Terri's new snake

[gregmonsta]

:D Well ... I ordered her a non-garter today (please forgive me lol) ... as of next week there should be a female everglades rat snake in da house :)

[Lori P]

Boo hiss!!! LOL, just kidding. Congrats, can't wait to see!! :-)

[adamanteus]

Everglades are excellent Snakes, Greg. My favourite Rat Snake.:D

[tikichick]

Cool! Can't wait to see pics :D

[gregmonsta]

:) the jorney doth begin :)

[TerriandClint]

Meet ... PENELOPE!!!!

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSC03285.JPG

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I love her!!!! She's an extremely early birthday present (birthdays not until August) from Greg, of course when the birthday approaches I will still be presenting him with my annual list of wants.

[gregmonsta]

Ahem .... that'll be right :rolleyes: ... just wait until you get mine :D muhahahahaha :p

[Stefan-A]

Looking good. :)

[Loren]

Sweet! Now I'm gonna have to go take a pic of my everglades rat too. Also a female.

[Lori P]

Penelope is just gorgeous!!!! Wow, I love her!! Lucky you, Terri-- she's a great present. :-) Keep us posted on how she does.

[anji1971]

Very pretty!! she makes a great fashion accessory, too!:D

[drache]

very nice, Terry
that's a beautiful snake
great gift
well done, Greg - can you tutor Jeff perhaps?

[tikichick]

Beautiful! She's bigger than I expected, how old is she? I love her face, she looks so sweet :)

[adamanteus]

Lovely looking snake, Terri.:)

[TerriandClint]

She is 1 year old this month :D oh she is so beautiful ... exactly what I wanted! I can't believe how calm she is ... I've only ever held the snakes which we have now and they're all squiggly (although Clint does seem to be calming slowly but surely) so for me it's amazing :D she hung around Greg's neck for ages last night while he was on the PC .... she didn't even move once. We kinda expected her to be a little stressed after her journey (she was sent up from England to Aberdeen then we collected her and brought her to Perth) but she didn't even flinch when we took her out of her bag in the shop and again at home she didn't seemed bothered by much! I think the cat is a little bit scared of her ... she won't get too close to the viv and acts very jumpy when she's sat infront of it ... very amusing!

[Loren]

Wow, She's huge for 1 year old.
Its really neat watching their colors come in as babies. Here is my fm everglades rat.
As a hatchling- 10-2007
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/everglades_rat_as_hatchling.jpg

After a few sheds, color coming in nicely- 2-2008
http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/everglades_ratsnake_after_a_few_sheds.jpg

[anji1971]

Loren, that's a beautiful snake, too!!
I'm really starting to take a liking to rat snakes..............could be the beginning of a whole 'nother wish list!!!:D

[Loren]

Yes, there are quite a few nice rats, I would like to get a yellow rat as well, but want to hand pick one that is truly a nice clean yellow,as many are kind of muddy or grayish.
Maybe a nice black rat too.
I got my everglades from east bay vivarium. They breed them, and have pics of their breeder adults on their website- very beautiful. Bought an albino striped pacific gophersnake and my little checkered garter from them that same day.
I need to start handling my little everglades every week so she calms down before she gets real big- she tries to bite- alot.

[drache]

that is a lovely snake
rats are very cool snakes

[Sid]

Great looking Everglade Rat snakes, Terri and Loren. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Pinky]

Wonderful looking snake!:)

[TerriandClint]

Very cute snake Loren :p