Rats!!

[GlitchWizard]

Is there any other way?

Yours made me sad....http://www.rm116.com/adcenter/images/rat.jpg

I am sorry. Each time I feed my snakes I try to justify the death of the rat by saying it's going to live on in the snake. Like organ donation... just ALL the organs go to the same snake.

 

[Hopeful One]

http://www.80stoysale.com/hairlesspics.html
I love rats. They are sweet and adorable, give kisses and the ones with hair eventually end up feeding my snakes.

You just made me gag.

 

[Hopeful One]

EOUGH!!!!!!!!! And you made me throw up a little in my mouth!!!!!!!!

 

[Buzz Mills]

wow--an island of rats off the Alaska coast---imagine if you were Shipwrecked there--After you die of exposure from the cold, the rats will then eat your eyeballs--ewwwwwwww

They don't wait for you to die..............heh, heh.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I actually had a similar thought - Florida Everglades has a huge problem with people dropping off their huge snakes when the snakes get too large for them to handle. They're wreaking havoc on the environment there due to eating all the little critters. Seems like you could get someone to capture the big snakes (who don't eat eggs, by the way) and they could eat all the rats.

We would have to bring all of the rats to Florida because snakes, especially those really big ones, don't like the cold on an Alaskan Island, Rat Island to be specific.

Just give us the word on when you want the shipments to start.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Heh, or why don't we just drop off 100 snakes and see which species comes out on top?

I'm with Buzz on the Cane Toad thing. I remember watch a documentary where it showed they are highly problematic due to thier venom and birthrate.

Geez, I almost forgot about the venomous fire ants in Australia; I saw that in another documentary. Dingo?? Shazza??


"Uncontrolled, the ant could spread up to 600,000 square kilometres over the next 30 years and that would then put it in the backyards of Sydney and Melbourne, as well as into our major agricultural centres," Mr. Palaszczuk says.

And the projected cost to rural industry of unchecked fire ants is enormous.

"The Australian Bureau of Agriculture Resources Economics has estimated these losses could be more than $6.7 billion over the next 30 years,” Palaszczuk says.

“In terms of agriculture, the fire ant has the ability to inflict damage to livestock and crops, if it is left unchecked. It could force a change, not only what we grow, but how we grow it."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/features/stories/s382049.htm

 

[Peter Hamilton]

Well, the article also says that authorites have good reason to feel that they will destroy all the rats because its been done successfully before--An island off the New Zealand coast, an island off the Canadian coast and an island off the California coast, all were infested with rats, and they were all totally destroyed, so I think these rats' days are numbered up there in Alaska

 

[GlitchWizard]

You just made me gag.

I suppose snakes don't have a gag reflex. Who'd have even thought? :blushing:

And Buzz - if you deep freeze them and ship them to me, I'll take them. Would save me about $25 a month in snake food.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I suppose snakes don't have a gag reflex. Who'd have even thought? :blushing:

And Buzz - if you deep freeze them and ship them to me, I'll take them. Would save me about $25 a month in snake food.

How big is your snake, or snakes, GW?? How long will it be before you have to release it/them into the Everglades like all those other Floridians have been doing??

 

[GlitchWizard]

How big is your snake, or snakes, GW?? How long will it be before you have to release it/them into the Everglades like all those other Floridians have been doing??

I'm crazy as a bedbug, but not stupid enough to own a snake that gets larger than ten feet. My largest snakes right now are seven feet long each. If you added up all the snakes in my house, I probably have a total of 23 feet of snake - but individually they aren't a threat.

I have an entire bedroom for the red tails. Cuddles and Pandora.

Cuddles - because anything that can wrap around you several times should be named Cuddles, and Pandora is named because she's able to give LIVE birth to something like sixty boa constrictors. Anything that can have sixty live snakes coming out of it's box OUGHT to be named Pandora.

I love them. They don't love me, but they love my heated waterbed.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I'm crazy as a bedbug, but not stupid enough to own a snake that gets larger than ten feet. My largest snakes right now are seven feet long each. If you added up all the snakes in my house, I probably have a total of 23 feet of snake - but individually they aren't a threat.

I have an entire bedroom for the red tails. Cuddles and Pandora.

Cuddles - because anything that can wrap around you several times should be named Cuddles, and Pandora is named because she's able to give LIVE birth to something like sixty boa constrictors. Anything that can have sixty live snakes coming out of it's box OUGHT to be named Pandora.

I love them. They don't love me, but they love my heated waterbed.

GW, I'm guessing that you probably don't have very many sleepovers. I would buy them their own waterbed, in a room, in their own house.

 

[GlitchWizard]

GW, I'm guessing that you probably don't have very many sleepovers. I would buy them their own waterbed, in a room, in their own house.

I'm single and over 21 - so yeah, sometimes I have sleepovers.
They do have their own room, and their own heater, but not their own waterbed.

It IS effective in that my Mother no longer drops over unannounced.

 

[Buzz Mills]

I'm single and over 21 - so yeah, sometimes I have sleepovers.
They do have their own room, and their own heater, but not their own waterbed.

It IS effective in that my Mother no longer drops over unannounced.

Hmmm, I would put a sign on the door; WARNING: LARGE DANGEROUS SNAKES LOOSE IN HOUSE. That should keep a lot of people away.

 

[GlitchWizard]

Hmmm, I would put a sign on the door; WARNING: LARGE DANGEROUS SNAKES LOOSE IN HOUSE. That should keep a lot of people away.

I'm thinking the ones that make it past the pitt bulls aren't going to worry about a snake much. ;-)

 

[Amraann]

I'm thinking the ones that make it past the pitt bulls aren't going to worry about a snake much. ;-)

This entire line of conversation totally made me laugh!!!!!

Buzz those lovely pythons in the everglades are now being found in Key Largo...

I am ok, they have a few more islands to breed on before they get to me!!

The pythons really are not so scary its the cobra's that freak me out

 

[GlitchWizard]

This entire line of conversation totally made me laugh!!!!!

Buzz those lovely pythons in the everglades are now being found in Key Largo...

I am ok, they have a few more islands to breed on before they get to me!!

The pythons really are not so scary its the cobra's that freak me out

My eyes jumped to the second half of your post and I had to read it again. It said "The pythons really are not so scary, it's (what) the cobra's do to the disabled."

I was like "WHAT DID I MISS?" I was thinking some cobras were into some heinous stuff!

When my daughter and I go hiking, we take a dog with us. The dog loves to lead. What he's doing is clearing the snakes for us. He just hasn't been told. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Buzz Mills]

This entire line of conversation totally made me laugh!!!!!

Buzz those lovely pythons in the everglades are now being found in Key Largo...

I am ok, they have a few more islands to breed on before they get to me!!

The pythons really are not so scary its the cobra's that freak me out

Cobras will chase you; there are only a few snakes that will do that; one highly poisonous one lives in Australia, and is very agressive (and big - 14 ft.).