Rubber Boa

[Guest]

This is a picture of Jan with a rubber boa that I found last summer ...

They are some times found sunning themselves on trails in the deep woods up here in the north west ..

They are very [tame ] and can be easily picked up and put in a pocket ..

They eat baby mice and the story has it they can eat only once a year and do ok ...

They have small smooth scales and feel like silk ..

 

[Strange_Evil]

Looks cool,how many you have,just the one?

 

[Guest]

They are cool snakes ..

I keep them for a week or so then let them go back where I find them ...

You just pick them up off the trail and put them in your pocket

They just curl up and go to sleep ..

They have a blunt tail that is often scarred up from the mother mouse as the snake distracts the mouse with it [the mouse thinks it`s its head ] as the snake eats the baby mice ..

They are not at all your average garter snake ....

Tobe has a couple last I heard ......

 

[slideaboot]

That is a HUGE rubber boa!!!

I love keeping those guys. They are really sought after by a select group of folks...they tend to be hard to come by.

 

[Toby_H]

Yup, I have a young pair... mine are captive bred and doing great!

They are very hard to come by int he pet industry. Females breed once every 2~3 years and they have 2~7 babies per clutch/brood...

Also the babies go into hibernation after being born before they eat which allows a % of every brood/clutch to not survive until their first spring. This just makes horrible odds for breeding success... They surely are not and will never be a profitable breeding project...

Wild caught ones are protected to some degree in every native environment they come from.

 

[Draco D Tegu]

That looks like something outta a horror flick!