I think a lot of non-indigo owners get annoyed at me when I tell them how indigos have more "personality" than most other snakes. I guess it is hard to understand unless you have one. Almost every time I take mine out (or even just when I feed him) something funny happens. Today a classic occurred, one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I took him in the backyard and let him crawl around the little fish pond I built. It looked like he really wanted to catch some fish, his tongue was flicking a mile a minute and he kept dipping in the water. Then he aggressively dove down in between some rock, maybe 1/3 of his body went down in the water. After a few seconds, he backs up out of the water... with a kitchen sponge hanging out of his mouth! (I guess I left the sponge in there last time I cleaned the pond.) And he wouldn't let go of it! I ran to get my camera (which must have been a sight for the neighbors, seeing me running with a snake that has a yellow sponge hanging out of its mouth), but he finally dropped it on my office floor as I was getting the camera out of the bag. Damn! Would have been a great picture. Here are a couple pics from after the action died down, and also a few random pics.

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