Re: rabbits, partly ot

Omelet <ompomelet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:ompomelet-946D05.02532015072010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

In article <20100714184312.469$gX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nick Cramer <n_cramerSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Stormmee" <rgrass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
shudder... i know someone has to love them its not me, anything i
put my hands better be warm and for the most part furry, Lee
"Omelet" <ompomelet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
[ . . . ]
Reminds me of a very amusing story about me and a rescued ball
python... --

Pythons can be pretty aggressive, and may bite without seeming
provocation. Boas, on the other hand, are, for the most part, quite
gentle. I've handled several large ones in Thailand.

She was hungry. <g> She was a rescue that the animal shelter had
removed as a stray from someone's home she'd wandered in to.

She was so hungry, she shot through her open cage door to strike at
the rat I was fixin' to offer her.

Missed the rat and buried both rows of upper and lower jaw teeth into
my belly which was bare. I was running around the house in a sports
top as it was summer.

Snake teeth are shaped like fish hooks. It took some careful
manipulation and cooperation on her part to pry her teeth from my
skin. <sigh>

She was a good sized snake and weighed about 25 lbs. Left a neat row
of double teeth marks in my skin about 6" long by 2" wide.

It's amusing because 2 nights later, I was hanging around down in the
ER at work as it was a bit slow. The ER doc knew that I was in to
animal rescue so asked me if I knew what a non-poisonous snake bite
looked like as they'd just gotten in a kid that was snake bit.

I lifted up my scrub shirt and said "Yeah, it looks just like this,
only probably smaller".

He laughed and asked how I'd gotten it. A couple of nurses watching
turned a bit green... <eg>

Turns out the kid had been bitten by a Texas Rat Snake. No big
deal...

As a general rule, Ball Pythons are pretty mellow. Just not very
bright!

Om.,

I'm waiting for the 3D IMax Movie after the book tops the NY Times best
seller list, 'The life and Time of Omelet!'

--
regards,

piedmont (michael)

the practical bbq'r!; http://sites.google.com/site/thepracticalbbqr/
.

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