surival of the meanest

[Beardo]

Garter snakes *certainly* have fangs. Nice long backwards curving ones. I know quite well as I once spent a half an hour coaxing off my finger. He swallowed my middle finger, up to my hand! Cut my finger to ribbons once he was extracted! :8o

All snakes have backwards curving teeth lol....its so they can hold onto their prey better.

 

[Crunchie]

Garter snakes *certainly* have fangs. Nice long backwards curving ones. I know quite well as I once spent a half an hour coaxing off my finger. He swallowed my middle finger, up to my hand! Cut my finger to ribbons once he was extracted! :8o

Join the club! It's a pain in the neck(finger) aint it! My little 2' lad managed to do the same with my thumb though thankfully it didnt talk as long to get him off. Cant imagine what it would have been like if it had taken half an hour!

 

[becca81]

I don't think it really matters if the snake is venomous or not. If it is capable of rearing up on the T, then it could bite the spider. Even if there is no venom injected, a bite could possibly fatally injure the T.

Yes, this does happen in the wild. Does the T always win? I doubt it.

Yes, I've got "Predators of the Wild." So what? One spider gets the snake. That doesn't mean that every spider is going to be successful, and I believe that that is stated in the video. The video also depicts a much larger spider.

 

[Kid Dragon]

I don't think it really matters if the snake is venomous or not. If it is capable of rearing up on the T, then it could bite the spider. Even if there is no venom injected, a bite could possibly fatally injure the T.

Yes, this does happen in the wild. Does the T always win? I doubt it.

Yes, I've got "Predators of the Wild." So what? One spider gets the snake. That doesn't mean that every spider is going to be successful, and I believe that that is stated in the video. The video also depicts a much larger spider.

I doubt it was staged...Ts eat huge pit vipers all the time. I feed my A. versicolor slings eastern diamondbacks. Nine out of ten versicolor slings perfer diamondbacks to pinheads. That video was funnier than "Eight Legged Freaks".

 

[Apocalypstick]

I feel so sorry for pinkies... I can't watch if it is alive.
Nature is cruel... the snake very easily could have 'reared up' and killed the T... that's how it is

 

[David Burns]

Besides the snake biting don't they coil around their prey or as a defense from attackers. This week-end I saw a corn snake take a pinkie and there was a lot of coiling going on. If that had happened to a T the snake could have broken off legs or crushed an abdomen. This corn snake was only about a foot long and I wouldn't have given it to my hungry 7" C.crawshayi because of possible damage to the T.

 

[shogun804]

I doubt it was staged...Ts eat huge pit vipers all the time. I feed my A. versicolor slings eastern diamondbacks. Nine out of ten versicolor slings perfer diamondbacks to pinheads. That video was funnier than "Eight Legged Freaks".

what?? as in eastern diamond back rattle snakes. T's eat huge pit vipers all the time any proof?

back to topic yeah that does not seem like the best idea but it is your T and you can feed it whatever youd like.

 

[Blasphemy]

I doubt it was staged...Ts eat huge pit vipers all the time. I feed my A. versicolor slings eastern diamondbacks. Nine out of ten versicolor slings perfer diamondbacks to pinheads. That video was funnier than "Eight Legged Freaks".

what?? as in eastern diamond back rattle snakes. T's eat huge pit vipers all the time any proof?

back to topic yeah that does not seem like the best idea but it is your T and you can feed it whatever youd like.

Is your sarcasm detector not working right? Mine exploded when I read that.

 

[shogun804]

damn it thats twice today this is happened :8o

 

[Beardo]

Besides the snake biting don't they coil around their prey or as a defense from attackers. This week-end I saw a corn snake take a pinkie and there was a lot of coiling going on. If that had happened to a T the snake could have broken off legs or crushed an abdomen. This corn snake was only about a foot long and I wouldn't have given it to my hungry 7" C.crawshayi because of possible damage to the T.

Corn Snakes are constrictors. They kill their prey by constriction, that is why you saw the snake coiling around the pinky.

 

[David Burns]

I thought all snake are the same.:wall: live and learn. Thanks for the info.

 

[blacktara]

Lemme get this right

Capturing healthy wild animals and keeping them in captivity for the rest of their lives is acceptable

Breeding other animals solely so they can be fed to critters we keep in captivity is also acceptable

Handling animals and thereby stressing them is ok if this animal is your pet or your "prized T" - even tho in the wild it is not natural for these animals to be handled (or kept as pets) by man

But sacrificing an injured animal to feed another is "playing God"

I'm not saying dont keep pets. I am not trying to claim that animals have equal "rights" with man. I am most definately not a PETA freak

I am just saying I dont see the logic in that line of reasoning