Now here’s something you don’t want to see.
Young Isac McFadden of Abilene Texas saw a “clump” in the toliet. Fortunately, he went to his mother about it rather than investigating himself.
His mother found what looks to be a healthy diamond back rattlesnake in the toilet, which, I guess, puts an end to the old story that rattlers don’t much like water. Isac’s mother killed the snake with a shovel (my grandmother always used a hoe,) and called Big Country Snake Removal.
It turns out that her house was infested. Twenty-three more rattlers were calling the McFadden’s place home. Thirteen of them were hiding out in the cellar and another 10, including six baby snakes, were under the house.
I’ve always been wary of going underground in tornado season. I shine a light and look it over before I venture in. The reason? I know snakes like places like that to … er … hole up. They also like close quarters in the winter.
The snake removal company cleared the snakes out of the house and cellar. From the way the story reads, they were a lot more careful than I would have been about not killing the things. They are quick to remind us that rattlesnakes are “amazing creatures that are really misunderstood.”
You can count me among the misunderstanders.
From Yahoo!:
(Who forgot to flush?Courtesy Big Country Snake Removal)
When young Isac Mcfadden of Abilene, Texas, got up to use the bathroom recently, he found an unexpected surprise in the toilet.
But he knew the “clump” wasn’t the sort to handle on his own, so he called for his mom.
“I found this big clump and I knew it was (a) snake,” he told the local CBS affiliate WTSP.
Not just any snake. A western diamondback rattlesnake, one of the most dangerous species in the US.
The boy’s mother took a shovel and killed the unwelcome toilet explorer. But the family also called Big Country Snake Removal, just to make sure the issue was taken care of.
It wasn’t. (Read the rest here.)
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