Rosy Boa: Not so Smart

[Roy Munson]

This guy has shown signs of extreme stupidity before, but today was his best performance. It was his first post-bru meal, and I gave him two hoppers. I left him alone for some time, and then went back to check on him. The hoppers were gone, but he was moving strangely, pressing his open-mouthed-face against the bottom of the feeding tub. I thought maybe his jaws weren't re-aligning, and he kept doing it. I started getting worried, but then it became apparent that he was trying to bite and eat the spot on the paper towels where the mice had been. Guess he'll go bare-tub from here on out at meal time.

And to think, the fact that he didn't bite me when I took him out (which he had done for almost all of his 2005 feedings), had me worried about his post-bru feeding response.

 

[BeckyG]

That is too funny!

 

[Snakexperience]

Fantastic animals!!! I've just sold my group of 6 animals unfortunately..
I've made the choice to go on keeping and breeding Corns and it was the biggest sacrifice made ever for me..
They're just so cool!!

Arjan

 

[Slippery Ernie]

I believe it. My first experience with a rosy boa consisted of my hand getting chomped and then fending off the coils with my other hand.

 

[jzal8]

"LAY OFF ME, I'm STAAARRRVING"

 

[lefty_mussolini]

Aww rosy boas. The bimbos of the snake world. Very pretty, but about as smart as a box of rocks. :grin01:

 

[recycling goddess]

i can see it now LOL

 

[dionythicus]

Aww rosy boas. The bimbos of the snake world. Very pretty, but about as smart as a box of rocks. :grin01:

Just change those blonde jokes to read "rosy boa"....

 

[lefty_mussolini]

Just change those blonde jokes to read "rosy boa"....

I was going to say that they were the blondes of the snake world, but I didn't want to upset anyone.

 

[dionythicus]

It's ok. When I started dyeing my hair red (about 15 yrs ago), someone in my office at the time anonymously sent an interoffice envelope with blonde jokes remade into redhead jokes. I'm pretty sure I know who it was, but it was pretty funny.

And as for rosies not being the brightest bulb in the fixture, I have one that thinks like a little kid. If he doesn't want to eat his f/t mouse, he hides it under his box so I think he ate it. A day later I can smell it and have to go digging for buried treasure. Yea. He just watches me from the other side of his tub with a little smirk....

 

[Roy Munson]

And as for rosies not being the brightest bulb in the fixture, I have one that thinks like a little kid. If he doesn't want to eat his f/t mouse, he hides it under his box so I think he ate it. A day later I can smell it and have to go digging for buried treasure. Yea. He just watches me from the other side of his tub with a little smirk....

I've never had to worry about this with mine. He's a garbage disposal. In sixteen (or so) years, he's never refused a prey item of any kind. He's eaten mice, rats, hamsters, gerbils, spiny mice. Last year he developed a taste for human, and this year, paper towels. :shrugs:

 

[dionythicus]

This one was a freebie from someone downsizing their collection. I'm really amazed with his eating habits that he was overweight when I got him.

 

[jazzgeek]

Just change those blonde jokes to read "rosy boa"....

It works with only limited success.

"What do you call a brunette between two rosy boas?"

"Why did the rosy boa write 'TGIF' on her shoes?"

"How many rosa boas does it take...."

Y'see? Not the best setup lines.

regards,
jazz

 

[Tom Tuttle]

South Park Rosy?

I WANT MY CHEESIE POOFS!!! Is his name Eric? :cheers:

 

[Roy Munson]

I WANT MY CHEESIE POOFS!!! Is his name Eric? :cheers:

:roflmao:

More like: "BEEFCAKE!"

 

[MegF.]

Your rosy is still smarter than my Green tree python kid. He completely misses the mouse half the time when he strikes at it, and the other half of the time he spends trying to find it after he's buried it in his coils. What a moron!

 

[Shep151]

That is too funny!

Yep, until they succeed. I lost a very nice boa this year that way.