I feel a little silly making a whole thread for this, but: I've had Cerberus for six years and this was the first time he'd done a full on, RAWR I'M MAD strike. I was taking him out to feed him and I guess he was not very happy about something. He held on for a long time, but as you can see...

Quick background since Canadian politics almost never comes up here: Jack Layton passed away a couple years ago. He was the beloved leader of the New Democratic Party, a left wing party that had never garnered more than a few seats in Parliament, but managed to explode into the official...

Throughout the political threads, a few posters here bring up Libertarianism as a preferable method of governing and I would like to have a conversation about it. I'll say up front that I don't agree with it as a political or economic goal, but I very much used to. To start off, we should...

So I recently moved and my snake hasn't eaten in three weeks because the only pet store in the place I moved to that carried feeder mice had no frozen in stock. I just learned that the order that was supposed to arrive today didn't and they wouldn't be getting any more frozen mice for two more...

I'm moving in a couple weeks and it's going to take 2 days to drive to the new city (Moving to Yellowknife in Subarctic Canada! Woo!) I am not allowed to bring Cerberus, my corn snake, into the motel I'm staying at on the way. Does anyone have any advice on the best way to keep Cerberus warm...

I was checking Cerberus yesterday and noticed that one of his scales looks damaged. Almost as if he caught it on something. It's loose and the surface looks like the scale is starting to wrinkle. He didn't show any reaction when I gently slid my thumb over it, so it's not causing him pain that I...

A buddy of mine at work is talking about adopting a python from the Calgary Humane Society, but we're not sure what kind of python it is. Here's the page, can anyone ID this snake? http://www.calgaryhumane.ca/Page.aspx?pid=291

I'm starting this thread just as a check on my snake's overall progress and my care for him. I bought him in April of '07 and he was tiny back then. No more than a couple months old, I think. Anyway, I figure he's about 2.5 years old, just shy of 4 feet long (He's longer than his viv, which is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBBw9E2Q_aY (No, the video has nothing to do with NaNo, I just think everyone should see it. :P) National Novel Writing Month So November is creeping up on us and I'm getting pumped for this year. I'm going with Steampunk this time, a genre I've never even...

I don't often start threads, but a discussion on another forum about police brutality that started around a cop literally shoving a taser in someone's anus before shocking the victim, this video was linked. (Note, there are parts that are horrifically graphic)...

My friends and I like to play with cameras and flashes triggered by sound or movement. The other day we set up a rig with a laser that would trigger a flash system when the laser was blocked. That is, when a drop of water passed by the laser it would trigger the flash system. We introduced a...

I know, I'm bad for not taking Cerberus outside more, but I finally took him to the garden the other day. :) That last picture is the first time I have ever seen him puff up. I think he was feeling very exposed. :) He was still mellow when I picked him up, though. Sometimes it amazes me...

One of the things that has come out of the recent success I've seen is a new appreciation for where I live. I live in some of the most beautiful country in the world. I say that not having traveled much, but I believe it. I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Behind the downtown skyline you...

Not so long ago things were pretty dismal. I ended up in the ER with chest pains and during my stay passed out on the hospital bed while sitting up. Soon after I had a kidney stone. I've struggled with my weight all my life and as of November '08 was at a lifetime high of 348 lbs. Over the...

I usually change out Cerb's water when I feed him so he's outside of the viv when I take the water bowl out. Last time I fed him, though, I forgot since I was in a hurry. Well, a couple days later I realized I hadn't given him fresh water, so I quickly did that. Of course, when I took the water...

10 years. That is exactly 1 decade. That is also the length that my favorite webcomic has been in operation. I am writing this thread in celebration. (From Wikipedia) I started reading the comic about '02 or '03 I think, but I've not missed a single comic since. I re-read the archives now and...

I weighed him yesterday. 275g! So he gained almost 100g since I last weighed him a couple months ago. Here's some pics! He usually doesn't constrict his prey since I feed him F/T. It's been a little longer than usual since his last feeding, though, since I ran out of mice and was only able...

Does anyone have any idea why people type in all caps? I mean, I've thought about it and I can't really come up with any reason that makes sense. Writing in all caps makes posts harder to read and understand. Yahoo news comments are horrendously bad for this. :( I mean, even on this board...

I use the Munson plan as a guide since it seems to have a lot of support on this board, however, I have a bit of a concern. Cerberus is a little over three feet long and was 168g at last weighing a few weeks ago. I feed him two hoppers every 7 - 8 days. Last night when I fed him I noticed I...

Oh no, what's that? It's a monster! OMG RUN! Oh wait, he's just a little scaredy cat. When I put him on the counter he did what snakes do - found the first thing to hide in. :P I weighed him for the first time today: 168g. 14 or 15 months old now I think, is that a good weight? According...