After a long week, my cat, Missy and I were enjoying a Saturday morning by sleeping in, when I heard a Bang! from down the hall. My first thought was “What has Bob gotten into now?” I dragged myself out of bed and followed Missy down the hall, where this (warning - not for the snake-o-phobes) is what I found in the living room. Apparently, he didn’t like the painting I had propped up on the mantle, as that was what I heard hitting the ground. He made quite a decoration.
I’m fortunately not scared of snakes, and I knew it was a harmless black snake, so my biggest worry was that he’d break the vase he was wrapped around. My first step was to remove the glass items from the mantle, and we had quite a tug-of-war over that vase. Then I tried to grab him to take him outside, but he wiggle away and wrapped himself in the strap of my laptop case. I finally got him out of there, and carried him outside and let him go in the woods behind our house.
I have no idea how he got inside; this is not something that happens very often. Or ever. Bob is quite the hunter, but I really can’t see him dragging in a four foot black snake. I can only guess that he came in through the cat door and made his way to the living room. I hope he learned his lesson and won’t try it again!
:smack: