Ack!
I love snakes! So, so pretty…it’s nice to go for walks in the summer and find garter snakes hiding in flower patches and under old leaves. WANT SUMMER.

Monty, my 4 year old ball python, loves to snugge. It has something to do with my body heat. He would go under my shirt and sit there for hours.

This is him after a bath:

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And days before a shed…you can tell because his eyes are blue:

http://picasaweb.google.com/wh0oznicole/NicoleSZoo/photo#5024347474117855810

One of my college dorm mates had a baby boa constrictor. Every so often a notice would appear by the main entrance: “Snake Feeding at 2:00.” She’d bring home a live mouse and let it loose in the snake’s cage, then 20-25 of us (packed into a 10 x 12 room) would watch it grab the mouse lightning-fast and eat it. Love snakes and mice or hate them, it was pretty impressive.

@ Persephone – Most puters you see in movies and TV are Macs too. YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

More snakefacts: snakes are extra shiny right after they shed their skin. They get a very different, paler, matte, coloring days before shedding, and often their eyes turn blue. (My snakes are albinos with red eyes, and their eyes turn purple.) Then, the coloring returns to normal, and then in the next day or so, they shed and are at their shiniest, most beautiful.

No, no, no! I don’t care whether it’s a frozen mouse — specially bred for reptile consumtion? yuk!! — or not, I will never ever ever feed a mouse, rat, or any other rodent or small furry critter to a snake! The only thing it would get from me is veges and maybe a small piece of hamburger. (Yes, yes I know what it used to be — don’t go there.)

So, I guess my point is this… I will never have a snake. Like I said earlier, they are pretty and I have a great respect for them. But I can’t stand their eating habits.

p.s. this one was cute, though

Snakes like warm places, just like kittehs. Of course it makes sense that you’d find one lounging on a laptop occasionally!

I think snakes are way cool. When I was in fourth grade, a zookeeper brought in an indigo snake named Inky. I thought she was one of the most gorgeous critters I’d ever seen, a deep eggplant color with a shine like 3 coats of TurtleWax (OK, SnakeWax………)

I was the only kid in the class who would even touch her, so I got to hold her while the zookeeper gave his talk. I was Heavy Hot Stuff at the next recess. If I hadn’t earned my way into the Guys’ Club before, I sure did that day!

Theo, over on CuteTalk we were pondering the possible effects of soup on nuffs as opposed to pudding. Some people get offended when the pudding is produced, so I thought maybe nice, warm soup might help calm them. Besides, as we found out from our wildly irregular discussions, everyone loves soup.

I think more snakes are in order for CO :O!
They can be sooo adorables.

And the rattlesnake said,
“I wish I had hands so
I could hug you like a man.”
And then the cactus said,
“Don’t you understand,
My skin is covered with sharp spikes
That’ll stab you like a thousand knives.
A hug would be nice,
But hug my flower with your eyes.”

That song makes me feel warm fuzzy <3