I Love My Little Hateling!

[Snakeknot]

So I've had Saphira, my baby Florida blue garter, for about a week and she is a SPITFIRE! Very tiny and VERY SPIRITED! I think I've got the Jack Russell of snakes here! I pop the top of her tub to check on her and she runs to the nearest corner, coils up to face me, flattens her body and head out like a little green copperhead and tries to do the scale scraping horseshoe thing. ( No tail rattling. ) She's quick to strike and acts so fierce! But if you pick her up, her fearsome attitude vanishes. Its all bluff and bluster.

She's a great eater and cleans up whatever I put in her bottle cap dish. Yesterday I was feeding the other big snakes and when I went to get a frozen rat-pup for my big corn, a leg broke off of the next rat. So I thawed it with the other mice and offered the leg to Saphira. It didn't last 5 minutes! I came back and it was gone and Saphira had a big bulge in her belly. Apparently she likes drumsticks!

She's a fun one! I LOVE her!


Devon