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Went to a reptile show last weekend and my father calls saying the mandarin rat bolted under the fridge as he walked in. I told him not to worry and she would be out later.

He goes about the day trying not to step on the girl. Washes some dishes, turns on the garbage disposal. Does not spin. Can you guess what was in there? Out comes a head, and she bolts down the counter. Luckily, she is safe, and he returns her home. Disposal works again. She must have wrapped around it keeping it from spinning, amazing that she made it out. I am hearing this by phone and he is so frantic that I think she didn't make it.

Anyway, be careful when using things like disposals when you have escapees around! I never would have thought that she made it up the counter and down the sink. Glad she is safe.

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Nick Puder
www.rnpreptiles.com

YIKES!!!,.....I started to get a sick feeling when I first read about the garbage disposal being turned on!......wow!,...I'm glad the story had a good ending.

That's just incredible that it survived,....if that motor was a little more powerful, or it was able to just get turning initially,...it would have been all over!....geeesh!

Again,....a GREAT ending!..

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

>>YIKES!!!,.....I started to get a sick feeling when I first read about the garbage disposal being turned on!......wow!,...I'm glad the story had a good ending.
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>> That's just incredible that it survived,....if that motor was a little more powerful, or it was able to just get turning initially,...it would have been all over!....geeesh!
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>> Again,....a GREAT ending!..
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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,

I opened my mouth and out flowed a melody black.

I was hearing the bad ending when he was on the phone, so shaken up that I thought for sure she was no more when he said disposal and then "a snake head came out". Took me a minute to realize that he said she was alive. No visible scratches either.
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Nick Puder
www.rnpreptiles.com

Yikes! Close one..

Matthew