Office guest in my lap...

[VaBusa]

We actually acquired him yesterday...added to the office's "Wild Kingdom" of lizards, fish and some red-bellied toad

We don't know what kind he is yet...leaning toward a baby black racer because they look similar as juveniles and are prevalent here...

Sucks typing with one hand! He won't get out of my other one

 

[VaBusa]

 

[VaBusa]

 

[VaBusa]

We named him Striker...

 

[thepushercg]

cute little fellow, if he stayed that small.

 

[VaBusa]

...no kidding!

We won't have him too long...hoping to see him thru winter and then let him go...

 

[heavybusa]

How does one come across such a pet?

 

[VaBusa]

(heavybusa @ Oct. 26 2006,11:42) How does one come across such a pet?

Guys at our County garage found him...they heard we are housing a zoo here, so they had him for a few weeks then handed him over...

 

[heavybusa]

well that is good of you.

Poor little orphan.

 

[VaBusa]

He/she will be okay...we've already contacted the Parks and Rec crew and they recommend that we either go ahead and let it go now so it'll have a chance to hibernate for the winter, or if we want to keep it through the cold, we contact a local park in the spring and see if they'd like it since it'll be somewhat docile. They could use it to show kids, etc...

 

[Warputer]

Just a hint of knowledge about pet snakes .....if you don't "handle" them a couple of times each week , they basicly lose the docile attitude . And if U have anything on your hands that smells remotely like food ....Watch out when reaching in the tank to grab him .

I've had a few .

 

[thrasherfox]

How in the heck did you get a black spotted mamba?

Those are rare.. someone must have brought one over from Africa and it had babies or something..

I couldnt find a link to the black spotted mamba, but I found a link to its cousin, just a regular mamba..

They are COOOOL!!


http://www.kingsnake.com/elapids/black_mamba.htm

 

[WWJD]

you could just eat him







PETA! PETA!!!!

 

[Gunnybusa]

That thing is poisonous get rid of it NOW!!

 

[BlueHaya]

That looks like a Burmese Python. Should grow to about 40 feet in a few weeks.

 

[vman1300]

(WWJD @ Oct. 26 2006,12:13) PETA!

I thought that stood for:

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals....

 

[VaBusa]

Blah blah blah...he's not a mamba...

We've narrowed it down to either a black racer or a rat snake...if it's a rat snake, it happens to be the only snake in VA that gets over 6 feet long...

No worries on the lack of handling him; we seem to have a lot of interested employees around here that keep taking him to their desks...

 

[BA BUSA]

EEEEEEEHHHHHHHH A SNAKE....

 

[VaBusa]

(BA BUSA @ Oct. 26 2006,13:18) EEEEEEEHHHHHHHH   A  SNAKE....

...don't be such a girl...

 

[MO-BUSA]

looks like a baby rat snake to me..