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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
March 13, 2008
In a dark, hot room last week, a juvenile black rat was no match for a hungry 35-pound Colombian red-tail boa constrictor.
The rat barely had time to squeak before the female snake, kept for breeding at Bend’s The Reptile Zone, had him wound in a coil of thick muscle and scales.
On a....