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Originally Posted by Tom
For me I love big snakes the bigger the better. I do handle all my snake and take them out to play with me and my kids. I am training Tigger my tiger retic to go back in her cage by her self. So far it's working out fine. All I have to do is point her in the right direction and she will go back in on her own. I can even get her to go into a big cooler on her own that I use to take her to the Vet or educational shows I do. She is only 14 feet and 50 + lbs now but when she is 22 feet or bigger and over 250 lbs she will be hard to pick up by myself.
Now for hots I will never own one as I know I would get bit. I just have to hold any snake I own and I know you can't do this with hots.
Take care
Tom
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How old is Tigger? Most retics in captivity never see 19+feet or anywhere close to over 180+pounds so unless Tigger is under 3 years old the chance that she will reach anywhere close to 250lbs pounds is next to zero.
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Originally Posted by razeraze
Tom there are far larger prey consumed by retics. A few human consumptions have been documented as well as a 160lb pig according to Mark Andre Auliya in his book "Taxonomy, Life History, and Conservation of Giant Reptiles in West Kalimantan".
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I am well aware of the retic that ate that 160lb pig and the one at the Frankfurt Zoo that ate a pig that weighed 120 pounds which was described in Murphy, J.C. & Henderson Tales of Giant Snakes book. There are also a lot of accounts of large Eunectes murinus devouring large prey items.
