Snakesitter
10-29-12, 02:36 PM
For these next short entries, we are profiling our four holdbacks from the 2011 Hills-Alex litter. Born on September 14, 2011, all four just hit their one-year birthdays, and are shaping up nicely. We will cover two babies a week over the next two weeks. This is part one of the four-part series.
Kilimanjaro is the little punk of the litter. He was feistiest of the group on the day they were born, nipping me not once but several times as I transferred him to the scale and his drawer. He also proved to be the athlete of the group, once managing to bolt his drawer to the floor in a quick (and quickly terminated) escape attempt.
Here is Kilimanjaro as of his birth in September 2011:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6874150537_892a68229c_b.jpg
Here he is at six months in March 2012:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/7077895623_0eee12ec39_b.jpg
And here he is at one year in September 2012:
Outside
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/8056114469_1ed4f4bfa4_b.jpg
Inside
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/8056116284_291619972e_b.jpg
He now weighs 218 grams, placing him a few months ahead of the usual growth curve for a Brazilian of his age. Going forward, we hope he will develop into a solid red specimen.
Thank you for reading,
Kilimanjaro is the little punk of the litter. He was feistiest of the group on the day they were born, nipping me not once but several times as I transferred him to the scale and his drawer. He also proved to be the athlete of the group, once managing to bolt his drawer to the floor in a quick (and quickly terminated) escape attempt.
Here is Kilimanjaro as of his birth in September 2011:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6874150537_892a68229c_b.jpg
Here he is at six months in March 2012:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/7077895623_0eee12ec39_b.jpg
And here he is at one year in September 2012:
Outside
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/8056114469_1ed4f4bfa4_b.jpg
Inside
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/8056116284_291619972e_b.jpg
He now weighs 218 grams, placing him a few months ahead of the usual growth curve for a Brazilian of his age. Going forward, we hope he will develop into a solid red specimen.
Thank you for reading,