Lunch

[ithacaartist]

Somebody posted some animal pics a while ago. I swore to myself I'd get these up, if I ever found them. Off the topic of Lugers about as far as it can get. Nature at work...

First, a water snake dines in the creek that ran behind the house I lived in about 15 years ago. I think it's a trout. The snake held onto the fish in the grip you see, between the back fins. When the fish was completely tired out from towing the snake around, the snake took it up onto the bank and ate it.

The second is my son's boa constrictor, Esmeralda, a red-tailed boa. She's maybe six feet when this pic was taken, and she's choffing an adult rat. When he gave her to "Dan the Snake Man", who takes snakes to schools, etc., she was a little over eleven feet, around 60 pounds, and ate adult rabbits, quite a difference from when she was a baby, 18", a few ounces, and she ate "pinks"--hairless baby mice (Had to be careful thawing them in the microwave, lest they pop!) We used to take her to an annual party held by a friend and let people meet her. I remember the party that was the last she attended, both our backs were shot from taking turns carrying her around, which is why it was the last.