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Aggie the Texas Ratsnake

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Team Laura
I was hoping to get a leucistic Texas Rat next season, but luck had it that I found a gorgeous girl while I was out running by the A&M golf course... Hence the name. She tagged me a few times, and I didn't think she was poisonous, but it was really dark. All I felt were little slivers of glass, nothing major, until she'd start chewing. I sexed her while I was heading back to the car, and I'm pretty sure it's a girl, because my Santi is definitely a boy. But enough blabbering, here she is! Hope the pictures aren't too blurry.

She stayed on my hand like this for at least an hour while I was taking pictures, and getting a temp habitat set up for her.
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She has a paw print on her head! And one of her saddles has a light bar running through it.
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Her and two of the five bites she inflicted. It's just a flesh wound, right?
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awesome find. leucy's should still be on you list. lol. was she still jumpy once you had her?
 
tstephe3 said:
awesome find. leucy's should still be on you list. lol. was she still jumpy once you had her?
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Well, since she's wild caught, she was really, really upset that I was holding her when I caught her. There was no musking or triangle head, just a few bites, and one good hold and chew. Then after about twenty minutes (walking back to the car, driving to the apartment), she settled onto my hand like in the pictures. In the picture where she's facing the camera nose on, her jaw is kind of off on her bottom left side, because I tried to get her off without hurting her. That's all fine now. She wasn't nearly as jumpy the next day. She was in one of those Glad turkey meat containers for the night, with some aspen, a Vitamin Water cap of water and a toilet tube, and a rubber band around it to prevent her from pushing the lid off, but she wanted nothing to do with the tube. She sat and watched me the next morning, seemingly really interested in what I was doing, but when I got home that afternoon, she'd kind of burrowed under the tube. I got her a new cage, hide, and water dish, and put her in there, and she was slightly jumpy for the first few minutes I held her, then she contented herself to wrapping around my fingers like she did in the pictures and staying that way. I don't know if that's normal behavior, but I think it's kind of cute. I know I'm supposed to leave her alone for a week, but my mom and sister had to evacuate for Ike, so they're actually in a hotel down the street from me, and I showed her to them. My mom wasn't too keen on the idea of me keeping her when I told her I caught a snake when I called her after I got back to my car that night, but after I sent her pictures, she thinks she's gorgeous... I took her out for about two minutes to let them see her, and she didn't try to bite me or escape, and no triangle head. She just kind of slithered and coiled around my fingers. Now I've got a pair of snakes, and since the family except Dad have evacuated, they've brought Ziggy with them, and left him here with me because he misses me. So, I guess I'll know more on Tuesday when I try to feed her. But I think I'm going to start a progression thread for her... So I'll definitely keep you posted on her temperament!
 
I know this is a lot of pictures, and I apologize... A little bit. Anyway, Aggie went into blue on the 16th, and she shed today, so I took some pictures. As far as I can tell, she's gotten more grey on her back, and she's getting some orange on the patches on the first quarter of her body...

Here she is in her pretty new clothes!!! She's got steel blue bands between her saddles, and her head has gotten more of that steel blue color. It's kind of hard to see in the pictures, but it's definitely there.

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Here are a few new pictures of Aggie I took today. Not too many good ones, she was wiggly today.

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Starting to get some frosting going on.
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I need to get some pictures of her head...
 
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