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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15/08/2010 : 13:07:09
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Hi, everybody. Well, it's a normal (if you can call it that) Sunday here at chateau BATS. I'd stayed up till 2am watching videos of old steam trains  on youtube, so I didn't get up till 10, when I opened my eyes and saw my new little royal looking out of his viv, watching the cats. After a shaky start owing to shedding, he's eating well now. His feeding day tomorrow, hope he strikes like he did last time.
Got up. Fed cats, fed fish (2 aquariums and pond), made strong muddy coffee (specialite de maison), took mice out to defrost for corns' feeding day, sat down with laptop on doorstep and flexed my brain with a few silly jokes for this forum ....
Now I'm back on the doorstep, looking out on to the jungle in my tiny backyard and hoping the dahlias don't eat me and having a liquid lunch. Well, can't smoke my pipe till I've fed snakeys because of nicotine risk. Can't have too much liquid either - don't want to be drunk in charge of a mouse!
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Posted - 15/08/2010 : 13:19:20
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Ive just got back from the Reptile Expo at Kempton Park.
Im now watching a DVD of Poi!
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 13:33:30
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Forgive my ignorance, but who's Poi?
Did you have a good time at the expo? |
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Posted - 15/08/2010 : 15:25:53
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've just got in from a kids party at a farm near me......all worn out now.
Does it mean i'm a bad person if when they were showing us the days old chicks i was thinking....."hmmm, i bet billi would love one of those, about the right size too..." |
09 Amel Corn
West Mids
STU
Wishlist - Snow, Anery Lavender, Stripe of some sort, Diffused Caramel, Whiteout, Tessera.
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 15:37:24
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3.20 ... Oh boy did I say it was a normal Sunday? I spoke too soon.
Feeding time. No problem, except for my little Miami, who's sporadic at the moment, and Saffron, my butter corn, who's so blue she's more of a margarine corn. So, with it being feeding day for Shahi, my little royal, tomorrow, I thought, bend the rules a little and use up Saffy's mouse.
Shahi was curled up in his tree house, a straw 'mouse nest' attached to the ceiling of the viv amid artificial terrarium leaves. He likes it up there, it's just the right size for a small snake to curl up and pretend he's a big arboreal python, especially as that side still has a towel hanging over it to make him feel more private. I offered him the mouse nose first, with tongs, he struck and coiled, and, as usual, went into deep thought. So I put his towel 'curtain' back down and gave him a few minutes' privacy.
When I checked on him again he was starting to eat his mouse, tail first as usual. Fine, except that I didn't quite like that artificial leaf so close to his jaws... Oh no? Oh yes. Stupidly, I felt that I mustn't interfere, and when, too late, I did, the leaf was disappearing into Shahi's mouth with the mouse ...
OMG!! Well, to cut a long story short, I managed to gently get it out, and he continued to eat his mouse manfully and all is well ...Just hope he doesn't regurge.
But what a thing ... goes to show, you can never be tooo careful - except that I was too careful - I should have gone straight in there and moved the damn leaf.
Stilll shaking ...
And the moral of the story is ... always be alert. This planet needs lerts! |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 17:23:31
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Originally posted by Whitedog
've just got in from a kids party at a farm near me......all worn out now.
Does it mean i'm a bad person if when they were showing us the days old chicks i was thinking....."hmmm, i bet billi would love one of those, about the right size too..."
No, you're not a bad person, just a snake person! We put the snakes' needs first. Anyway, how are those chicks going to end up? Even if they spend a few years laying eggs, unless they're lucky enough to end up in a pet home, they'll be ... well, end up as food of some sort. Sorry didn't notice your post straight away, been a bit of a dramatic afternoon and then someone called and we had tea and biscuits with a biscuit hungry dog. Not being a usual Sunday at all.(Couldn't offer him beer - he had to drive down to Wales!)
What are you other guys doing? Will have to change the name of this thread to the Sunday teatime thread! |
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eeji
The Morph Master
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15/08/2010 : 17:40:14
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just got back from watching the kids at a dancing competition, its been a looooooooooooooooong day!
**edit** Its about to get even longer, theres 62 snakes need cleaning and feeding  , theres a website to update, and theres photos to be taken for the 'Amel Appreciation' thread (yay amels!) |
Forum - Guide to Cornsnake Morphs - Punnett Square Calculator - Breeder Directory
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 17:49:46
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Originally posted by eeji
just got back from watching the kids at a dancing competition, its been a looooooooooooooooong day!
**edit** Its about to get even longer, theres 62 snakes need cleaning and feeding , theres a website to update, and theres photos to be taken for the 'Amel Appreciation' thread (yay amels!)
Just reading this has left me exhausted! Good luck mate!
I take it Lazy Sunday it hasn't been! |
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Posted - 15/08/2010 : 21:20:27
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we had tea and biscuits with a biscuit hungry dog. Not being a usual Sunday at all.(Couldn't offer him beer - he had to drive down to Wales!)
