Not A Burmese Python.....

[Kristy_07]

I know I was looking for more exciting things, like a retic or a tortoise, but it turned out to be more difficult than I thought....

In the meantime....

REX!!

 

[AM Pythons]

what is it? a fluffy rat?

 

[J-A-X]

Not sure what it is, but its really cute and is having a really bad hair day :lol:

 

[Kristy_07]

it's a hampster... yes, a fluffy rat I thought I'd get one, since I always wanted one as a kid, and, of course, we can't have them in Oz. His name is Rex. He likes cereal, air-con, but not me very much

 

[underunden]

it looks so fake... haha lol. is it a rex rat or something? is that why u called it REX!? lol

 

[Kristy_07]

His hair is a bit young einstein, eh? Even though he spends 60% of his time grooming himself.

His name is Rex cuz there was a series of books I like a few years back with a hamster called Rex in it.

 

[AM Pythons]

very cute..

 

[AM Pythons]

so you got the snake food before getting the snake... forward thinking... good work

 

[REPTILIAN-KMAN]

looks like python food to me ?????

can i burrow rexy ?

please just for a while ?

it wont hurt ?

 

[AM Pythons]

looks like python food to me ?????

can i burrow rexy ?

please just for a while ?

it wont hurt ?

yer but the ride in an envolope through the post from vietnam might

 

[AllThingsReptile]

yer but the ride in an envolope through the post from vietnam might

just a little

 

[Amby_Purr]

awww he's adoreable....

 

[Kristy_07]

so you got the snake food before getting the snake... forward thinking... good work

This did cross my mind, but don't tell rex that

 

[evozz]

Out of curiosity, why can't you have a hamster in australia?! Or do you mean that specific species?

 

[Kristy_07]

No, you just can't have them in Australia. They're exoctic... you know like rats, ferrets, rabbits...

Don't know why, you just can't have them.

 

[Fantazmic]

that rat/hamster is ansolutely amazing....come on guys a bit of line breeding and surely we could breed rats that look like that here....i mean they breed and breed surely someone could create a designer rat like that...just look for the ones with the long hair lol......i desperately want one !!!!!!!

 

[mun1984]

Hamsters are evil..... from my experiences....they like human blood....

 

[Kenshin]

how long you in nam for? they got a heap of wicked colubrids over there

 

[Kristy_07]

Kenshin, I'm here for the year, but haven't been able to go herping yet. I'm trying to find out a bit more about the snake situation here - they eat and drink heaps of them, but I haven't been able to find out whether they're all wild caught, or there's a few people with farms. Would be super easy to breed over here with temps and humidity conditions, but my friend in WWF assures me they are all wild caught. I don't think it's true, I've seen turtle and frog farms so far, why not snakes? There's supposed to be a cool reptile park down in HCMC, but also displays wild caughts, then trafficks plenty of stuff through to china. So not sure - it's put me off buying a python until I know what the deal is.

 

[Kenshin]

pretty sure markets sell locally caught reptiles live as food, you should go there save afew keep em and release before you go

dont forget to post pics!