Sunrunner
04-04-03, 08:12 PM
Hey I got a funny story about a rock python and a everglades ratsnake.
One day a while back I was cleaning my rock pythons enclosure, well I have the enclosure desgned so that I can open half at a time while a divider can be inserted to keep the rock secure on one side while I clean the other. This way I can do cage maintenence and water changes alone with out taking a stupid risk by being alone with a large mean constrictor.
Anyway I guess I didn't have the glass pushed all the way across becuase he manged to slip out and get behind a bunch of melamine cages, now these cages are pretty much right up against the wall and are 8' tall and about 20 feet long combined, not to mention they are all permanently attached so the unit don't come apart to easy. Also the rock was right up against the far corner. So I call someone over to give me a hand getting him out, we tried to probe him out with a broom handle for nearly two hours but he refused to budge, finally my husband came home and using a large hook he attempts to just drag the snake out by force. Well here he was pulling as hard as he could lying on top of the melamine tanks, suddenly the rock python just gives in and the hook comes flying back and knocks one of the ceiling panles off.
Well what do you know but an everglades ratsnake that had manged to escape almost three months before falls right off of the panel he had been comfortably sitting on that my husband so rudley knocked off with his snake hook. The ratsnake falls on my hubbys head and the rock comes scurrying out back into his tank, both snakes successfully recovered. What a night!!!
One day a while back I was cleaning my rock pythons enclosure, well I have the enclosure desgned so that I can open half at a time while a divider can be inserted to keep the rock secure on one side while I clean the other. This way I can do cage maintenence and water changes alone with out taking a stupid risk by being alone with a large mean constrictor.
Anyway I guess I didn't have the glass pushed all the way across becuase he manged to slip out and get behind a bunch of melamine cages, now these cages are pretty much right up against the wall and are 8' tall and about 20 feet long combined, not to mention they are all permanently attached so the unit don't come apart to easy. Also the rock was right up against the far corner. So I call someone over to give me a hand getting him out, we tried to probe him out with a broom handle for nearly two hours but he refused to budge, finally my husband came home and using a large hook he attempts to just drag the snake out by force. Well here he was pulling as hard as he could lying on top of the melamine tanks, suddenly the rock python just gives in and the hook comes flying back and knocks one of the ceiling panles off.
Well what do you know but an everglades ratsnake that had manged to escape almost three months before falls right off of the panel he had been comfortably sitting on that my husband so rudley knocked off with his snake hook. The ratsnake falls on my hubbys head and the rock comes scurrying out back into his tank, both snakes successfully recovered. What a night!!!