You've got a dog that can drive.....cool  |
09 Amel Corn
West Mids
STU
Wishlist - Snow, Anery Lavender, Stripe of some sort, Diffused Caramel, Whiteout, Tessera.
Plus a Royal Python. |
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stotty01
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1168 Posts |
Posted - 15/08/2010 : 22:55:48
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Originally posted by BurnedAtTheStake
Hi, everybody. Well, it's a normal (if you can call it that) Sunday here at chateau BATS. I'd stayed up till 2am watching videos of old steam trains on youtube, so I didn't get up till 10, when I opened my eyes and saw my new little royal looking out of his viv, watching the cats. After a shaky start owing to shedding, he's eating well now. His feeding day tomorrow, hope he strikes like he did last time.
Got up. Fed cats, fed fish (2 aquariums and pond), made strong muddy coffee (specialite de maison), took mice out to defrost for corns' feeding day, sat down with laptop on doorstep and flexed my brain with a few silly jokes for this forum ....
Now I'm back on the doorstep, looking out on to the jungle in my tiny backyard and hoping the dahlias don't eat me and having a liquid lunch. Well, can't smoke my pipe till I've fed snakeys because of nicotine risk. Can't have too much liquid either - don't want to be drunk in charge of a mouse!
What are you guys doing?
nothing wrong with old steam engines, still love em to this day and im 14 what fish you got then? |
my aunties, bestfriends, hairdressers, friends boyfriend had a snake and it stretched out to measure him to eat him......true story.....
1.0.0 tortoise
1.0.0 sinaloan milk snake
1.0.0 jack russel
0.1.0 anery corn medusa
1.0.0 snow corn abomninable
0.1.0 royal python priscilla
http://www.youtube.com/user/stotty01 dads youtube channel
Tail n scales, Linton, Cambs, CB21 4XN, Tel no 01223 893 508 http://www.tails-n-scales.co.uk/
wish list: boa! |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 01:55:22
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Originally posted by Whitedog
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we had tea and biscuits with a biscuit hungry dog. Not being a usual Sunday at all.(Couldn't offer him beer - he had to drive down to Wales!)
You've got a dog that can drive.....cool
LOL! He's quite a dog! He has been known to visit the opera regularly (his favourite singer is Kathleen Terrier) and he's a journalist - he writes a column in a newsletter for Cwm Penmachno. I kid you not! |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 02:01:44
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Originally posted by stotty01
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Originally posted by BurnedAtTheStake
Hi, everybody. Well, it's a normal (if you can call it that) Sunday here at chateau BATS. I'd stayed up till 2am watching videos of old steam trains on youtube, so I didn't get up till 10, when I opened my eyes and saw my new little royal looking out of his viv, watching the cats. After a shaky start owing to shedding, he's eating well now. His feeding day tomorrow, hope he strikes like he did last time.
Got up. Fed cats, fed fish (2 aquariums and pond), made strong muddy coffee (specialite de maison), took mice out to defrost for corns' feeding day, sat down with laptop on doorstep and flexed my brain with a few silly jokes for this forum ....
Now I'm back on the doorstep, looking out on to the jungle in my tiny backyard and hoping the dahlias don't eat me and having a liquid lunch. Well, can't smoke my pipe till I've fed snakeys because of nicotine risk. Can't have too much liquid either - don't want to be drunk in charge of a mouse!
What are you guys doing?
nothing wrong with old steam engines, still love em to this day and im 14 what fish you got then?
Ah, a fellow enthusiast!
Fish ... 2 tropical plecs,
11 guppies
4 coldwater plecs
3 weather loach
loads of mountain minnows
7 Chinese bitterlings
and in the pond, sarasa comets, a shubunkin and assorted goldfish. I like strange fish like plecs and loach best. What fish have you got? |
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Kehhlyr
ǝʞɐɔ sǝʌoן
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16/08/2010 : 04:24:48
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Whoever can get me a genuine Ancistrus Triradiatus that still has the barbs, and is short bristled would be my best friend forever.
I've got some other fishies as well, but don't take a great deal of notice of them anymore. They're boring. |
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stotty01
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1168 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 09:48:54
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Originally posted by BurnedAtTheStake
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Originally posted by stotty01
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Originally posted by BurnedAtTheStake
Hi, everybody. Well, it's a normal (if you can call it that) Sunday here at chateau BATS. I'd stayed up till 2am watching videos of old steam trains on youtube, so I didn't get up till 10, when I opened my eyes and saw my new little royal looking out of his viv, watching the cats. After a shaky start owing to shedding, he's eating well now. His feeding day tomorrow, hope he strikes like he did last time.
