omg-snakes:Weigh day was hard on Mouse, the albino Everglades rat snake. She was TERRIFIED of the ta
omg-snakes:Weigh day was hard on Mouse, the albino Everglades rat snake. She was TERRIFIED of the tape measure and kept bolting every time she saw it. But we gotta take measurements and being afraid of a non-scary thing isn’t a valid excuse not to document growth, so I tried to convince her it wasn’t a devil monster coming to eat her tiny self. Eventually she just covered her eyes with her tail and faced away from it, so this is the photo I had to use on the SerpWidgets snake measuring tool.Afterwards I spent a little time consoling her, and then she got to go home and have dinner.“Is it gone yet?”Yes, baby, it’s gone now. No more tape measure.“Are you sure??”I wonder if you might have an easier time measuring her on something like a cutting mat? Like one of these. They have measurements marked on them, but they’re not snake-shaped! -- source link