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FRoberts
at Wed Jul 2 14:49:24 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FRoberts ]
I had a yellow rat snake escape when I was 14.
I found him crawling out my bedroom basement window on my 21st birthday.
That beat being old enough to buy alcohol any day!!!
Yeah we had mice in the house for sure, I used to see them once in awhile but it never dawned on me that snake could live that long in the house. He was several feet bigger when I caught him. I also had a nice black rat escape too, caught him two years later in the back yard on the basement walk in doorway eating a sparrow!!!
Since I live in NJ it was the same yellow rat snake for sure and the black rat was quite distinct and the same one as well, I have never seen a black rat in NJ as of yet. I know they are here but there are none in my vicinity that I have seen, too many people and it is in central NJ. I here most are abundant North and south of me in the state.
>>Many years ago, I forgot I left the lid off one of my young adult Honduran Milksnakes(approx 4 ft.). She escaped, and about two months later, I found her coiled up in the huge front pocket of some shorts I grabbed and was about to put on from the laundry basket sitting on my bedroom floor.......for a second there, I absolutely FREAKED!!!!....I've had many hundreds of snakes in my day, but a big giant softball-sized wad of snake wasn't exactly what I was expecting when I went to grab my shorts that morning..LOL!
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>> After the hair on the back of my neck went back down, I was totally over-joyed to have found her again, as she was one of my very favorite snakes at the time.
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>> ~Doug
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>>"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"
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Thanks,
Frank Roberts
I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.
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I had a snake loose for over 7 years... - FRoberts, Wed Jul 2 14:49:24 2008
