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In this case, I had come home after dropping James off from fighter practice. Deciding I needed a shower, I dropped my clothes in the pile in the garage of fighting clothes that need to be washed with bleach, then proceeded down the hall to my bedroom. As I walked across my house I was wondering why my cat, Junpei, was acting so weird, and why has was so touchy about being picked up. I check him to see if he had been fighting, but there was no visible injury. Then I saw it. a snake about 24 inches long had curled up in the hall in front of my bedroom.
Taking a second look at it, it didn't appear to have noticed me. Taking a third look at it it didn't appear poisonous, since it had the wrong shaped head, its markings didn't look like a rattler's and it was the wrong color for a coral.
However, as I didn't really feel like taking on a snake naked and unarmed, I returned to the garage to put some clothes and my boot on. I grabbed a broom to try and convince it to get out, but no luck.
Thinking a bit, I placed my broom in front of this intruder so it would continue to menace the broom. I returned with a pair of swords and managed to scoop it up in the basket hilts. So now I was caring an angry unknown snake three feet away from me. Obviously, there was only one thing to do...
I hope the mormons like their new pet.
Turns out it was a speckled desert kingsnake, harmless, and a great hunter of rattlers. Maybe I should have kept it in my back yard.
Junpei is fine from his tangle with the snake, just a bit jumpy.
Taking a second look at it, it didn't appear to have noticed me. Taking a third look at it it didn't appear poisonous, since it had the wrong shaped head, its markings didn't look like a rattler's and it was the wrong color for a coral.
However, as I didn't really feel like taking on a snake naked and unarmed, I returned to the garage to put some clothes and my boot on. I grabbed a broom to try and convince it to get out, but no luck.
Thinking a bit, I placed my broom in front of this intruder so it would continue to menace the broom. I returned with a pair of swords and managed to scoop it up in the basket hilts. So now I was caring an angry unknown snake three feet away from me. Obviously, there was only one thing to do...
I hope the mormons like their new pet.
Turns out it was a speckled desert kingsnake, harmless, and a great hunter of rattlers. Maybe I should have kept it in my back yard.
Junpei is fine from his tangle with the snake, just a bit jumpy.
