Winnie Ate A Fish!

[anji1971]

...... Then being the lady she is, she quietly 'burped' and then dabbed at her mouth on a rock.

Well now...............a burping snake.......... that's probably a whole lot more fun to watch than a boring ol' fish chase! Too funny!

[el lobo]

Nice. haha...good work Winnie!

[Garter_Gertie]

Anji, come on. You gotta be kidding me. Don't your snakes "burp"? You know, where they 'yawn' and re-align their jaws? I'm sure they do. Just never had it described as I've described.

[anji1971]

Anji, come on. You gotta be kidding me. Don't your snakes "burp"? You know, where they 'yawn' and re-align their jaws? I'm sure they do. Just never had it described as I've described.

Point taken. Guess I need more of an imagination sometimes. I've just been calling it "yawning and realigning their jaws"!

[Garter_Gertie]

I'd read on here last nite about 'drumsticks.' So today I asked Dave if I could have two of the legs from Ripley's baby bunny.

And... WINNIE SNARFED DOWN HERE FIRST EVER, WITHOUT BATTING AN EYE, F/T DRUMSTICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Garter_Gertie]

I'd read on here last nite about 'drumsticks.' So today I asked Dave if I could have two of the legs from Ripley's baby bunny.

And... WINNIE SNARFED DOWN HERE FIRST EVER, WITHOUT BATTING AN EYE, F/T DRUMSTICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bump.

Didn't want to start a whole new thread for this but I'm SO EXCITED!!! I can now kiss the vitamins I bought goodbye! Winnie can eat F/T pinkies/mousies this coming winter!

[Garter_Gertie]

See?! I'm using so much of what I've learned! We fed Winnie meal worms last year and even though I learned here they won't eat them, I do belive she did as we got no worms. I don't think garters are strictly carniverous as I read here because garters are somewhat oppertunistic and will eat bugs smaller than themselves.

Anyway, I didn't want to have to go the way of meal worms this winter should Winnie deign to eat. And I wouldn't be able to get worms or fish with the river frozen solid.

After reading about poor Lori last nite and her king snake, I decided to try the 'drumsticks' today on Winnie AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!

I'm so EXCITED I'm learning and ITTIZ WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Garter_Gertie]

Bump. I'm sorry, but I know of no other way to do this.

[Snake lover 3-25]

okay.... what do you mean by drumsticks???? she ate a chicken leg???LOL

[Garter_Gertie]

No, Shanley! LOL! Ittiz a term I learned here last nite reading all about Lori and her trials and tribulations with her king snake.

A drumstick is, in this case, a whole leg. Uhhhmmm... In chicken parlance it would be called a "chicken quarter." The thigh and drumstick.

I asked Dave to cut me off two - I think they were the backs. Winnie originally shied away from them. But when I did the 'wiggle dance' a good distance away from her, she struck (a million miles away from the drumstick; poor thing) and then kept going for it. So I moved my hand closer to her, I was holding her in my left hand. And dang if that sweet baby didn't nail it!

She then sat there for a bit (I think the kids around her bothered her) like if thinking, "What is this stuff? Is it good? Do I want to eat it?" And she finally gulped it down.

On the second drumstick, Missy Winnie needed no help/encouragement whatsoever! Winnie likes bunny!