The Serpent Mystery

[glenatron]

We got home from Toronto, brought in our bags and Lou went off to the bathroom. She noticed two things in fairly short order: Firstly, the snake in the bathroom wasn't a grass snake and secondly that there was a snake in the bathroom.

She called me up to concur that she wasn't hallucinating. It seemed like quite a nice sort of snake, perhaps 18" long and light in colour with unevenly shaped red-brown blotches on it and a pointy python-shaped head.

I went to get something to move it to so that we could find it a safer home but when I got back the snake had vanished. We searched around the place but it wasn't anywhere obvious, the guess we made was that it was hiding under the floor. Very surreal.

At first we assumed that mini python was a visitor who had escaped from a neighbours' house while we were away, but looking for him under the bath I spotted a discarded snake skin that may indicate he's been living here, silent and unnoticed, for quite a while. From what I can tell he's probably a spotted python- they're quite a common pet and seem to match the appearance I remember.

Frankly, if he's the reason that we haven't seen many big spiders around the house this year and the mice in the attic have quietened down a bit he's a very welcome guest...

Comments

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

How VERY strange! I presume you dont have any cats?

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

We don't indeed. My mum is very allergic to them so she wouldn't be able to visit if we did.

She's allergic to horses too, but you can at least get horse-fur-free clothes if you're careful cos they don't come into your house too often...

[baddynono.livejournal.com]

How big can mini spotted pythons get?

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

They only get about 4 feet long when they grow up.

The other kind he could be is a Burmese Python. They grow to 18 feet long. I don't think he is one of them, though...

[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's your Totem Beast, acquired from across the sea...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

But cananananananananananananananadia doesn't have many tropical snakes. Unless by "across the sea" you mean "under the bath" in which case, could well be correct.

[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

I've seen pictures of snakes in the Arizona desert. It's all the same continent...

[shiva-matimbres.livejournal.com]

eww creepy

i prefer spiders and mice to snakes by a long way

[chrissieangel.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD!!!

OH MY GOD!!!

OH MY GOD!!!

People do that??? They let unwanted snakes out and about to terrify the unwitting public and to break into people's houses????

I think I need to go and lie down. I musst get dug to look under the bed first though!!!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he was let out, I wouldn't be surprised if he found his own way out to be honest. He seems an independent-minded character.

I'm fine with him being around, but I may be concerned if he decides that our bed is the warmest place in the house...

[thewhitespider.livejournal.com]

Heh - even better. People have snakes, which just escape to terrify the unwitting public?

Lucky for me I'm part of the terribly witty public.

[shiva-matimbres.livejournal.com]

i may not visit for a while, I'm a wuss when it comes to snakes, but there again i think i'd be scared of ghosts too, so maybe its a good job i'm working this weekend instead of coming down

[stu-the-elder.livejournal.com]

I recall a large spider that used to live under our bath when my family lived on a farm some years ago. It was unlikely to be able to pierce our skin. While non-poisonous, I'd be wary of either the bite or the unexpected presence of that snake a bit more than I would be of the hairy bathroom spider.

Time for the RSPCA perhaps..

- Crump

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

But it's only a small python. It would be hard-pressed to take more than a finger...