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Look mom, I killed it twice!

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Bethanne

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Ok, this was a first for me and I just had to share my first constriction! I didn't let go of his little mousie very fast and I guess he thought it was fighting back so he killed it again. As a newbie...Ive never seen a snake do it so it was a moment. The kids and I all thought it was so much fun to watch I imagine his dinner will be "fighting back" more often.

By the way, it seems to me that Argus is a very bright "normal". Are all normal's as bright as him or is it because one of his parents was okeetee? The other parent was labled "florida corn" whatever that means...I suspect that is code for "normal". :)

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I have a trio of normals that are very bright and look okeeteeish, they have hets for sunkissed, charcoal and bloodred...but I think it is the sunkissed gene that makes them look so good.

But your boy is just bright and beautiful. Truly a gorgeous "normal". Congrats for having such a beauty!
 
there are a couple different "localities" of "normals" in corns. Some will say an okeetee is a morph, and some will say that an Okeetee is a locality of normal.

Normals can be quite bright. Here is where I am not completely sure (so any one else jump on in!!) the real difference is that an Okeetee has thicker black borders than a normal.
 
Okeetee can never really be a morph.
It is a locality, or it can be an appearance.
Those that are not locatiltes are often referred to as "lookatees".
 
Normals have a very wide range of phenotypes. Yous happens to be on the more colorful side, probably from the Okeetee/lookatee heritage.

As for the constriction of dinner, many corn snakes will do that with F/T meals. I've found that younger hatchlings won't do that, they just eat their dinner straight up, even if it's a live pinky, but once they get to about fuzzy-sized meals, you'll start to see this behavior, It's most likely their instinct kicking in. They seem to know that small live prey can't really hurt them, but once it gets larger, they have to make sure it's dead before eating to avoid injury.
 
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