salebrosus
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In a discussion about animals having escaped some months back i made mention of some animals that have broken free and never returned. The story goes like this (and yes i do have pics!)
The lovely Shane Scarff took my very first clutch of baby carpet python eggs 3 summers ago and hatched 4 beautiful girls and 3 lovely little boys. I was intending to keep one female and male and sell the rest off. I had the males in one tub and the females in another. I get a phone call not long after from my Dad telling me that somone had not put the lid on properly and all the boy snakes had escaped. I was pretty angry as we later discovered that my brothers had been showing them off to their mates.
Two weeks later having a gas bag on the phone to a friend what do i see? One male baby carpet python curled up in between the glass and the fly screen of out family room window. I was stunned as to how the hell it had gotten in there but was rapped that we still had one of the boys left.
A few weeks later i went away for New years eve and when i returned my Dad told me that somone had buggered up and that the boy snake had once again escaped. AS you could imagine i was pretty p#@@ed off.
Well tonight, over two years later my Dad decides to go out into the back yard to kill the cockroaches. He has a love of taking his thongs off and flattening them....we don't spray around our place because of the animals.
He splats one and here's a rustling and a hissing sound... Splats another roach and then sees a snake go bolting for the whole in the brick wall where we had our spa bath fittings put in. After much wrestling with this snake, yelling and screaming at each other we finally get this animal out,that had wrapped itself around everything conceivable inside the wall.
Here's the pics of the little bugger, 2 years living inside our walls so it now gives me hope for the other 4 that have escaped over the years.
He also gave Dad a love bite for his efforts too.
Simone.
The lovely Shane Scarff took my very first clutch of baby carpet python eggs 3 summers ago and hatched 4 beautiful girls and 3 lovely little boys. I was intending to keep one female and male and sell the rest off. I had the males in one tub and the females in another. I get a phone call not long after from my Dad telling me that somone had not put the lid on properly and all the boy snakes had escaped. I was pretty angry as we later discovered that my brothers had been showing them off to their mates.
Two weeks later having a gas bag on the phone to a friend what do i see? One male baby carpet python curled up in between the glass and the fly screen of out family room window. I was stunned as to how the hell it had gotten in there but was rapped that we still had one of the boys left.
A few weeks later i went away for New years eve and when i returned my Dad told me that somone had buggered up and that the boy snake had once again escaped. AS you could imagine i was pretty p#@@ed off.
Well tonight, over two years later my Dad decides to go out into the back yard to kill the cockroaches. He has a love of taking his thongs off and flattening them....we don't spray around our place because of the animals.
He splats one and here's a rustling and a hissing sound... Splats another roach and then sees a snake go bolting for the whole in the brick wall where we had our spa bath fittings put in. After much wrestling with this snake, yelling and screaming at each other we finally get this animal out,that had wrapped itself around everything conceivable inside the wall.
Here's the pics of the little bugger, 2 years living inside our walls so it now gives me hope for the other 4 that have escaped over the years.
He also gave Dad a love bite for his efforts too.
Simone.
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