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Old 07-20-12, 09:14 AM   #34
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Re: Skyler update

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Originally Posted by Wildside View Post
Do you have any idea what the food strike was all about? Pretending to be a ball python maybe?
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She's eaten maybe 4 times in the past year, and very little each time. There are a few factors at play here - she was overfed before I was asked to take her, she'd gone off food just a few weeks before coming to me *and* she had just turned 3 1/2 years old at that point.

I think she's just taken all the extra mass she had acquired, hit sexual maturity and turned all that into length rather than bulk so she could really be all she could be in preparation for breeding. It's the only thing that explains how little her girth has changed with such little food intake.
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