Got up. Fed cats, fed fish (2 aquariums and pond), made strong muddy coffee (specialite de maison), took mice out to defrost for corns' feeding day, sat down with laptop on doorstep and flexed my brain with a few silly jokes for this forum ....
Now I'm back on the doorstep, looking out on to the jungle in my tiny backyard and hoping the dahlias don't eat me and having a liquid lunch. Well, can't smoke my pipe till I've fed snakeys because of nicotine risk. Can't have too much liquid either - don't want to be drunk in charge of a mouse!
What are you guys doing?
nothing wrong with old steam engines, still love em to this day and im 14 what fish you got then?
Ah, a fellow enthusiast!
Fish ... 2 tropical plecs,
11 guppies
4 coldwater plecs
3 weather loach
loads of mountain minnows
7 Chinese bitterlings
and in the pond, sarasa comets, a shubunkin and assorted goldfish. I like strange fish like plecs and loach best. What fish have you got?
why yes i am into bmx more now though
ah not the fish my dad keep then, such as knife fish and arownanas, and if my dad did keep them fish it would probably be dinner for them   apart from the plec |
my aunties, bestfriends, hairdressers, friends boyfriend had a snake and it stretched out to measure him to eat him......true story.....
1.0.0 tortoise
1.0.0 sinaloan milk snake
1.0.0 jack russel
0.1.0 anery corn medusa
1.0.0 snow corn abomninable
0.1.0 royal python priscilla
http://www.youtube.com/user/stotty01 dads youtube channel
Tail n scales, Linton, Cambs, CB21 4XN, Tel no 01223 893 508 http://www.tails-n-scales.co.uk/
wish list: boa! |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 10:10:27
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Hi, Stotty01 and Kehhlyr, those sound like some heavy fish - I'll have to google them. Confess to being a complete ignoramus around everything except plecs and loach - but they're not boring (except when I realise I've committed myself to giving them space in the living room that could usefully be occupied by a viv or two ... |
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stotty01
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1168 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 16:58:11
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| thats why there in the garage, tropical pond :) can only fit one viv in my room :( thats why bookcase is getting moved so i can get a 4ft :D |
my aunties, bestfriends, hairdressers, friends boyfriend had a snake and it stretched out to measure him to eat him......true story.....
1.0.0 tortoise
1.0.0 sinaloan milk snake
1.0.0 jack russel
0.1.0 anery corn medusa
1.0.0 snow corn abomninable
0.1.0 royal python priscilla
http://www.youtube.com/user/stotty01 dads youtube channel
Tail n scales, Linton, Cambs, CB21 4XN, Tel no 01223 893 508 http://www.tails-n-scales.co.uk/
wish list: boa! |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 17:03:48
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You've got a tropical pond in your garage??
Hey, maybe I could have some electric eels in my cellar (if that isn't a shocking suggestion!) Or watt! |
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stotty01
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1168 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 17:25:49
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yeah look :D
before
after :D
could hand feed them aswell
 knife fish...evil one he is
had to get rid of these two :'( ones a red tailed catfish the other one is tiger shovel nose catfish
now thats what i call a mouth full a hour after introducing a new fish...he just ate aswell! |
my aunties, bestfriends, hairdressers, friends boyfriend had a snake and it stretched out to measure him to eat him......true story.....
1.0.0 tortoise
1.0.0 sinaloan milk snake
1.0.0 jack russel
0.1.0 anery corn medusa
1.0.0 snow corn abomninable
0.1.0 royal python priscilla
http://www.youtube.com/user/stotty01 dads youtube channel
Tail n scales, Linton, Cambs, CB21 4XN, Tel no 01223 893 508 http://www.tails-n-scales.co.uk/
wish list: boa! |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 17:31:40
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I am just lost in envy!!!!
Bad luck with the catfish, but OMG what a fabulous plaice .... |
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BurnedAtTheStake
Yearling
United Kingdom
915 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 18:06:34
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Hey, you could get a good few vivs in there too!
Sighs ... still envious! |
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stotty01
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1168 Posts |
Posted - 16/08/2010 : 20:09:21
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| yeah it is very nice to have :) but electric bill is pretty expensive as you can imagine running all that plus the house :/ and yeah i know ;) but it my dads private part of the house, mums is the kitchen she loves making jams and cakes which is tasty :P and my part is my room, music posters, bmx posters, viv, and snake books :) |
my aunties, bestfriends, hairdressers, friends boyfriend had a snake and it stretched out to measure him to eat him......true story.....
1.0.0 tortoise
1.0.0 sinaloan milk snake
1.0.0 jack russel
0.1.0 anery corn medusa
1.0.0 snow corn abomninable
0.1.0 royal python priscilla
http://www.youtube.com/user/stotty01 dads youtube channel
Tail n scales, Linton, Cambs, CB21 4XN, Tel no 01223 893 508 http://www.tails-n-scales.co.uk/
wish list: boa! |
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The Sunday Lunchtime Thread
