Posted on 03/11/2021 11:55:35 AM PST by nickcarraway
A snake breeder who accidentally bred a ball python with the shape of three smiley face emojis on its body said he sold the designer reptile for $6,000.
Justin Kobylka, who has been breeding snakes for two decades, said he was attempting to breed ball pythons for the color combination of bright golden yellow and white when he ended up hatching a snake with three yellow smiley faces on its scales.
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The breeder said the snake was born after about eight years of working to breed pythons for the color combination.
Kobylka said he estimates about one in 20 of the snakes he bred for the color combination would have a smiley face, but the snake is the only one he's ended up with that has three faces on its scales.
Kobylka said the "emoji ball python" sold for $6,000.
It was the worst of all possible scenarios.
A 1700s log house with no insulation between the logs and the “new” mud and cow hair “plaster” walls.
When he showed up again, he was a filthy mess, having crawled around in all the gaps over nearly petrified yellow pine studs, floor boards and joists.
He was covered in sap, dust and cobwebs.
I washed him as best I could but I had to wait for his next shed before he looked like a presentable snake again.
He was just lucky it was too chilly for the rat snakes that live in the spaces to be awake and hunting.
God, what a mess that whole thing was.
It means a lot to me that you remembered him.
He’s gone now, having lived a long life but I still think of him.
Really hits me in the feels that someone else remembers him, too.
:)
If you could get them to produce psilocybin or LSD they’d be a bit hit.
Funny— poor BP way out of his environment— trying to act according to his/her nature on whatever it can squeeze or seize. Course we have them and lots more (50 dollar bounty) in the FL Everglades. They were all somebodies pets and now-— working at night killing cats and dogs when they catch them. Really quite something for gator hunting buddies who take them out. Huge some of them.
The poor idjit had only ever been handed already deceased food items.
He had no idea what to do.
The mouse survived and took off.
Probably had a headache.
:D
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