OrlandoBelle
29-09-2009, 06:31 AM
I just thought I would share this little delight with you all. It's made me feel quite queasy.
My sister is a nail technician and was doing the nails of one of her regulars the other night who have a pet snake. Not just a little one, but a HUGE great big thing. They shut it in its cage at night but during the day it had free range of the house. A few weeks ago it stopped eating and they got really worried about it. It also used to lie on the lady and her husband's bed... but had recently started making these really strange stretching movements that it had never done before whilst on it. It wasn't shedding its skin or anything so they decided to take it to the vets.
The vet said that the reason why it had stopped eating was because it was fasting in preparation for a big meal and the stretching movements it was making on the bed was actually the snake sizing up the lady..... she was going to be his big meal!!!
*shudders*
Why do people have snakes as pets?? I can understand little ones as I think they're quite cute... but not big ones. When we were in Florida in June a pet boa constrictor strangled a 2 year old in her cot while her parents were asleep. The dad found them in the morning and shot the snake but the little girl was already dead. The thing is though, the snake had already been found in her cot the week before... you'd think after that warning they would've got rid of it!
My sister is a nail technician and was doing the nails of one of her regulars the other night who have a pet snake. Not just a little one, but a HUGE great big thing. They shut it in its cage at night but during the day it had free range of the house. A few weeks ago it stopped eating and they got really worried about it. It also used to lie on the lady and her husband's bed... but had recently started making these really strange stretching movements that it had never done before whilst on it. It wasn't shedding its skin or anything so they decided to take it to the vets.
The vet said that the reason why it had stopped eating was because it was fasting in preparation for a big meal and the stretching movements it was making on the bed was actually the snake sizing up the lady..... she was going to be his big meal!!!
*shudders*
Why do people have snakes as pets?? I can understand little ones as I think they're quite cute... but not big ones. When we were in Florida in June a pet boa constrictor strangled a 2 year old in her cot while her parents were asleep. The dad found them in the morning and shot the snake but the little girl was already dead. The thing is though, the snake had already been found in her cot the week before... you'd think after that warning they would've got rid of it!