Richard's rat snake

myself with my nephew's rat snake. itz got such a beautiful skin/scales. the tail starts off like a thin strip of yellow and black lines, looking like a nylon or plastic cord, then as the markings move up the body they become more spotted & diamond with no stripe/s. my sisterz maid helped me take some of the footage. she was terrified. it was so funny :) i love rat snakes as they resemble the python and boa family [ my fave ] but don't get as big, so one doesn't have to have a huge living area for them. i find it SO cruel confining these large creatures to small unnatural quarters, as some do!!! they need large prey - feed them rabbits and chickens - SORRY... i could NEVER!!! i believe in the food chain, but i love rabbits and fowls, so i guess i'll never own a boa ***sigh*** unless i kept cane rats... now THEREZ an idea that just occured to me!!! i knew professor alexander from durban varsity. she was working on breeding cane rats for human consumption in restaurants as a delicacy! the old duck was sadly run over and killed. i have no idea if her research was continued by another. i must ask her brother and grandchildren. i do know a north coast restaurant had already added this delicacy to their menu back then!

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[HOPSING08]

@warwickharris WTF?

[TMSreptiles]

beautiful

i have a blue beauty vietnamese rat snake

and they r great and dont bite to much

[cyclemania]

that is a Taiwan beauty ratsnake. one of the largest of the rats snakes.

[NigeThePython]

lol why did you go for its head as soon as you went to get him out, lol thats a dam fine snake there, i have only 1 ratsnake a stunted rescue male yellow ratsnake and i love it lol....

[warwickharris]

HAHA yeah i'm laughing. i was gonna say this is the smallest of all anaconda species - they ONLY reach 4 meters LOL thatz why he got them - easier to look after at this stage, housing and food wise. he has so many snakes,[we breeding some very interesting coloured corns, ] and so lotza food is always needed. think he'll be opening a reptile farm here. well is what he wants. watch the baby puff adders vid - i'll look for it - he bred them in the incubator. the GIANT african bullfrogs are awesome

[skaterwhoowns]

good thing he has the yellow ones, Phew, not as aggressive, and not as big!

[warwickharris]

ok interesting. you guys in usa keep more of them than we do, so i wasn't clued up. i thought maybe there was a ball rat snake i'd never heard of. we have our native rock pythons here. very beautiful. also people here keep other exotic pythons, more than the ball. i dunno why!? my nephew also has 2 yellow anacondas. beautiful! cant wait to put them up

[warwickharris]

itz my nephew's and i haven't seen it in a LONG time, so it should be a bit longer, but not much,[it eats less in winter] if longer, then 6'8"

i lay next to it on the ground, and i'm 5'8" and it was a bit longer than me then.

[skaterwhoowns]

GEEZ!, how long is it now 6'8"?

[skaterwhoowns]

a ball is always referred to a ball python