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In reply to the discussion: Watch this snake that dropped into a Charlotte NC kitchen for some eggs: [View all]tblue37
(68,453 posts)am amused at their reluctance to touch this handsome fellow. He was undoubtedly lethargic after his meal, so they easily could have picked him up--carefully, for his comfort's sake after eating, of course--and carried him outside.
If you would like to read some amusing anecdotes about my various snake (and other animal) friends, check out my essays on my Pet Tales website:
http://www.pettales.homestead.com/articleindex.html
You will need to scroll through the article index a little bit to find snake stories specifically, like "Sidewinder on the Desk," "Snakes Got Feet!," "Ah, How Cute!," and "My Snake Ate My Other Snake!" There's also one, "A Skink Named Lunch," about a lizard intended as a meal for a snake that had been off his normal feed (frozen pinkie mice"
for some time, so I had arranged for live food to encourage his appetite. Wraith refused the skink, too, so I simply adopted the skink, named it Lunch, and kept it as part of my menagerie until it died of natural causes two years later.