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[kibakiba]

Awww, but Richard.... I really love cute and cuddly snakes. Your a man, you like violent things. I'm a woman I like cute and cuddly things... Like ponies, kittens and baby garter snakes...

[ConcinusMan]

Hey now! I hate violence. I just like it when snakes with attitudes continue to be themselves in captivity, in spite of my "I love you and will care for you always" response to them. I just want them to be comfortable, well cared for and content. If they are being themselves, and that includes a bit of nipping, striking, and downright nastiness, than I wouldn't want them to go changing for little ol' me.

I always have the choice to release them, or otherwise make them absent from my life. That's a choice everyone has when keeping snakes. Hopefully everyone's choices have the snake's best interest in mind no matter how "mean" that snake is.

Don't be so quick to judge. I am a sensitive and caring man who hates violence and has a hard time coming to terms with war and hate. I don't relate to it one bit. I love my snakes because they are so elegant, prefect, and beautiful, even if they are mean!

[kibakiba]

Well, striking nipping and otherwise biting is violent :P But I so understand liking them having attitudes it was cute when runt thought that he could get the best of me when he bit my finger. He held on for quite a while and I just sat there smiling cause it was funny how much he was trying to swallow. The tip of my finger is about 4 times the size of his little head but he still tried to swallow it all. After a while he let go of it and ran for his hide, probably humiliated that he couldn't be big and tough
I don't much like real violence. My boyfriend and I are gamers so I do the video game violence stuff but I cant even handle real life violence. I've had enough of it in my lifetime to know to avoid it completely. I can tell you're sensitive and caring by the way you talk about your snakes and how attached you are to the little ones.
Sssspeaking of snakes, Mama and Snakey are sleeping right next to each other and her head is rested on his. It's so cute. They're the cutest couple ever.

[ConcinusMan]

It's not violence per se... they just don't know any better.. afterall.. they are only huma.. oh wait. nevermind.

[kibakiba]

Hah . I know they don't know any better... Snakey's not a little meanie to me usually, but he's bitten me 3 times. 2 broke the skin and you know what happened . Like I said, all part of the job.

[ConcinusMan]

That's odd. I've never had a garter that continued to be mean. They've always settled down for me.

[kibakiba]

Yes, that's how it's gone for me. Mama was... Uhh.. a... Your ringtone
Hahaha. Now she's the sweetest little garter I've ever had. She's getting pretty fat too. I haven't fed her in a week and she's gaining weight anyway. Shes my little chubby, chubby chubs!! Haha, I think if she could read she'd go for my neck. Runt still strikes at me sometimes but I know he's really young and to him I'm a serious threat, but I do provide food, shelter, water and warmth

[ConcinusMan]

Yes, that's how it's gone for me. Mama was... Uhh.. a... Your ringtone
Hahaha. Now she's the sweetest little garter I've ever had. She's getting pretty fat too. I haven't fed her in a week and she's gaining weight anyway. Shes my little chubby, chubby chubs!!

Hmmmm.... prego perhaps?

[kibakiba]

Well she did have that incident with Snakey when she spun him around and all (if you don't know what I'm talking about I posted it on the Found of youtube thread, first video I posted there) I wouldn't be surprised if she was. I was disappointed a while ago since they did mate in late June and she wasn't pregnant. The only problem is that she would probably give birth late and I'll have to surrender all my worms to the little ones for a few months

[ConcinusMan]

Oh, I see. I would say it's very likely she's gravid if you witnessed a mating. Just because the mating happens doesn't mean she'll be gravid right away. In fact, she could save the sperm and ovulate a year or more later. Thats one of the reasons you can't really predict when northwesterns will have their babies, based on the date of copulation. Dang girls can hold off and ovulate later when they feel like it. It is thought that the sperm can remain viable for several years.