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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by n/a[/i] [br]Feeding day for the royals. Surahi's excused, being blue, so that just leaves Shahi and Saada. Saada's eaten once in almost two months; Shahi twice in six weeks, so this is a formality really. If they don't eat, well they don't eat, and, if the rodent can be saved in a fresh condition, the corns will finish leftovers. Shahi's normally a strike feeder in a separate rub; Saada likes to eat in her viv. However, I seem to have restarted Shahi by leaving a mouse at the mouth of his hide, so that's what I did today. An hour or two before I disturbed these two and put down a doggy feeding mat beneath each cold hide in their vivs, then left them to settle before introducing the prey. Not a success. Prey ignored. I opened Shahi's viv and drew the mouse out by its tail, swinging the poor thing to see if he'd be interested ...No ... YES! He wasn't in the hide, he was up on his climbing branch, uncoiling, eyes shining. I grabbed the tongs and presented mousey and - bam! He struck - and coiled and started to eat it tail first. Idiot! He got all tangled up with the tail and feet and ended up wrestling with the thing for ages. It wouldn't go down. He didn't seem to grasp the fact that he needed to straighten out his neck to get its bulk down. He spat it out and, holding it in his coils, mouthed it again, clearly hungry, but very frustrated, like someone trying to eat spaghetti with a teaspoon. It was at this point I had a stroke of inspiration. I wanted to switch Shahi on to rats, didn't I? Saada's rat lay ignored in her viv. What if I warmed it at the hot end, then chose a moment when poor miserable Shahi spat his mouse out, yet again, when I could offer the fresh hot rat ... and take advantage of him?? For about the fifth time he spat his mouse out, mangled and covered in snake saliva. Then he saw something else. A hot grey velvety rat nose. THAT looked a lot easier ...He grabbed. And HE TOOK IT! HE ATE HIS RAT! The soggy white mouse dropped to the floor of the viv and the rat went down so fast it scarcely touched the sides, tail and all. A minute later, relaxing on his branch, he looked at me. Shahi: You took advantage of me. Lil: Ha - don't you ever tell me you won't eat a rat, my lad! Shahi: I wuz conned. That was a dirty lowdown RAT trick! [:D][:D][:D] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.