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More of Alice |
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Alice, a Burmese Python, was purchased from the same pet store as Dameon. Unfortunately, all of my efforts to get this establishment closed or at least forced to maintain better conditions for their animals failed, so I resorted to purchasing as many of their animals I could afford.
Alice was exteremly aggressive, underfed, and being housed in the same enclosure as countless amounts of feces and urine. Her water was filthy, her skin infested with mites, and her eye blurred by a retained eye cap. Now, she is mite-free, incredibly docile once out of her enclosure, and amazingly stunning in appearance. She is very trusting, but she does respond with a threatening display when approached when she is still confined to her tank. A prekilled rabbit eater, she is currently over 12 feet in length, weighs well over pounds, and is difficult to remove from her tank by a single handler (her sheer length means you have to lift her portion by portion when removing her from her enclosure). |
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This is a picture of Alice in her half-way home while she was being quarentined from the rest of my collection. |
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Snakes will "yawn" from time to time, but not from boredom. Here you see Alice resetting her jaw bones after a large meal. |
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Though all of her meals are prekilled, Alice has still retained the strike and squeeze instinct. |
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The protective carpeting during meal time is to ensure that Alice does not ingest any of the tank substrate (which could lead to impaction since it cannot be digested). |
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Here you can see Alice is getting the rabbit into position to allow for swallowing. |
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A mere seven minutes after the adjacent photo and the bloody hind legs are all that remain of Alice's meal. |
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Alice tends to be a messy eater. This is why frequent tank complete tank cleanings and spot cleanings are critical. |
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