Skippii
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I had Floyd out for some out-in-the-sun fun for a while. He seemed to love it, though I'm sure I loved it more. It always makes me smile, seeing my little critters cruising through the grass, it just looks so natural.
Anyway! After our fun, I brought Floyd back inside and set him on the bench for just a moment while i quickly poured a glass of water. In the 5 or so seconds he was sitting on the bench (don't worry, I never left the room, I was within a foot of him the whole time) he managed to get up to some mischief! My thumb ring which I'd taken off for snakey-time had been sitting on the bench, and Floyd happened upon it. Of course, being the inquisitive little critter he is, he decided to crawl straight through it (of all the bench space he could have crawled on...)
He's just the right size that he could get his head in and about a third of his body before no more would pass through the ring.. Which is of course what happened. For a brief moment I watched him, thinking how lovely he looked and how the pink gemstone brought out his eyes haha.. but within seconds I realised he was too chubs to fit all the way through the ring. At this point, I picked him up and attempted to slide the ring off, but he'd done a good job really wedging himself in there. Pulling back on the ring only raised his scales, and if I kept pulling I feared I would damage him. I spent about 20 minutes trying to gently push his little scales down to slide the ring off.. Thank god Floyd's as chill as he is, I'd imagine most snakes would have gotten tired of the whole activity fast and gotten quite snippy.
20 minutes down, and I was beginning to fear that what I'd originally thought was a cute harmless moment of mischief was going to become quite serious. In a moment of frustration, I stopped trying to work the ring off him. I just looked at him and said "look at you, you cheeky boy, what are we going to do now.." haha yep, I talk to my little ear-less slitherers. I'm aware he couldn't hear me much less understand me, but the timing was brilliant. Almost immediately he did a little backwards wiggle, and he was out of that damn ring! My jaw almost hit the tops of my shoes. I couldn't believe he'd sat there quietly the entire time, letting me try to get the ring off, only to wait until I'd given up to do a little 2 second wiggle and crawl right out of the thing.. Honestly now
Gotta love snakes.. They may not realise it, but they ARE cheeky!
(sorry about the picture quality, I didn't realise, but I accidentally videoed a second of footage instead of taking a photo. So this is a screenshot from the second of video)
Just thought I'd share
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Anyway! After our fun, I brought Floyd back inside and set him on the bench for just a moment while i quickly poured a glass of water. In the 5 or so seconds he was sitting on the bench (don't worry, I never left the room, I was within a foot of him the whole time) he managed to get up to some mischief! My thumb ring which I'd taken off for snakey-time had been sitting on the bench, and Floyd happened upon it. Of course, being the inquisitive little critter he is, he decided to crawl straight through it (of all the bench space he could have crawled on...)
He's just the right size that he could get his head in and about a third of his body before no more would pass through the ring.. Which is of course what happened. For a brief moment I watched him, thinking how lovely he looked and how the pink gemstone brought out his eyes haha.. but within seconds I realised he was too chubs to fit all the way through the ring. At this point, I picked him up and attempted to slide the ring off, but he'd done a good job really wedging himself in there. Pulling back on the ring only raised his scales, and if I kept pulling I feared I would damage him. I spent about 20 minutes trying to gently push his little scales down to slide the ring off.. Thank god Floyd's as chill as he is, I'd imagine most snakes would have gotten tired of the whole activity fast and gotten quite snippy.
20 minutes down, and I was beginning to fear that what I'd originally thought was a cute harmless moment of mischief was going to become quite serious. In a moment of frustration, I stopped trying to work the ring off him. I just looked at him and said "look at you, you cheeky boy, what are we going to do now.." haha yep, I talk to my little ear-less slitherers. I'm aware he couldn't hear me much less understand me, but the timing was brilliant. Almost immediately he did a little backwards wiggle, and he was out of that damn ring! My jaw almost hit the tops of my shoes. I couldn't believe he'd sat there quietly the entire time, letting me try to get the ring off, only to wait until I'd given up to do a little 2 second wiggle and crawl right out of the thing.. Honestly now
Gotta love snakes.. They may not realise it, but they ARE cheeky!
(sorry about the picture quality, I didn't realise, but I accidentally videoed a second of footage instead of taking a photo. So this is a screenshot from the second of video)
Just thought I'd share
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