I'm losing my mind here.
I know it might not be the best to compare a yellow rat and black rat. But they should be similar enough species to expect them to have similar growth rates, right?
So, here are two north american rat snakes. a yellow rat from august or september of 2012 and a white sided black rat (George) hatched july 2012.
George has been fed every wednesday, and has gradually moved up in prey sized, current size : rat pup
His current weight : 261 grams.
We just got a yellow rat, one or two months older than george that we are told is "normal" size for her age and that we had no reason to expect anything different. She is 49grams.
I cannot fathom how it can be said that the size is normal for the age. What do you guys think? Do you think she's "normal" size and we should be happy about the purchase, or do you think she's very small for her age and that we should have been told that?
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