You set your blogger commenting tool to only those users who are registered with blogger.

THANK YOU!!

Edit:

Grrrrrr.... thanks for the really good tip. Unfortunately, the crap spam I did get and didn't like got through with that setting already in place. The only tighter notch on the belt is "Members of this blog". I don't think I want to go there just yet. I don't need another population of users to keep track of. I guess I'll just manually delete the crap out of there. Are there any other tips in this vein? Do I have to manually groom each post for bs comments?

mrnoodle:

Is that your snake? She's beautiful.

Was "Pinky" an underdone mouse, or did you happen to have some spare gerbil babies in the other room?

Slizzy's a darling! I also checked out your blog...mmm...appetizing, yes? heh-heh. By the way, is Pinky a mouse? :thepain:

wolf, lheene, the pinkie was a baby mouse. They're standard fare in the frozen section of the pet food aisle. Each one is $1.29, but considerably less in bulk, I understand. We heat some water, then with the pinkie in the plastic bag from the store, we immerse it into the water to thaw then warm the mouse. This is known as f/t feeding, frozen/thawed feeding. Eventually, he'll graduate to f/t hoppers, baby furry mice, then to f/t adults.

When I was young, we fed live rodents to our snakes. That is not considered a good idea any more. There is some risk to the reptile of being bitten, and with the kind of training from a hatchling to take f/t food, that risk is now zero. Of course it is much easier to just order up a bag of 25 or 50 mice than it is to keep a colony of feed animals in the house.

I started feeding my ball python only thawed dead rats after one bit him on the nose... but then after about a year of it, he just stopped eating them. He wouldn't eat again until I put a live one in there. I still try to get him smaller ones than he can necessarily handle to give him an advantage.

I like snakes....