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Published: 2013-11-02 18:46:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 2582; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 4
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This is Crescent, my 8 year old female leucistic Texas Rat Snake, posing with some Autumn gourds.
Unfortunately it's not the clearest picture focus-wise, but I love her tongue and the blurry effect of her tongue gives it a look of speed.
My Other Autumn/Thanksgiving Pictures:
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Thank-you Alice! Crescent is my special girl. I love her so much. 
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Wow, now this is so cool! Fnatastic idea and photo, your snake is absolutely stunning!
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Thank-you so much!
I love Crescent with all my heart and I love doing these photo shoots with her. 
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Aww, you guys seem to be very tight!
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Hello Zachary! 
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She's a beauty.
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Can I use the snake as a model to my drawing? I'll mention you in the description and I'll give you a link when it's finished.
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Hello and thank-you for asking.
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Yes, I'll draw her in that postition, but change the color and the head to be more cartoon like. I only you the position as a reference.
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Okay...you can use this picture as a reference and you'll mention me in the description? I'll look forward to seeing it when you're done. 
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fav.me/d7ik3uj I hope you like it
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I really did!
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Thank you very much! And thanks for the fave too
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She is so beautiful! Are these snakes naturally so white?
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Thank-you so much!
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She's really precious.
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Your welcome I love snakes
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Aw... What an elegant beauty! She looks so clean and pure compared to the earthy tones of the gourds. I agree about her tongue. It looks a little like it's moving right now, even though I know it's a still picture. Her head is just a wee bit out of focus, but animals can be unpredictable models like that.
Oooo... I just was to stroke Crescent's pretty little head. ^^
I've heard rat snakes can be aggressive feeders. They're related to corn and milk snakes right? The exact term escapes me at the moment. My apologies.
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Thank-you Echo! I wish her head was a bit more in focus, but her blurry tongue gives it a look of fast speed which I like too.. It can certainly be hard taking pictures of my snakes and geckos, but it's so fun too!
Texas Rats can be a little aggressive, especially when young. In fact, Crescent's previous owner had sold her back to the pet store because she was constantly biting him. Then I bought her and she's such a perfect sweetheart with me...she has given me a few bites in the first 2 years I had her, but not many, and now not at all.
Texas Rat Snakes are in the same family as Corn snakes, which makes them closely related, but not milk snakes though.
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Sounds like you have a way with reptiles. That's really cool. I'm glad she ended up in such a great home. Stories of animals that bite always make me nervous because they don't always turn out very well. It just goes to show your dedication to your scalies that you'd work through something like that. Well, I'm sure it wasn't anything too crazy, but either way.
Not milk snakes? But surely they're related to corn snakes. I don't know any other snakes named after food... (Thinks she's funny. XP)
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Thank-you! Yes, I love Crescent so much, I'm so glad have her. She's my serpent-sister.
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Aw... What a sweetie! Give Crescent some lovin' for me, would you?
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Yes, definitely! I'll give her a hug from you...
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Oh my! What a contrast: The milky white Crescent against those lovely, coloured gourds! 
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I love my precious girl here!
I'm glad you enjoyed her picture...
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I can see why! Crescent is a stunning specimen!
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Crescent is a leucistic variety of Texas Rat Snake...leucistic is a recessive gene that effects a lack of pigmentation, resulting in a pure white snake with blue-grey eyes (unlike the red eyes of the albino). Leucistic is fairly common with the Texas Rats, and with Royal Pythons too, and there is a morph of Corn Snake called a "Snow" that is white too with a bit of yellow. If you ever have a chance to go to a Reptile Expo you will see such amazing animals... I think I asked you before if you had Reptile shows and you said that you didn`t, but I hope one day you will have a chance to go...
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Thanks for sharing! 
Which makes me think: Regarding white lions and tigers, who have bluish-green eyes - these animals have a very similar recessive gene, culminating in a white coat and bluish eyes! Which, unlike their golden or tawny brethren, makes them all the more striking, I believe! 
I hope to see more of Crescent's kind (leucistic snakes) over time! 
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Yes, I don't believe in inbreeding animals to get all of those traits, especially cross-breeding species-it weakens the genes over time. 
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Neither do I. 
animals.pawnation.com/differen… describes what goes on, when lions, tigers and other big cats are bred together! 
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Yes, I just went to the link and I think it's cruel and disgusting too. Why would people want to do that? What's wrong with the species just as they are and the way Mother Nature intended? I think it's arrogant humans just playing God and just because science has advanced enough so that they could do that, they don't stop to think if they should do that...
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bigcatrescue.org/liger-facts/ explains the reasons behind such lunacy. Also, this rather stupid quote from the 2004 smash-hit, Napoleon Dynamite:
Deb: What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
Deb: What's a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite: It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
In other words, the hybrids are merely freaks, for idiots' amusement!
As for those of us who possess actual human intelligence, we'd prefer to see 'lions and tigers and bears, oh my'!
Anything else is just insane - especially regarding the animals' health and safety!
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Yes, I just watched that video and it was so touching and moving-especially with that extremely sensitive and beautiful piano accompaniment...
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I agree: Unnaturally-bred animals such as the liger in the video, really suffer! 
The brave young lady who made the video, really made a point of emphasising just how truly cruel and unnecessary hybridisation is! Just look at what can happen to domesticated animals, once people play God with them!
hubpages.com/hub/Animal-Hybrid…
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I am surprised at the colour here - pure white - is that unusual?
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It's not unusual for her...Crescent is a leucistic Texas Rat Snake.
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'Cocktail of moonbeams and pearls and snowflakes'....wonderful description
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She is very beautiful. Is she a blue eyed leucistic by any chance?
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Thank-you! Yes she is.
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Help-ler: It's so pretty. Pretty snake.I'm going show Tevor.
Come here Tevor master got something for you.
Tevor: :slitter on him:
A rat?
Help: Oh that right it hard for you to see and you cann't smell it on the computer
It's white Rat snake Tevor
Tevor: Sssoundsss niccee masster
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Haha!
Thank-you Master Help-ler and Travor! I`m glad you both enjoyed my beautiful Crescent's picture. I'll go tell Crescent...
Crescent: :slithers over: Thank-you Trevor...
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Help: His name is Tevor and your welcome
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Oh sorry, I got Tevor's name wrong...thank-you again Help-ler and Tevor.
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