Escaped Snake!!!
For those of you with excellent disciphering skills, you will guess by this title, that we have ridded our home of the stinky snapping turtle, to be replaced quickly by one small, grasshopper eating snake. An excellent trade in my opinion: not smelly, eats one time per week and the cage should be cleaned at least once per month. I was considering trading one of the children for another snake...
Until Sunday afternoon.
The herbarium (fancy word for expensive snake home) was sitting on the fireplace mantel to be safe from prying little hands. Apparently, that site is NOT safe from prying little paws. We returned home to find the cage on the floor, open with two worms, one grasshoppper, two crickets and the beloved snake missing. And a very contented cat, licking his paws in the afternoon sunshine.
We did a thorough search and located two of the worms, none of the grasshoppers and crickets. And no snakes. There were hysterics and accusations flung towards the cat that I will not repeat on the Internet for the sake of attracting the kind of google traffic that would be disappointed at my content.
When my spouse came home, he was in the house less than 15 seconds and caught movement in his peripheral vision. It seems the snake had not run for cover under the couches or entertainment unit but rather had taken the long and torturous route to the bathroom.
Though there is still the issue of the crickets....
Until Sunday afternoon.
The herbarium (fancy word for expensive snake home) was sitting on the fireplace mantel to be safe from prying little hands. Apparently, that site is NOT safe from prying little paws. We returned home to find the cage on the floor, open with two worms, one grasshoppper, two crickets and the beloved snake missing. And a very contented cat, licking his paws in the afternoon sunshine.
We did a thorough search and located two of the worms, none of the grasshoppers and crickets. And no snakes. There were hysterics and accusations flung towards the cat that I will not repeat on the Internet for the sake of attracting the kind of google traffic that would be disappointed at my content.
When my spouse came home, he was in the house less than 15 seconds and caught movement in his peripheral vision. It seems the snake had not run for cover under the couches or entertainment unit but rather had taken the long and torturous route to the bathroom.
Though there is still the issue of the crickets....
posted by y-vonne at 11:07 AM
1 Comments:
you didn't tell me about the escaped snake before we visited.
granny
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