Lila's On The Munson Plan!

[Nanci]

Here is Lila, eating her first meal. She's big enough to eat a peach fuzzy, but since I have 50 pinks and no one small enough- she gets two! (Addy gets five- ack!!) I thought I'd try her in a container, in broad daylight, FT pinks, slit. She was on the first one instantly. Took her a minute, then she found the second one. When I went to get her out- this is the best part!- she tail rattled at me! I was _so_ scared- it sounded like a June bug buzzing the window...Tough girl!

Nanci

 

[diamondlil]

She's such a pretty girl!

 

[Tula_Montage]

Shes lovely! We shall have to track Lila and Hal's progress over the next few months. And see what the Munson plan can do for them!

 

[Cegninedorf]

Lilia almost looks like she's smiling... You know, like kids who smile for the camera with chocolate cake smeared all over their faces -- having a good time while enjoying their food, and smiling through it all...

I'm trying out "the plan" as well...with looking at the weight of the snake, I decided to bump up 2 of my snakes to a larger feeder and I'm *trying* to feed my youngest -- a Sept 06, Bellerouge, 45 g -- a little more frequently, but she's not having it. :shrugs: She really does have a mind of her own...! Good luck with Lila!

 

[Nanci]

I'm so pleased that both new snakes ate without a problem!

Nanci

 

[lajes]

Wow a really stunning girl like her partially zig zag pattern!
i´m a bit jealous!

 

[Nanci]

Thank you! She's almost totally zig zagged. She's just a little sweetie pie, too- I don't know where that tail rattling came from! When I took her outside for pics a few days ago- she's like- "Do I look pretty like this? How about like this? Here, let me pose by this spider." She's so tiny, though- it's hard to find her in her viv, but luckily she has a favorite hide.

Nanci

 

[Jimmus]

When I went to get her out- this is the best part!- she tail rattled at me! I was _so_ scared- it sounded like a June bug buzzing the window...Tough girl!

LOL thats awesome

:cheers:

 

[Nanci]

I thought I was going to die laughing- secretly, so I wouldn't hurt her feelings. Now when Big Jake tail rattles, I pay attention!

Nanci

 

[snakemom1961]

Gotta love the tail rattling. My Bree rattled at me for the first time saturday when I fed her. That's only the second time I've witnessed that from any of my snakes. I secretly hope each will rattle at me at some point...lol

Congrats on having her eat so well. She's a pretty little girl for sure.

 

[Nanci]

It's pretty funny. Addy and Maizey (the two WCs) have never tail rattled, but all the others do for various reasons. Inez rattles constantly the whole time I'm holding her, unless she dozes off for a minute.

Nanci

 

[Jimmus]

I thought I was going to die laughing- secretly, so I wouldn't hurt her feelings.

lol your evil, you should take her seriously...shes a man eater :grin01:

 

[Nanci]

I got Miss Lila out for feeding last night and she was blue. Definitely not interested in eating while blue. Luckily I had a backup snake that was due to eat today- Addy- so the two fuzzies didn't go to waste.

Zee ate, too. I just switched him to a single larger prey last time, instead of two smaller ones. He bit his tongue at the vet getting tube wormed, Tuesday, so I was worried about him feeding ok last night, but he did.

Tonight it's big snake feeding night- Maizey and Jake.

Nanci

 

[Eremita]

I guess when they bite their tongue the whole world smells kind of like corn snake.

It's cute when Clyde rattles too, but I take it to mean that he's scared rather then threatening, so I feel kind of bad for the guy. Most of the time he doesn't, though. Say, do Hognoses rattle too?

-Sean

 

[Nanci]

As far as I can tell, they all rattle! I was reading about snake evolution (it's really, really cool) and they say that all snakes rattled, but rattlers developed an extra special rattle, maybe to make themselves even more noticeable to large hooved animals that they would encounter out on the prairies- thus allowing rattlesnakes to expand their range, while venomous snakes that didn't rattle (cottonmouth, copperhead) never moved out into the wide open spaces. The rattler couldn't defend itself from a bison with venom, so had to evolve a defense capable of scaring (or at least temporarily stopping) something thousands of times its size. The colubrids could live anywhere, because they were relatively slender and fast, unlike the heavy-bodied venomous snakes.

Nanci

 

[Cegninedorf]

How is Lila doing on "the plan"? Has she been gaining weight nicely? I've been trying to keep to it, too, for all of my snakes, but it's not easy with the youngest -- Belle, a late '06 now at 50 g -- because she's so picky...and so often in blue, it seems! She's usually an enthusiastic eater, but that whole blue-thing is such a kink in her weight-gain-plan... (I like how my others could be in blue and the house on fire and the world ending and they'd most likely *still* be ok with eating... )

I do worry about my Maizie, though, because I think that she's getting a little tubby, but she has good muscle tone & she's always on the move, so do you think that I should worry more about weight when she's done growing? She actually seems to have perked up quite a bit since starting with "the plan" and the warmer weather...

Are you just doing this with Lila or all of your snakes?

Thanks! :wavey: