Problem is that I don't know how you assist feed in anaconda. there We go, there We go. It's getting in there now perfect
Hey good morning everybody welcome to the vlog it is absolutely a blue sky out here
but for those of you that live in a warm climate and wonder what it's like to be a
Snowy area like Michigan now. You know I hope the start of your day is
Absolutely amazing and I am back here at bhb and today Verde my green anaconda gets one last shot to try to eat you
you guys know I've been trying to get her feed. She hasn't she's starting to lose weight, so what we're gonna
Do is we are gonna try to tuna scenting and see if she'll take that because anacondas really like fish?
If she doesn't eat today
I have no choice, but to assist feed her
So I will show you guys how I assist feeder why I says feeder and just take you guys through the process and hopefully it
Will work out
I will explain exactly what I'm doing as it goes
But let's hope she eats before we get started on that I did want to tell you that this Sunday
Myself Chewy and Noah are gonna
Be at the Scott Smith all animal expo at Wheaton, Illinois, which is right outside of Chicago
so if you guys are in the area
Please come pay us a visit
It would be a lot of fun in the rumor is is that Chewy is actually dressing up as Santa Claus?
So you can come bring your kids and see Chuy Claus if you want to it will be a lot of fun so anyways come
See us if you get a chance
but for now
Let's go ahead and see if Verde my anaconda will eat ok so Jessica actually brought up a great point which was to use
Sardines instead of tuna we have tuna and we have sardines
But I can tell you what these sardines are pretty strong
Smell wise so she's definitely right about that because the whole idea is to try to give Verde something that it would
Really want to eat and again anacondas in the wild eat fish a lot as a matter of fact
There's probably a large part of their diet Believe It or Not which a lot of people would be pretty
Surprised by but you got to remember that
Anacondas basically live in or around the water all the time so a certainly fish are abundant down there
And they're gonna catch them a lot. I'm gonna do is take this rodent right here. Which is a little rat?
I'm gonna basically just smudge these sardines all over it so that the smell of a sardine is all over this rats head
And guys I understand that it's kind of weird to think about taking a frozen road and be
Smashing it into a thing of sardines, but you gotta do whatever you got to do so that your snakes eat
So let's hope that Verde takes this because if Verde doesn't take it
I have no choice, but to try to assist feed it and then of course
I'll tell you why I'm assist feeding it, and why I could potentially benefit it, but first we're gonna
Hope that Verde takes this one so fingers crossed. Hey Verde come on you want this maybe
Do you want this?
So that was a disappointment, I really had high hopes that the sardine scent would work
And it just didn't unfortunately
She just doesn't seem to have any
Response to it whatsoever and there's even a little bit of teasing that I did it's something that a technique
That's called tease feeding, but you almost make them a little bit upset and then they go oh
I'm gonna strike this and I'm gonna coil, and I'm gonna eat it, and she just has no response
She's just such a sweetheart
She doesn't seem to do anything other than just sit there and be awesome a little beard aid I think that I have no choice
But to assist feeder now so what I'm gonna
Do is I'm gonna thout a rodent that is about the size of her head
And then I'm gonna slowly try to work it into your mouth
And then hopefully she'll take it down with that said I've never assisted in anaconda
I have no idea how she's gonna take it or anything like that
But I need to get some food into her because the whole idea behind us is feeding is that once that food is in them
Maybe that kind of sparks their appetite and gets their digestive system going and once they get a meal into them BAM
They're gonna spark off and start eating fingers crossed
I'm gonna go ahead and thaw out a rodent and we're gonna see if this works
So here's the deal you want to start with something that's about the size their head or smaller that way when you put it in
Their mouth they can't spit it out in the hopes are once it's in their mouth
They will eventually take it down by their self problem is that again? I don't know how you assist feed in anaconda
They have pretty powerful jaws. I do a lot of ball pythons, but they are pretty easy about opening their mouths
I don't know how an anaconda is gonna do and I don't want to stress her out
So that's the kind of dilemma right you don't want to do something
That's gonna cause them to stress out because the stress out animal won't eat, but yet
You don't want them to not eat and lose weight
It's kind of one of those things where you just to be honest with you
But I feel like at this point because she has been losing some weight
She certainly still looks really good, but I'm just at that point where I'm like
Let's try to see if we can get her going so what I'm going to do is really
Gently get her behind the head don't stress out little girl. I love you
Oh, I'm going to see if I can't get her to open her mouth with this fuzzy right here. Ah
There we go there. We go. It's getting in there now
perfect oh
Oh well she's got sharp teeth
I'm just gonna kind of push that down a little bit
and
Again what I always say is that you want to make sure that you have it in there far enough?
To where it can't get spit out because if she can spit it out, then I'm in trouble so okay, okay?
I'm gonna leave her like this
And I hope that she'll take it down. Let's go ahead and set her down and see what happens
Come on Verde, so she keeps spitting it out
So I think I'm just gonna hold her and just see if maybe she'll take it down if I'm holding her
This is about the best it's been so far come on girl you need to take it down, sweetheart
Ideally I always set them down because it's definitely usually the best thing to do
But it seems like every time I set her down. She just spits it out
So maybe if I hold her she'll eventually want to eat it
Right now she's basically just trying to figure out what to do. She's never eaten
She doesn't have the experience so she's got this thing in her mouth, and she's not sure exactly what to do
Hopefully her instincts kick in
and she starts to do the whole kind of
I'm not sure what's gonna happen
Alright so guys. It's been a while, so I'm gonna go ahead and set her down again, and hopefully this time. She'll take it
Okay guys, so that was really an unusual thing like I mean she did eventually get it down
But she didn't do the normal kind of snaky thing that you would normally see with another type of snake
But she seemed to somehow just kind of work it down again
That kind of goes back to that kind of inexperience of feeding
I'm not really sure I mean I gotta say it was a success because she did get a meal down
But it was a really weird thing, so let's hope that that kind of improves on time
I don't really know where to take it from here
I'm gonna go ahead and offer food again in another four or five days
And hopefully she'll take it because assist feeding like this is kind of weird
I honestly don't know what it would normally be like but that was definitely the most unusual assist feeding ever
But hey if nothing else she has a meal in her and hopefully that's a good thing okay
Guess what Jessica probably present? Oh my gosh christmas came early so I have no idea
It's light I know that and I'm gonna be a little more gentle with this because normally
I just rip things apart so Thank You Jessica be gentle. Oh my gosh. Okay, so what can this be okay here we go guys
Priority mail
I'm excited
what did i get
You guys you guys are not gonna believe this this is so awesome. Take a look at this
Oh, my gosh. These are all of the Dalmatian geckos
That remember when she sold my gecko number. I had this favorite gecko that I loved
and guess what happened
I was in Florida and these two these two
Conspired and they sold my gecko Jessica you found a hold of Dalmatians Oh my gosh
Okay, this was a brilliant idea Jessica. This is absolutely amazing
This is awesome, and I tell you what guys this one really is a lot like my Dalmatian gecko
And so is this one take a look at that right there?
Oh my gosh and even this one
You did a good job Jessica finding him, so I was like what present could I possibly get in okay so now
I'm not as upset about losing my Dalmatian gecko, although. I did think that was absolutely amazing so wherever got it
You got a beautiful gecko, but guess what I now have four
Dalmatian geckos are we keeping these ones we're gonna keep these ones guys so anyone that wants to go on the website
Do not make an offer for these geckos. They're not for sale
Yeah, i'll go put them on the keeper rack so they don't get mixed up with the other ones
So, thank you so much Jessica that was absolutely amazing
That's because so you have a big responsibility this week because of course Eric usually does a lot of geckos
Oh, yeah, I'm pretty used to doing all this by myself
Yeah, you gotta remember for a long time before Eric Jessica did do it which is?
absolutely insane
At least now she's not quite as crazy, but I have complete faith in her
so I am gonna let you get to work because you've got a lot of cages to clean and feed
Yep, okay, and I'm here if you need me more. Lori will help you
you're never gonna help me, you've never helped me
Exactly I she knows me too well
Before I get out of here
I'm gonna give you a little pep talk I try not to do these too often because I know some people think it's boring
They're like just show us some snakes, but the truth is that I want to talk about some things here
And that is guys don't let people drag you down you know what I mean. It's like that's just kind of unfortunate human nature
I'm not sure what it's all about
But the fact is that people that don't even know you when you start to get success will try to drag you down
They'll make things up
They'll try to do whatever they can do to do it
And I don't know why they would want to do that you know what happens to me all the time
It just recently happened where there's huge threads about what a terrible person
I am and how terrible I care for my animals the truth is I'm gonna be honest with you guys. I don't care
I don't care what those people say they're wasting their breath. It's not gonna stop me
It's not gonna change my direction you guys know the people that support me know that those things aren't true
And I don't have to try to refute what they say about me because I know it's true and the people that support me will
Continue to do it, and I want you guys to think the exact same thing about yourself
Don't let people drag you down don't let people tell you can't do things that you want to do you have to
believe in yourself and use those people as
Motivation to push you to the next level to prove that you aren't what they say you are because the fact is is that it?
Really doesn't matter. They're not going anywhere
They're using their energy to try to drag someone else sound rather than using their energy to try to bring themself up
So just keep pushing people you can do it if you have a dream
Follow it okay enough said I'm done with my little rant my little inspirational speech right there guys
I hope that you guys don't mind it alright to wrap the day up
I actually have a website coming out to do a little bit of a local story
There's this kind of tradition here in the Detroit area in the Great Lakes region
It's called job' nooner in one day a year everyone cuts out of work at noon and goes and hangs out on boats
I've never been on it. I don't think I ever will because I'm just not interested in that party scene regardless
They have a website, and they kind of interview some people that have local interesting stories. They reached out to me
They're coming. I'm gonna show them some snakes and in the end. I hope the people that go to their website
Go that is really awesome, and they learn about snakes
So I'm always looking for ways to reach people so they are about to be here any minute
I'm gonna spend an hour or two with them showing them snakes and showing the love and passion for
Animals that we all share and it's gonna be a great time amen
I guess I'm gonna wrap the day up, but anyways
I'm gonna wait for these guys get here, and we're gonna have some fun
All right guys, so I just spent the last few hours hanging out and talking and doing this interview
I apologize about not filming it
But the truth was is that I was just kind of handling snakes and talking about snakes getting their audience excited about reptiles
I thought it was really awesome. I had such a good time
I wish I would have been able to share it all with you guys
Because it's amazing when you talk to people that are like oh my god. This is awesome and our audience is gonna
Love this. Oh my gosh. I just love it so much, but regardless. I am gonna end the vlog here right now
I am definitely on an emotional high right now
So the rest of the evening is going to be amazing, and I hope that the rest of your day evening night morning
Whatever it might be is absolutely incredible you guys mean the world to me your support is amazing
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