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Should be there. Will want card.

Will be there, dunno how late, but as per usual Jena will likely be there before me. Would like card.

sorry I'm late to this topic but I do plan on being there, work permitting, as usual. Jena will be there whether I am or not. Would like card.

Work permitting, I plan to be there and would very much like a card. This will be the beginning of my birthday weekend (bday is on 9th) so if y'all wanna embarrass me or buy me cake that's cool too lol

Will be there. Will want card.

Will B There. Def want card...

card me want have

Will be there. DEFINITELY WANT THAT CARD THAT'S SO BADASS!!!

We will of course be in attendance, and would like a card. Also, if it is at all possible, I'd very much like a print of last week's card, as I love all things Hellraiser.

Sorry so late, yes I'd like a card. See you all tonight.

We will be there as usual. Would definitely like a card.

The card, I would like one.

I would like a card.

The person that left that mouse in the tank with the snake was an idiot and should have known better. I didn't realize you had such a hatred for snakes. I don't know what I expected when I posted this, but this wasn't it.

I never got to go in Labyrinth. It was always closed whenever I went to City. I heard that it was the 18 and under club, was that true?

"No man should have to bury his child, but this has been my share The tears I shed run bitter and wild, it's a heavy burden to bear."

Nicely done. Part of me wants to thank you for not drawing the prospective Japanese customer with slanted eyes lol

So we are the proud owners of a ball python. Have had her for a little over a year now. She's grown quite a bit since we got her from my niece who had her for about a year prior. Originally we fed her 3 mice every 10 to 13 days, but as she grew we upgraded to 4 mice, then to a single small rat, and now to a single medium sized rat. Going from feeding her mice to rats was a very difficult transition for me because about 10 or 15 years ago I had a pet rat. I had no difficulty feeding mice to Thulsa (snake's name), because I see them as inferior to rats. Like goblins to orcs, for those familiar with D&D. But I realized that my duty was to my pet, and I had selected a pet a bit higher on the food chain than my prior pet, so I feed her what she needs to eat. The snake goddess gets her weekly live sacrifices lol That all said, every so often Thulsa refuses food. Sometimes this is because she detects that it's sickly, as I've found when putting the intended prey into a holding cage (which I've dubbed "Pergamum") overnight with food and water only to find it dead in the morning. Sometimes her reasons are all her own. One time I returned a "surviving champion" to the pet store, with the suggestion that it should be placed with those intended to be pets rather than back with the feeders, and that it's resale value should be higher now that it has faced death and emerged victorious. Such an event occurred again this week, although I suspect the reason to be that Thulsa is beginning to shed, and the skin on her eyes has risen up off of them enough to temporarily blind her. She's eaten before despite this condition, so I figured I'd try this time too, but she was totally uninterested. Upon retrieving the little fella (who by the way had extremely huge testicles, quite noticeably so), He kept looking at me as though he was talking to me, in that way that animals who "choose" you as a pet can do. I started to like him, enough so that I mused about naming him something like Testicules or Cojo (short for Cojones). But the idea of keeping him as a pet whilst continuing to sacrifice his kind weekly to the snake just didn't sit right with me. I opened the topic up for debate on my Facebook page, and the idea was suggested that I could get a female and breed them, feeding the offspring to the snake, and in my mind I pictured a Faustian hermit signing a pact with an Elder Thing (me) to sacrifice all of his future progeny to the snake goddess in exchange for his continued life of opulence. As cool as that sounded, I don't really want to put in the effort it takes to commit to successful animal husbandry. Another friend of mine who had owned pythons for a long time (one big enough to require live rabbits) made a convincing point that I would be being disingenuous to the food chain by permitting such a disruption of the natural order. I respect such things, and so I needed a different solution. I thought perhaps I could keep it long enough until she moulted, but I was sure Jena and I would have grown attached to him by then. I prayed on it and went to bed. In the morning, my friend Bob offered to take the little guy as a reward pet for his 6 year old daughter after she did a good job taking care of his cat for the school year prior. She chose a rat as the pet she wanted, and they're intending to get one at the store as well, so hopefully the two will get along (maybe even mate). Only adding this part in so that the reader will have a sense of closure to my tale. The reason I post this is to ask a question of the group: What are your feelings regarding keeping both predator and prey as pets? Am I alone in finding this a (ever so slightly) moral conundrum, or do most people feel nothing when keeping a favorite of a kind whilst feeding it's people to another beast within earshot?

For some reason I decided to start rocking old 90's Pantera. Been listening to Korpiklaani's most recent (2015) album for the last week. Also bought Cannibal Corpse's "Evisceration Plague" which rocks immensely. Found out Shaggy 2 Dope had a new solo album so I got that and bumped it for like a weekend. My music tastes fluctuate in waves, I'll be all listening to technical death metal for a week or two, then go all folk metal, then go all aggrotech, then my juggalo mood kicks in for a week, then back to death metal...

I love the design of this card and I DEFINITELY want one! You may have to give it to Jena in my stead, if the way this week has been going is of any indication. It's quite possible I'll be working too late to attend. Didn't get off till after 10 tonight...

I apologize that I usually can't be there until around 9 since even though my work shift officially ends at 7, I'm rarely done by then and still have to make it home from the office. The good thing is that Jena can still get there on time since we live within walking distance of the restaurant.

My snek sez hai! This is our ball python Thulsa Doom

Finally joined the site officially. Would very much like a card.