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[Swany]

How big is your burm Rogue ?

[Rogue628]

Originally Posted by Swany

How big is your burm Rogue ?

My big girl, Ms Grumpy, She-Who-Will-(usually)-Eat-Anything-Anytime-Anywhere is about 8 months old now and close to 5ft. She's on medium rats. Her clutch mate, She-Who-Will-NOT-Take-A-Rat, my problem feeder, is a little shorter and thinner, but is now slowly starting to grow at a decent rate. She refuses rats and I've tried every suggestion in the book and then some. The only way I've ever been able to get her to eat a rat is to piggy back it behind the largest mice I can find or a chick...and she loves her some chicks! My friend just brought me a few rabbit pinks to try her on. If I can get her to take rabbits, my eating issues with her should be solved. Let's keep our fingers crossed as I'm going to offer her one later tonight (I've been feeding her about every 5 days instead of 7 in attempt to get her to the size she should be since she started eating better).

[Swany]

Ah so she's still just a youngster then. As you know I'm new to this, but I really cant see me ever wanting to keep a BIG snake :-)

[Rogue628]

Originally Posted by Swany

Ah so she's still just a youngster then. As you know I'm new to this, but I really cant see me ever wanting to keep a BIG snake :-)

My first burm was already 5ft (and now I realize he was power fed) when I adopted him. Even at that size he really really sweet and laid back, although I admit I was intimidated by his size. He loved going outside and playing in the grass Even my mom, who was seriously afraid of snakes, loved to take him outside for his daily activity when it was pretty outside. The only time he ever showed aggression was when he was in feed mode. He was scary at that point. Other than that, he was a complete baby lol

Now that I have these girls, I realized I probably would have done better with my old burm if I had gotten him as a hatchling. Watching them grow as quickly as they do is really amazing but still gives you time to learn your animal. As long as your husbandry is good, you give them plenty of interaction (I'm a firm believer in interacting frequently with the ones I know are going to be big....it does help keep them calm and handleable) and a set feeding schedule (their feed mode can be pretty extreme), they are the gentle giants of the snake world. That's not saying accidents can't happened and you won't get tagged, but the more interaction you give them, the more they learn you're safe and the more you learn how to read them. But that's pretty much a given with any animal, even 4-legged furry ones.

[Swany]

Aye getting them small would help, but knowing it's gonna hit 12/15ft or more would prevent me from getting one. True what you say about dogs too, I love dogs. But I wouldn't get something I wasn't comfortable with like say an Akita or an American Pitbull. Now before anyone rags me, I know they're not natural born killers, but the potential IS there to do a lot of damage.

[Rogue628]

Originally Posted by Swany

Aye getting them small would help, but knowing it's gonna hit 12/15ft or more would prevent me from getting one. True what you say about dogs too, I love dogs. But I wouldn't get something I wasn't comfortable with like say an Akita or an American Pitbull. Now before anyone rags me, I know they're not natural born killers, but the potential IS there to do a lot of damage.

Ahh....you don't know the breed then. APB's are that way for a reason. They're loyal to their masters to the death. They'd kill themselves if they knew it would please their owners. Add this to how massive and strong these guys can be and that's how they get a bad rep, just like alot of reptiles. I <3 APB's and look forward to getting another one (had one when I was married...the smartest, most stubborn pup I've ever had). When I was a vet tech years ago, I never had a bad interaction with one. The dogs that do put my on my toes are all ankle biters and rots. Rarely did I have a good interaction with small breeds and I can only recall one rot that didn't try to bite my head off. Instead, he rather sit in my lap and squish me to death lol

[Swany]

No Rogue I know how deadly APB's can be, what I mean is that it doesn't automatically follow that it wuold turn on me or the family, I just wouldn't take a chance on something with the potential to do so much damage.

[alessia55]

I'm spending some quality time with Kaybe ♥

[Swany]

Happy times :-) fklgkdjfjfkssajdkdlf ;-)
(Did I get that right I wasn't sure of the spelling ?) lol

[millertime89]

Originally Posted by Swany

Happy times :-) fklgkdjfjfkssajdkdlf ;-)
(Did I get that right I wasn't sure of the spelling ?) lol

its basically SMASH KEYBOARD! and you get the correct result.

[Rogue628]

Originally Posted by Swany

No Rogue I know how deadly APB's can be, what I mean is that it doesn't automatically follow that it wuold turn on me or the family, I just wouldn't take a chance on something with the potential to do so much damage.

Understandable. I'm the same with rotties.

Such an adorable picture, Alessia!

[Swany]

Rotties I really don't have a problem with. Lorraine's friend has one and I'll happily roll about the floor with her. (the dog not lorraine's friend lol) The only dog I have a real problem with is the English bull terrier, I find because of the shape of their face I just can't read them.

[BarelyBreathing]

More dog bites occur from Siberian Huskies and Chihuahuas than pit bulls. The thing is, most of them go unreported because they're "family dogs".

[Swany]

Doesn't surprise me in the least BB, but if a Chihuahua bites me chances are I'm not giong to lose my arm lol

[BarelyBreathing]

If a pit bull bites you and you keep your head about you, you're not going to lose your arm, either.