My baby bucket is empty.

[Boaphile]

Now it seems like everyone is having babies except me. I haven't had a single baby born this month! This month? It's been months! Something like seven long lonely no goo under my finger nails months. No waiting for those fresh gray babies to shed that first skin months. No grabbing that momma Boa before she grabs me months. No complete change outs cleaning out that goo from all over the cage months. No little periscopes sticking up after pushing those cute little noses out of those membranes to get that first breath of life months. No trying to figure out where I am going to put these new babies months. No babies in my blue baby bucket months.


It' seems like years since the last time I had one little tiny gooey baby here to play with. Bob Martin is showing off those lovely Jungles he had in a "surprise litter" born about a month ago! The Nick Stone, the Cyclone guy, is showing off those kids that make me weak in the knees to see. John and Rich from SalmonBoa.com keep showing off that stuff that just make me sick that I don't own. Clay English is showing off fresh Albino Boas all over the place! Tracy Barker just posted a litter of double and triple het crazy Boas. sniff... Plenty other people showing off the goodies they have produced and why? I submit to you it is only to make me feel more miserable than I already do! Why, even Chris Nicholas has already had one of his famous single baby litters! Single baby litters? "Na na na boo boo I had a baby!" is what I read between the lines in Chris' post. What about me? Nothing! Nadda! Zilch... I am sooooo sad.... sniff sniff... I am a pathetic little man being a big baby and I know it. But what am I to do???


Every time I see another post where someone has more babies, I go check the kids. Or I should say, I check those females that are due first. I have one that could have them any second, but no, nothing there. No babies, not a one. Still I check. Yesterday morning it was snowing here and she was all stretched out tight looking with her tail pulled tight sort of like me running to the bathroom pinching my gluteus maximus together to avoid a premature explosion and the resulting mess. Eventually it passed. She relaxed without so much as the pre-birth turd. Of course she is a tiny girl and she may have hid it under the Aspen just to drive me to these tears. I'm feel like a little kid riding in the back seat of the car asking my Dad, "Are we there yet?" "Are there any babies yet?"... "Are there any babies yet?"... "Are there any babies yet?"... No... nothing yet. Good thing I don't have a drinking problem because this time of year, because I would really have a drinking problem.


Still I wait. Somewhat patiently. Somewhat. Well sort of. OK, so I'm not patiently waiting but walking the floor back and forth living on pins and needles. Does anyone feel sorry for me? My baby bucket is empty. sniff sniff...

	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

[majkill]

before you know it you'll have more babies then you can handle

[BWSmith]

Everyone trying to breed boas with those dirty little mustaches

[spix14]

Is it ok if I giggle at your pain? Because that was pretty funny.

You know, we could work out a deal. I'll go get a couple baby boas, pop them in some easter eggs, and leave them in your bucket...all I ask in return is a couple of those lil' ol' cages you make...I think you make cages, right? I had heard that somewhere I believe...*blinks innocently*

Sound like a good deal to me.

[morti]

I hope that bucket gets some use really soon.

I think our boas are in collusion to drive us nutty.

The one driving me nutty came from you, so it is not that far flung.

If I had any hair left, I'd pull it right out.

Please make sure you post pics here as soon as you smell that smell!

[Brandon28]

:laughs at the innocent blinking: If that works, let me know!


Jeff,
You're a character! You'll be up to your elbows in baby-goo, soon enough! The rest of us commoners will have to live vicariously though you!

[BoaCrazed]

Originally Posted by morti

Please make sure you post pics here as soon as you smell that smell!

God I love that smell...there's nothing like that sweet inhale of the aroma of fresh baby boas.