Punishment

[Moocher71 4,050]

2 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Yep I must admit to a life long fascination with Gila's myself. It really makes no earthly difference, to me, whether they happen to be venomous or not. I just love 'em!

There was a bloke, as I remember, got some and was breeding them, if I remember rightly? England.

This would have been a couple of decades back now. Think they were going for a grand or two a pop? Remember that? Got any up dates? I'm entirely out of the loop these days.

I haven't kept reptiles for few year now but I'd have a Gila set up if I could wangle dwa license ,I no few lads around uk that keep lots venomous stuff but only one who had a couple Gila monsters but they never bred ,I've kept most stuff none venomous and mildly venomous like mangrove, vine ,false water cobra ,I'd say they still making over q grand maybe more 8n uk  

[forest of dean redneck 11,721]

2 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

Eating well mate,been flushing it's wounds 4 times a day in saltwater,and wrapping in vet wrap

Hopefully it heals well mate

[Moocher71 4,050]

2 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Had a baby hog nose but it would never eat for me at home ,take it back to the shop and within 24 hours it would eat  so in end gave it back to the reptile dealer who gave it to a work experience student .stunning little snake . 

I've had a few youngsters that wouldn't eat ,vine snakes are fcukers for it and I had to feed young live gold fish to start them eating ,I've had some adults go 3 month without  feeding "mostly ball pythons ", 

[Moocher71 4,050]

3 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

Call yesterday off the Mrs...f***ing Russell dog got upstairs and tried eating my daughter's tortoise ...gave it some antibiotics and flushed it's wounds with saltwater.... didn't think it would make the night tbh...tough little f****r was mobile this morning and eating like nothing happened , hopefully there's no infection

I'd say as long as he's eating and you keep his wounds clean he be OK, surprising how tuff they are .

[Moocher71 4,050]

3 hours ago, mackem said:

I was in marrakesh years ago, there was a bloke in the market selling loads of absolutely tiny chameleon and some tiny tortoises for the equivalent of a quid or two each, really cheap.How easy is it to source a gila monster? 

I could get one easy but it's finding a decent breeder with captive stock and not wild caught one like most are or at least was .

[mackem 27,482]

23 minutes ago, Moocher71 said:

I could get one easy but it's finding a decent breeder with captive stock and not wild caught one like most are or at least was .

Wouldn't mind looking for them in the wild

I just sat down behind the house, sat on the lake bank for about 30 minutes, saw a few turtles, had a pair of otters and their 3 pups swim past and saw two snakes, one certainly a garter. 

[Moocher71 4,050]

13 hours ago, mackem said:

Wouldn't mind looking for them in the wild

I just sat down behind the house, sat on the lake bank for about 30 minutes, saw a few turtles, had a pair of otters and their 3 pups swim past and saw two snakes, one certainly a garter. 

Some one said they see a otter in a lake local to me so hopefully one day I will see it but it might turn out to be a mink .

They a few wild ferrets that people think is polecats but they escaped or been dumped .

[forest of dean redneck 11,721]

Seen polecat 2 weekends ago near bovington running along side the road couldn’t quite see what it had in its mouth though.

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

36 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

couldn’t quite see what it had in its mouth though.

Going right out on a limb here. Stand to get shot down to shit, of course. But, hazarding a wild guess; Might they, just possibly, have been white, pointy things?

 

Had a woman, on a British Free Born Malaysian Melanistic Leopards And Other Disorders Of The Mind group, one time. Swearing up, down and sideways her friend had seen a Wolverine, near some stables in Cumbria.

Nothing, heaven or earth, was gonna shake that conviction. She Knew what she'd seen.

[micky 3,325]

1 hour ago, Moocher71 said:

Some one said they see a otter in a lake local to me so hopefully one day I will see it but it might turn out to be a mink .

They a few wild ferrets that people think is polecats but they escaped or been dumped .

When i was trapping plenty of Rabbits i would catch two or three a season they were nearly always big Fitchitt types though i once had a Albino alive in a Fenn trap , since the Rabbits Declined 5 years ago i have not seen any 

[Daniel cain 46,162]

Loads sunbathing along the 449 to Monmouth

[forest of dean redneck 11,721]

4 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Going right out on a limb here. Stand to get shot down to shit, of course. But, hazarding a wild guess; Might they, just possibly, have been white, pointy things?

 

Had a woman, on a British Free Born Malaysian Melanistic Leopards And Other Disorders Of The Mind group, one time. Swearing up, down and sideways her friend had seen a Wolverine, near some stables in Cumbria.

Nothing, heaven or earth, was gonna shake that conviction. She Knew what she'd seen.

Possibly but it was carrying something in its mouth if you want to be pedantic .

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

1 hour ago, forest of dean redneck said:

 if you want to be pedantic .

No. I wanted to be silly. I do that, now and then. Taking ones self seriously, full time, would make for an onerous occupation.

[Moocher71 4,050]

9 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Seen polecat 2 weekends ago near bovington running along side the road couldn’t quite see what it had in its mouth though.

I was driving home from work couple year ago and me uncul said he'd seen a ferret by side the road so i stopped and we walked back and sure anufe it was a Jill ferret ,me uncul caught it and took it home ,she was nasty at first but calmed down and became good grafter,

I was told forest of dean as a polecat population ,

[dytkos 17,819]

On my last job which I did for almost 3 years, driving mostly rural roads at night, I saw 11 ferrets/polecats but never managed to catch one, despite trying lol.

Cheers, D.