Apparently Frisco was not in such a giving mood today. So after ten minutes of negotiating, begging, and yelling at Frisco to just do me a favor, eat the rat and be done with it, I was forced to try to rescue the obnixiously victorious little rat from my failure-of-a-snake's cage. Not such an easy task. I am smart enough to know that when a rat and a snake are in close proximity, one does not stick a hand insde said proximity, because since snakes don't have the greatest of eysight, if they choose to strike the rat, they may miss said rat, and extracting oneself from a hungry snake's grasp is extremely difficult, and can be extremely painful. So I bravely grabbed a section of today's newspaper, and tried to grab the stupid little rat while keeping an eye out for Frisco just in case he decided he was hungry. After a good twenty minutes of once again negotiating, begging, and yelling at the rat to get away from the snake and closer to my hand, I was back where I started. Obviously the little rat didn't trust me, and I don't blame it. After all, I did drop it in a cage-o-death with a seemingly very hungry snake. I finally pulled Frisco out of the cage, set him in the bathtub (since he was covered in rat-poo i was not putting him anywhere else), dropped a gift bag in the cage and let the little rat jump in it, quickly sealing the top of it and pulling him to safety, then proceeded to clean out Frisco's cage, give Frisco a bath (not my favorite thing to do), and figure out what to do with the arrogant little rat.
Now I have a pet snake and a little rat named Lucky, that I have no idea what to do with. I feel bad setting him off in the wild only to be eaten by a stray cat or a different hungry snake, and now I have something of an emotional bond with the little guy, especially now that I've named him. I guess I'll have to get him a little cage and some toys or something. Does anybody even know how to take care of a rat? I mean seriously, do they even do anything? What do they eat? Should I set it free? Keep it as a pet? Give it away? Someone please direct me here, I am completely torn between keeping him safe and warm in my little home, and setting him free to the stray cats and other hungry snakes.
As for Frisco, we are not on speaking terms.
Clearly the description in your header is correct-- you really are a not-so-average girl. I look forward to reading about the adventures of Lucky and Frisco.
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Frisco is a male ball python, and as for Lucky, I have a friend who keeps rats as pets and was kind enough to take him in. After consulting my dad, who knows more about snakes than me from his own experiences, he informed me that keeping Lucky would be hazardous to my (and Lucky's) health, as well as Frisco's (and Lucky's) emotional well being. If I were ever to play with Lucky, I could not go near Frisco for like three days because he would smell Lucky and think it was feeding time. And since I would rather not have snake bites on my hands, I put Lucky in a good home with a nice family. It's the least I could do after attempting to feed him to a hungry snake.
ReplyDeleteCool! A python! As a longtime gerbil owner I was rooting for Lucky. I'm glad you found him/her a good home.
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