A Feeding Video!

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

I made a feeding video... shot all the clips on saturday and it took me until just now to cut them up, stick them all together and add some music!!! All the rodents being used are f/t and the garters are obviously having worm pieces. I hover over all my snakes as they eat and remove substrate with my tongs to rpevent them eating it. Most of my snakes simply do not like to eat outside their home right away, and since I have so many... I do not have time to wait for them to do so!

I shake the mice once a BP strikes it to make the snake think it is indeed killing something. I have noticed that sometimes BP's willr eelase and ignore a f/t after they have struck it... the shaking seems to do the trick.

here is the link... let me know whatcha think!

ClipShack - Snake Feeding Day

[jitami]

Nice Shannon! I could watch it over and over! I love the music choice, too! Very nice indeed!

[guidofatherof5]

Awesome! Oh, and did I mention it was awesome.

[prattypus]

Wow. Was that a similis that kept striking so hard? Very impressive demonstration...

[Jack Neary]

Wow. Was that a similis that kept striking so hard? Very impressive demonstration...

Shannon,
I have the sister from the same litter of your Similis that I bought in August from Scott Felzer. She has the very same mean disposition as your Similis!
Regards,
Jack

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Shannon,
I have the sister from the same litter of your Similis that I bought in August from Scott Felzer. She has the very same mean disposition as your Similis!
Regards,
Jack

haha yes... I have heard it is a similis thing! Scott told me when I was on the phone with him last week that his similis seem to be more wiry than any others. I had a similis baby before that did not make it and she was the same way! Both of mine are like that and the only way I can get them to eat is to hold them in my hand or to get them to be angry enough to STRIKE their food! I swear the are only eating their food because they are spitefula dn think they are hurting me by doing so.

And no, I do not own a texas rat, those ratsnakes you saw are the son and daughter of Tightie Whitie my white sided black rat snake, and a cornsnake... they were born last year... see my black rat was supposed to be a male and I ened up housing my two "male" snakes together for a bit while one of their cages was broken... and sure enough one day I lifted up tightie's water bowl to find HIM laying eggs!

[reptile3]

And no, I do not own a texas rat, those ratsnakes you saw are the son and daughter of Tightie Whitie my white sided black rat snake, and a cornsnake... they were born last year... see my black rat was supposed to be a male and I ened up housing my two "male" snakes together for a bit while one of their cages was broken... and sure enough one day I lifted up tightie's water bowl to find HIM laying eggs!

Oops!! I guess he wasn't a male after all!!!

[anji1971]

Yesterday the video wouldn't play for me for some reason, and I was all disappointed.
But it worked this time. YAY!
Very, very cool. I LOVE that crabby little similis!

[Hornets23]

Completely awesome shannon!

[mtolypetsupply]

Good job, Shannon! I especially like what appears to be an "UNhappy rat dance"! That and the one who strikes AND takes the rat back in his/her hide.