Get To Know - Thelma and Louise

​by Terrell Zeigler

Thelma 03/06/2015

Louise 04/30/2015

​First and foremost, I would like to make mention of the image of Louise. If the picture looks familiar, that is because this image is what went on to be our logo. This was not a planned pose and it was almost a year later when I even noticed that the position she was in spelled anything out. Must have been fate haha.

Now on to the important stuff... We picked up Thelma and Louise through a Craigslist ad March 30th of 2014. There was only one picture of them both together sent to me and they were listed as Coastal Jungle crosses. At that particular time, I was new to Carpets and knowing any better about what to purchase and not to purchase. The man I bought them from did have information on who he got them from, but did not have a name so tracking down lineage information on them was going to be difficult. I'll get more into that later. 

What had intrigued me most about these girls was their color and pattern. It wasn't like anything I had personally been aware of at the time other than a black and yellow Jungle. ​I figured they would grow up and the tan portions would turn yellow and the black would become more vivid. After a few sheds it was clear that wasn't going to be the case for these ladies. Early into keeping them, we had separated them with one living with me and one living with April. It was fun comparing growth rate and color change as they got older because they were so small when we got them. Since then, they now both reside with me again and they're definitely not so hard to tell apart as they were when they were younger.

3/30/2014

Fast forward to 2016 and you have two animals that are absolutely beautiful. If I had to pick a better looking one over the other, then my vote would be for Thelma. It was clear when they were younger and starting to color up that they were not going to be yellow snakes and you can see from the pictures below just what I mean. Thelma is a beautiful ivory color while Louise is a nice tan color. Both are beautiful and I love them both for what they are.

01/10/2016

01/08/2016

So the back story on these ladies is a bit convoluted and I have followed the trace back as far as I can, but not much info is there. After about 6 months of searching based on the information given to me, this pointed me toward Randy Wright. I called Mr. Wright on the phone and brought him up to speed on the information I knew about them. He told me that he did do a Coastal x Jungle pairing that matched the timeline of when these two would've hatched. He informed me that it was one of his very last Carpet pairings before he stopped working with them and that he had sold the parents shortly thereafter. This was unfortunate news for me because he could not provide any pictures of the parents or the clutch. He just sold all the babies off and everything he was telling me was matching what the seller had told me. So with no great certainty I can say that Randy may have produced these animals, but I will never know for sure so they will always remain unknowns as far as my records go.

Thelma 9/24/2015

For now, we will just keep raising them up and enjoying these gorgeous animals who have a very bright future here at Designer Exotics.

Thelma in natural sunlight! 03/16/2015

I do have breeding plans for these girls down the line and we do have a male that will pair nicely with these girls who I will do a blog post on in the future. The idea being to selectively breed for more animals looking just like Thelma, if not better. ​We have seen a lot of interest in the progression of this project and this is one that I have been waiting to get into since we got them, but won't see any movement on till 2018 at the earliest. 

Louise deep in shed and pissed! 12/2014

If you have any further questions about Thelma or Louise, feel free to leave a comment below and we'll get back to ya!