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Found a red rat yesterday

I'm gonna have to try that technique with Star, i hate digging all over for her, and it is impossible to get her out of her tree hide withough picking it up, but then i have too move all the aspen away becasue I want the hide to stay flat on the aquarium bottom, oh well lol, she loves her tree hide though :)
 
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Wow, that's one awesome lookin' cornsnake!.. Keep us posted on how he's doing/progression thread..
 
Gorgeous Corn BTW! I never got to see any with such nice markings when I lived over there. Always had a lot of red and orange but minimal black if any.
 
Nanci said:
It kind of bothers me when you see WCs for sale at snake shops or at shows. Like, aren't there enough normals produced as by-products anyway? Plus those snakes are guaranteed to have a big parasite load. Is the kid that buys a cheap snake going to get it dewormed? Does he even know? Well, I guess that didn't help my arguement- at least in captivity, the snake gets treated. Maybe. I think it would be wrong for me to scour Florida for every cornsnake I could find and then keep it, but I don't think it's wrong to collect a single exceptional specimen. Especially one that is in a dangerous situation.
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It all depends where you catch the snakes The more moist swampy area's are more likely a snake is to carry something. I have caught my okeetees in 95 & 96 never did anything to them Their fine.. It is when they are stressed out from going to collector to wholesaler then to pet store. some they go through 2 to 3 hands before thye wholesaler and then they might go to anoher wholesaler in another state. If you get a freash caught animals, keep it isolated and by itself. keep the bedding super clean for at least 6 months and you should be fine . Now there are some nastys that you may bring into the collection . There is that chance. although your odd are on yiour side . Here is what I would do. I would keep all the wild caughts that are good looking keep the seperate away from your other animals. Breed them and then release them back into the wild or sell them. Keep the best babies and do the same ,release or sell them
 
KJUN said:
You have the BEST type of corns around here!
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You show me where they are KJ and I'll start believin they're the best. I haven't found a single on yet and slowinskii has been one of my most sought out species.
 
Buzzard said:
Normally I find my snakes that I post at the park where I work. However on my way to the truck from my apartment I saw the neighborhood cat jump at something and quickly retreat... So I couldnt help it, I had to check it out. And there balled up was a little red rat snake

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So now I have a problem...She is absolutely gorgeous. And I would love to keep her. She has yet to strike at me. and she allowed me to pick her right up... So to keep the cat from having a snack, I took her in, put her in a tank and was wondering what everone else thought of keeping wild?????
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I would keep her. If she really is going to be a pet for you, then that's cool. IDK if you are keeping her in the same room with other snakes, but you may not want to. She may have parasites.
 
Beautiful!
Wish I could just walk out my front door and see such a creature!
Most really interesting thing I get to see regularly is turtles, painted, and snappers.
I see people looking at me like I am off my stick as I always stop to pull them off the road whenever I see one crossing. I do have respect for them, a couple years back I was trying to persuade a snapper to get a move on and it bit the plastic scrapper end off my snow brush with no effort at all, glad it wasn't my fingers. I think the one reason I really like the turtles is because they are probable the closest thing to a dinosaur I will get to see.
 
freetv-5 said:
I see people looking at me like I am off my stick as I always stop to pull them off the road whenever I see one crossing. I do have respect for them, a couple years back I was trying to persuade a snapper to get a move on and it bit the plastic scrapper end off my snow brush with no effort at all, glad it wasn't my fingers.
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Good for you for moving them. People just don't watch the road for anything too small to cause tire damage. You can pick up a snapper safely by the base of the tail. Hold it out away from your body, with the bottom of the turtle toward you.
 
Nanci said:
Good for you for moving them. People just don't watch the road for anything too small to cause tire damage. You can pick up a snapper safely by the base of the tail. Hold it out away from your body, with the bottom of the turtle toward you.
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Last summer, I found a baby snapper in my dog's water dish. We relocated it to the stream down the hill which I guess was the body of water it really was heading for before Merlin's dish distracted it. Cute little bugger, though.
 
Yeah I heard that you can handle them but I am a little shy now...
I hope dog would notice before it got it?
Good idea here to carry some hand sanitizer as they share there pond with a bunch of geese so good great breeding ground seminole.
I really hate coming back the same and see the worst!
 
Well she/he ate a fuzzy like there was no tomorrow. I went to dangle it in the tank and POW!!! she hit hard wrapped it up and down it went.:dancer: Then she/he then drank from the water dish and went right back in its hide...

So as far as I am concerned she/he is staying. Now to get her to the snake vet. and get it sexed and a once over.
 
That's a great find... really nice coloring. If I ever go to the Barrens down here in Jersey I'm going to try and look for some corns, it wold be cool to find one since they're really rare and endangered.
 
if you get caught even moving a corn snake off a bussy road, so it wont get hit by a car you will be fined if a ranger catches you.
 
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