Alice positioned to show how her pattern changes.
We had a great day at Elachee and Alice was a big hit. She was out being held for most all of the five hour event and won the heart of most everyone that came in contact with her. Today is feeding day so I better get busy warming it up for her.
Alice and the rest of the children will be on exhibit at Elachee Snake Day on September 10th. This is their biggest yearly event and our first time as an exhibitor. Hope to get a few pictures to share.
Alice had a good checkup at her vets office today. I took in a stool sample for them and will have the results later this week. She is at 7.3lbs and just a little shy of 7 foot long.
Alice came off her wintertime fast today and ate a medium rat. The last time she had accepted food was December 8th. She basically repeated the same fasting schedule as last year.
Alice is still off feed from her winter fast. I noticed she has been scent marking her habitat, so it will be a week or more before she returns to her normal feeding schedule.
Alice is completely back to her normal routine after her Spring fast. As soon as I started to approach her habitat with the medium rat, she started towards me flicking her tongue. She snatched the rat out of my fingers at the edge of her habitat and pinned it down. Alice ended up partially falling out of her habitat and had to be lifted back into it. Never missing a beat, she started to swallow the rat as soon as I put her back down.
First encounter
She is doing well and is currently off feed like she has done every spring for the past several years.
Today was feeding day for Alice. She had been hunting the past few days and watching me when I was in the room, so I knew she was ready. I layed the medium rat beside her and she pounced on it before I could even let go of the tail. She is getting pretty close to 7′ long now. When I weighed her in February she came in at around 110oz. (6.875lbs). I am working on an article about feeding snakes and hope to get that posted in the near future.
