Feeding snakes

[pecunium]

For those who are squeamish, I don't commend going here, because I have five pictures of a juvenile hognose (Heterodon nasicus) eating the first half of his weekly supper.

McDuff (that being the snakes name) is about 9" long, 8 months old, and almost twice the size of his clutchmates.

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[mcduff.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going to go, not because I'm squeamish but because I'm not really interested in snakes.

But when I saw the name, I had to at least pay a visit. Is that a baby mouse?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is a pinkie. It happens that is a pinkie less than an hour old.

I was interrupted in the midst writing this to take pictures of that snake's parents in the act of breeding some siblings.

He got the name because I had to cut him out of the egg (it was huge, about the size of three of a normal egg, and he was the size of 1 1/2 normal neo-nates.

TK

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Speaking of snakes, I have a couple of pictures of our trip to IKEA yesterday that might amuse you.