I got a call early yesterday afternoon from Daddy. He had a call to a house to get a grey rat snake out of some one's bushes. He wanted to know if I wanted him to bring it home to show the kids. I laughed and said it was totally up to him!!
At about 5 o'clock Daddy calls and tells me to send the kids out. Of course they all go running out to see what Daddy has brought home. In a tan sack is a 3 ft long snake (totally guessing its length). Daddy grabs it by the head and lets the kids touch it. It has little teeth and can bite but is not poisonous. It is a constrictor. That is how it kills it prey. Rats. Squeezes them to death. Apparently there is a red rat snake as well.
Daddy told us that as he drove around with it in his car for a couple of hours, it would wiggle all over the passenger seat and try to get into his lap. Can you imagine?? The week before, Daddy caught a pygmy rattler. He said it was really pretty. He chose not to bring that one home. We looked it up online instead! Pretty cool.
After the kids were done observing our grey rat snake, Daddy took him to the woods at the back of the neighborhood to let him go. I am hoping he doesn't find his way back to our house . . . .
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