OK, many of you know I have a pet snake (Royal python). I tend to buy rats for her to eat, and every now and then she decides not to eat them. This leaves me with a quandary — I don’t like rats, but I don’t like killing things. I have a friend with a much larger snake, but who only eats frozen rats, so I would have to freeze them for him, which means killing them.<\/p>\n
I have had two rats now for about 6 months. They don’t like me, I don’t like them, but I’ve been feeding and caring for them. I got to where I did not have money for any more food for them, and needed to get them frozen. Not my favorite thing. I captured one and put it in a box in the freezer. It took two days for him to become frozen. Then I went back (Friday?) and got the other one.<\/p>\n
Well, it’s Wednesday now, and Nanook chewed through his second cardboard box (this one was very thick) and has been cavorting through my freezer. It’s a good thing I didn’t have much food there, he did devour the remains of my frozen corn and was working on my frozen peas and carrots. He had not yet noticed the chicken, or could not chew through the plastic freezer bags.<\/p>\n
I’m sorry, this is funny. When you open a freezer 5 days after you’ve consigned a creature to a frozen demise, and it just looks back and you and asks you to turn up the temperature a bit, sagas should be written. I also feel I should pull him back out of the freezer, get some litter and food, and put him back in the cage… but I just don’t have the money. I turned up the freezer instead, and hope it makes a difference.<\/p>\n
If anyone would like to support Nanook, and can get me the money before his demise is complete, send money to mordewis@serpentstone.org via PayPal and I’ll pull him out and put him back in the cage…if the support funds are sufficient to go get some pine or corncob litter and a couple pounds of rat food. This is just a horrible month… I’m not sure next month will be better but one month at a time.<\/p>\n
Hugs,
Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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