...a Snake.
As well as my fur kids, I also have scale kids. Tonight we lost our albino Kingsnake, Nigel. We got him in 2006 and we were told he was 7 years old then so that made him 23. He was quite a character and escaped once (we discovered a gap in the side of the viv where the wood glue had dried out and we think he got out that way) and was missing for 5 months. I thought I'd never see him again but one morning, I was in the kitchen having my coffee and went through to the livingroom. I got the shock of my life when I opened the door and there was Nigel, striking at the cats who were trying to catch him. I grabbed him by the tail, he wasn't happy about that and struck out at me but in typical Kingsnake fashion, missed. I put him back in the viv. I'd never switched his viv heating off so perhaps something in me thought he was still alive which he was.
He was very skinny after his adventure but soon put back on weight after a few good feeds. We think he survived by waiting until the cats were sleeping and slithering under the gap of the kitchen door and drinking water from the water bowls. He would have used that one as the other bowls would have made him vulnerable to the cats. Snakes are more intelligent than people think.
He really was a character and we will miss him.
That now makes 3 of my family I have lost this year - Tia, Chico and now Nigel.
As well as my fur kids, I also have scale kids. Tonight we lost our albino Kingsnake, Nigel. We got him in 2006 and we were told he was 7 years old then so that made him 23. He was quite a character and escaped once (we discovered a gap in the side of the viv where the wood glue had dried out and we think he got out that way) and was missing for 5 months. I thought I'd never see him again but one morning, I was in the kitchen having my coffee and went through to the livingroom. I got the shock of my life when I opened the door and there was Nigel, striking at the cats who were trying to catch him. I grabbed him by the tail, he wasn't happy about that and struck out at me but in typical Kingsnake fashion, missed. I put him back in the viv. I'd never switched his viv heating off so perhaps something in me thought he was still alive which he was.
He was very skinny after his adventure but soon put back on weight after a few good feeds. We think he survived by waiting until the cats were sleeping and slithering under the gap of the kitchen door and drinking water from the water bowls. He would have used that one as the other bowls would have made him vulnerable to the cats. Snakes are more intelligent than people think.
He really was a character and we will miss him.
That now makes 3 of my family I have lost this year - Tia, Chico and now Nigel.
