As i write this my Boa is (i think) smirking at me.
You are all thinking that i have lost my mind somewhat.
By way of explanation i will say that the snake and me go back a long way...he is about 9yrs old, and i have had him for pretty much all that time.
The first few years were fine...he ate. Lots. Didn't grow very big, even now he is barely 5ft long. His pop was a little 'un too.
But then he discovered the "game".
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Every year he would go off food in, roughly, September. This annual fast would go on till Feb/March. Some times ending much sooner. The purpose (i think) of the game is to drive me insane, because (and here we come to the rules of said game), feeding will ONLY resume when the PRECISE food item is offered.
And every single year the item has to be different.
One year it was hamsters. The other it was brown mice (for a 4ft Boa, i felt this was just embarassing
). Then it was small rats...then it was HUGE rats...then the rats would have to be a certain colour...on it went.
This year he has changed the rules slightly. He decided to stop eating a little earlier than usual. Then just to confuse me he took a rat in December.
Then he began his cunning ploy.
He has since refused all items offered, he has shown equal disregard for species/colour/size. But now it is no longer sufficient for him to just refuse the item.
After trying the usual selection intermitantly (after all, i wouldn't want to stress him
), he has just upped the ante by going into a full defensive, gaping hissing display. Which is something he hasn't done before.
And as i type this, thinking of yet another waisted feeder (rat/white/medium), he is looking at me.
I could swear he has an evil glint in his serpentine eye...
Not the best picture. But you get the idea.
And all that is just his food related evil...i won't bore you with the years of sustained cage dismantlement he has visited upon me.
Does anyone else have a snake that just seems to exist to make your life unpleasent?
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