Marnie's Snakes

[EasternGirl]

I finally got my magazines! Pinjohn is such a good friend and sent me some issues of Practical Reptile Keeping from the UK so that I can be knowlegable in facts on reptiles beyond garter snakes! Thanks to our postal system mimicking the natural behavior of the tortoise, it took me a month to get them...but today they finally arrived! My son and I have been reading them today and they are very interesting...so fun to read! Thank you again, John! It was a really nice thing to do.

[EasternGirl]

Seeley is refusing to eat again. Oh how I wish Cee Cee's appetite would rub off on him. His neck looks so thin. He worries me. He's active enough. He just doesn't like to eat very much. All he likes to do is snuggle with Cee Cee. He has a one track mind.

[kibakiba]

It's likely that he's pulling what snakey does. Snakey wants hanky panky, and refuses to eat until then. He has to wait for Blade, though... Mama doesn't want anything to do with him anymore

[EasternGirl]

Cee Cee lets him sit on top of her, ride around on her, and they cuddle...but that's as far as it ever goes. I think she just wants to be friends...lol. She's a big tease! Or she's gravid already.

[kibakiba]

Imagine if they were humans and he was riding on top of her.. that would be a real sight to see! haha.

[EasternGirl]

It's just so cute because he is so much smaller than she is...so it looks like a baby riding around on his mama's back. She just goes about her business like she doesn't even know, or care, that he is there...and he just tries to hang on for dear life as she climbs up and down stuff in the enclosure. Sometimes it looks like he's riding a rollercoaster. It's really funny to watch!

[kibakiba]

Pumpkin was riding on Mama before... Cute haha. Rollercoaster snakies!!

[EasternGirl]

Someone else in this house really needs to learn how to work a video camera. I wish you guys could have seen the Cee Cee piggers eating last night. It was like something for America's Funniest Home Snake Videos. She was so crazed over her food...she was sitting perched on the edge of the sliding glass door on the front of her tank...with her head and neck extended out to get the food from me. She had food all over her mouth and she was gobbling it down and dropping it everywhere...and she kept falling off the ledge. She looked so fat the way she was sitting, and with food hanging from the sides of her mouth, and the way she kept falling and having to steady herself....she looked like a drunk, fat man on a food frenzy....it was hysterical. I kept laughing at her and telling her she was a pig snake. She didn't care...she was trying to eat the dish, my fingers...she probably would have lunged for the cat if he had walked by. I have got to get a video of her eating sometime.

[guidofatherof5]

Someone else in this house really needs to learn how to work a video camera. I wish you guys could have seen the Cee Cee piggers eating last night. It was like something for America's Funniest Home Snake Videos. She was so crazed over her food...she was sitting perched on the edge of the sliding glass door on the front of her tank...with her head and neck extended out to get the food from me. She had food all over her mouth and she was gobbling it down and dropping it everywhere...and she kept falling off the ledge. She looked so fat the way she was sitting, and with food hanging from the sides of her mouth, and the way she kept falling and having to steady herself....she looked like a drunk, fat man on a food frenzy....it was hysterical. I kept laughing at her and telling her she was a pig snake. She didn't care...she was trying to eat the dish, my fingers...she probably would have lunged for the cat if he had walked by. I have got to get a video of her eating sometime.

Video of that would be okay.

[EasternGirl]

Hermes was so funny tonight. It was time to feed him and I went to put his food under his hide like I usually do. I lifted up his hide and he came over and lifted half of his body up and started following my hand around and sniffing at my fingers...flicking his little tongue out and chasing my fingers around the tank! He was really hungry! It was so adorable because he is so small. I didn't even have time to put his hide over his dish...he dove into the dish and started gobbling up his food. You should have seen his big fat tummy when he was done! He's a happy little snake tonight. Right now, he's lounging in his hanging plant with his big old fish belly...

Seeley once again did not eat much at all. I made him a mixture of worms, tilapia, and reptamin...but he only ate a few bites. I don't know if the poor thing is eating enough at this point to sustain himself. I think all he wants is worms. I keep trying to get him to eat other things. I am going to just offer him a dish of worms tomorrow. I guess it's better to just let him have the worms if he'll eat them...than to give him other food and have him continue to refuse it.

Of course...I had to feed piggy Cee Cee a little bit since Hermes and Seeley were being fed. She really didn't need to eat tonight...the fat little thing...but she smelled the food and went crazy, so I couldn't refuse her a bit of food. I fed her a couple bites of worm and a few strips of tilapia. She went crazy for the food of course! My big fat piggers!