Jesse's garter snakes

[ConcinusMan]

You gotta smart one there. The inquisitiveness. The investigating. Intelligent snake.

[RedSidedSPR]

And he's male.

[ConcinusMan]

I'm sure. There were 13 born if I remember right and only two or three were females.

[RedSidedSPR]

I meant he's male, yet intelligent.

Nevermind.

[ConcinusMan]

I know what you meant

[RedSidedSPR]

oh. wait. I didn't see that. Whoops... forget I said anything.

I'll tell ya who's NOT smart. My flame.

Today I sprayed the cage, and curious to what they'd do, spayed the water bowl. The flame came tearing out of the hide, dove in the bowl, and swam around I'm circles, mouth open. Obviously thinking there were guppies or something... I picked him up so he wouldn't attack the others and he bit me.

Psycho.

[ConcinusMan]

My radixes do that. They come flying out biting at the mist. It's hilarious.

[RedSidedSPR]

Yes. It is.

[kibakiba]

So cute!

[RedSidedSPR]

Red just scared the crap of me. And I feel terrible.

I was taking pictures of him, holding him in front of the window as usual, but he wasn't holding still... as with all my snakes, if I set them on window sash they sit still, enjoying the sun, and it makes a nice picture. (see my contest entry)

I rarely do it with my babies, cause i just dont, but I set Red there...

Anyway he ended up going down this little hole, the one that leads down the... it's the thingy... ya know, the...

This thing:


I got really stressed cause obviously that was bad. I didn't want to open the window, cause I was sure it would hurt him. I waited, and tapped on the side some and I could hear him moving but couldn't get him to come up.

The little pig had already eaten today, but I knew with his love for food that was the only thing I could think of. Stuck a chunk of worm (on the hemostats) down the hole, and slowly pulled it back out...

I just did what I thought would get Reds attention, and it worked.

I went over to put the worm, and looked up... there was his head sticking out of the hole. Showed him the food, and he launched himself out of the hole.

I gave it to him, of course. He's quite fat.


I'm kicking myself that i let that happen, and didn't even see it until he was halfway down. (couldn't do a thing) But he seems OK as far as i can tell.