What a weekend it has been for me!!



It was one of those saturday mornings that I had to clean up all of my honduran milksnake cages and feeding some of them in the process. When I was done with all these right around lunch time, I inadvertently did not secure one of the cages properly and went up to the kitchen to get some lunch. After lunch, I took a nap for about couple of hours and then went back to the garage where I house all my hondos. I noticed that the lid was slightly open and much to my horror, my ghost male that will be ready to breed next season is gone. I basically searched the garage upside down, in and out, nowhere to be found. I remember that the garage sliding door was open during the cleaning process because the sliding door opens up into my garden as i was using the garden hose to clean up some the water bowls. So, i just basically concluded that the snake is either in one of those small cement cracks in the garage that God knows where it leads to, or outside the garden and got eaten by a red tail hawk (there is a resident red tail hawk that perches on my huge tree every now and then). Anyhow, it was almost 4 in the afternoon and by then I concluded that there's no ghost honduran on sight.



So, I started putting away his cage and my dog came down from upstairs to, I guess look for me. He started watching me with a concerned look on his face watching at my distraught face. I started talking to my dog, with some self-deprecation remarks of how stupid I was for not being careful. My dog (a full bred labrador retriever) started sniffing the cage, the snake's hiding place, and the water bowl. I kid you not... it was so strange when I started saying to my dog that I have looked everywhere and maybe he can find him... so I said to him "Go find him, go on...". So he started sniffing the cement floor, and then he went out to the garden, continued sniffing for a couple of minutes more. He then started barking at some pile of firewood stored at the left side of the garden just outside the garage sliding door. I started pulling out the firewood and at the bottom was the ghost honduran!!! I still cannot believe it. I am still shaking my head in utter disbelief even as I am typing this... but I just wanted to share this with you all.



Thanks for reading and below is a pic of the ghost that was missing and yet found. He's now 4 feet long...



Have a wonderful day !



Ray














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