The Serpent Mystery
14 March 2007 14:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronWe 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...
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...
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Date: 14 Mar 2007 21:16 (UTC)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!!!
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Date: 14 Mar 2007 23:44 (UTC)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...
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Date: 15 Mar 2007 09:18 (UTC)Lucky for me I'm part of the terribly witty public.
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Date: 15 Mar 2007 16:11 (UTC)