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- From: mpease@dream.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Michael David Pease)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.herp
- Subject: Re: Gratuitous Kills
- Message-ID: <mpease.06mp@dream.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 04:39:02 EST
- Organization: The Dreaming City BBS * (519)896-0863
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- On Thu 24-Dec-1992 4:34a, R. Dijkhuis Wrote:
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- RD> A friend of mine who has a rat snake has seen his snake do this. His
- RD> explanation, as I recall, was that the snake wasn't actually hungry, but
- RD> because the mouse was moving around the terrarium and got in the snake's
- RD> way, the snake killed it out of pure annoyance.
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- I can sympathise with what you have said... I have a Ball Python,
- who has on Numerous occaisions, simply killed his prey and left it alone
- afterwards...The reasons for this behavior elude me....
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- RD> This snake also had this thing about white mice, BTW. He just didn't want
- RD> to
- RD> eat them. Has anybody got any idea why?
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- My Ball Python [Monty], also has a preference for White Mice, he will
- NOT eat any other colour ..... And belive me, we have experimented....
- It does not matter how hungry he is, the mice HAVE to be WHITE, Strange
- HUH?
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