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Thanks for the message! Yeah, Lucky is quite the trooper. He's been through hell and back and survived.

Hey! You should add me to your friends list.. I'm from maine, lol!

lol..I will check now..you are on and off this thing like crazy..lol..
I'll let you know what I think.

You Have Mail! lol I just sent pictures of Lester. I placed them in a compressed zip folder. Save the folder to your desktop then right click on it and then click extract all. Hope you like them.......because I do.
Jay

Hey you! I need your E-Mail address so I can send you pictures of my great new yellow boy!....lol
Jay

Oh really? I hadn't had time yet to reply to you. PJ had me in the snake room taking pictures for her. I was even nice enouh to take a great photo shoot of "Lester". I was going to send them to you. You better be nice or I may be the proud new owner of the aforementioned breeder male Yellow Ratsnake named "Lester".... . JK. Give me a little bit and I will send you the pictures..... K? geez.
Jay

Hi Amanda,
X-mas was great and nice to hear about Lester. To answer your question. "Caighdeán Roimh Ceithre" means "Quality Before Quantity" Gaelic/Irish. Hope this helps.
Jay

Happy Holidays to you and all your snakies, Amanda!

I'm not planning to cut my hair. ever

Thanks for the comment about my "puppy". He is such a lovable dog. In that pic he is telling me to hurry up and take his pic so we can play fetch.

spelling correction : mycobacterium

Now that is funny. Kind of weird about the tick, but funny about the jar of formaldehyde. What he said and how he said it.
But (off topic) you know I was thinking about all of the species of myobacterium....they virtually all need mammal or bird body temp to grow. (I used to culture the stuff and I.D. it in a hospital microbiology lab.) So, relatively speaking, based on temperatures, humans and snakes are pretty safe with each other.

Don't worry. I had my stash of rotting skulls AND boiled a few, that moms just never knew about. It looks like, from pretty early on, we were destined to have hobbies just a little more "out there" than most other folks. You just can't hold a budding mad scientist down.

Also, and this is bad..
when I was a freshmen in High School I had a Water Dragon...well I had it since 7th grade. Anyway...it died one winter, and I wanted the skeleton to mount on a rock..kinda as a dedication. I adopted this animal from a woman who moved to TX..so, It was Jan. and 5 feet of snow..so no way I could let this naturally decompose..I had to disect it and boil the meat off...and I don't know how I did it...but..that was pretty bad..probably the worst thing I have done...lol..my mom thinks I am a freak..its funny 'cuz the house smelled of chicken soup after that..lol..still wanna be friends..lol

You were saying how odd the things we had in common. One of the hides in one of my cages is an old white terrapin shell that I found in the woods about 35 years ago. I used to collect mammal skulls when I was a kid. Have a bobcat, mink, weasel, and skunk.

One good thing about studying Zoology in the south---plenty of herping to do. Depending on the weather and winter, some species of snakes are out as late as November, and then appearing as early as the first week of March. Used to go night driving in the summer with my mom in highschool (she is very cool) and a couple of my professors in college.

I got my Zo degree at a small university. Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. I really wanted to go into forestry, wildlife management, or work for National Geographic. No Steve Irwin or Bear Grylls back in the early 80's, but I wanted to be something like that.

I took ALL their candy! Muahhahahaha!!! :evil:
Jay

Heck you don't have to pay me your first born anymore.. Since you did guess my name.

I'm just wondering though if that means I also get to stop spinning all this straw into gold for you?

Happy Halloween to you too!!!!