Snake!

[bladespark]

I held a ball python some more today.

I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo want one. If I possibly could have I would have just taken that one home with me, he was totally fearless and active and exploring. He tried to burrow into my elbow the way cats and rats sometimes do, and also made an attempt to get up my jacket sleeve. He was totally adorable! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaant!

I so can't wait until August when I can finally get one.

Also speaking of cute animals, Tari is curled up next to me, belly up, and is letting me give her tummy rubs. Which sometimes she loves, and other times she'll kill you if you touch her stomach. She rolled over after I started petting her this time though, so I figured I was safe from mauling. Kali you can never give tummy rubs. She'll either tolerate them, or contract on your hand and claw the heck out of it with her hind feet while making the most pathetic little sounds, as though you were hurting her, and not the other way around. My cats are nuts, but I suppose most cats are.

Comments

[silveradept]

The ball pythons are fun to hold. There was one in our high school classroom, and it was by far the coolest thing in the room. I think I'd use one to freak out some people, but then introduce them and make sure they knew he was harmless. The kids would probably love to see the python, so I may have to find a good animal person to come into the library. No foul-tempered iguanas, please.

[jtbeckett.livejournal.com]

the cats will be fascinated.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Hee. I've heard somebody who has a ball python and cats say that they python tank is like cat TV. They sit in front of it and watch endlessly.

[jtbeckett.livejournal.com]

yeah... like my border collie (i miss him so much) he used to stare at the rat cage.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

I just went looking at ball pythons (the wonders of the web) and oh my, the leucistic snakes are beautiful! I want one!
Of course, it'll be years before I'm in a position to own any kind of snake. I doubt I'll ever be able to justify the cost of a white one.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! If I had money to fling around I'd get a leucistic for me, and a piebald for JJ, he likes those ones. But when the price is measured in thousands for those, while normals are mayve $100 tops, I really can't justify it, even if I could save that much up. Which I could, eventually.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

I could always just hope one crawls into my shoe one day.

Here, snakey snakey snakey...Here, snakey snake...

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I think you have to go to Africa to find them wild. Or at least to Florida, where a bazillion pet snakes have gotten out and thrived. Pet snakes that escape here in Oregon all die. :(

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Not Yorkshire, then?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

No, probably not Yorkshire either. I think it's a little bit too cold there for ball pythons.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

It's a little bit too cold here for people, or at least pampered southerners, so alas, my shoes are probably safe from snakes.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Woeful and sad.