[QUOTE]A snake has been released after living in a rental van for five months.
Mushu the corn snake went missing in June when her owner Gavin Burnett hired the Hertz van to move house.
[B]The Scottish SPCA were called to Aberdeen on Thursday to reports from a "completely terrified" woman of a snake slithering around on a seat.[/B]
Mushu disappeared into the bodywork of her temporary home so was towed to an animal rescue centre where she came out of her own accord on Friday.
Gavin said: "We had been in the process to moving to Glasgow back in June when she went missing.
"When we couldn't find her we stripped the van and put it back together about three times, left bait and water to try and get her to come out.
"After about six days and no sign we just assumed she had escaped from the van altogether.
"It was such a shock to find out she had been spotted in the van and we can't wait to get her back home."[/QUOTE]
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Thank god she didn't hurt it. Snakes can be cool and totally harmless things depending on the species.
Also, what the hell did it eat for five months?
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52877652]Thank god she didn't hurt it. Snakes can be cool and totally harmless things depending on the species.
Also, what the hell did it eat for five months?[/QUOTE]
Their pet dog also went missing...
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Also, what the hell did it eat for five months?[/QUOTE]
Some species of snakes can live without food for ~2 years, so probably nothing.
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52877652]Thank god she didn't hurt it. Snakes can be cool and totally harmless things depending on the species.
Also, what the hell did it eat for five months?[/QUOTE]
Snakes can survive without food for long amounts of time. We typically feed ours every 1-2 weeks, but they can go much longer than that.
Aww, she's adorable!
It thinks its a seatbelt!
There is a good childrens book story in this
Corn snakes are one of the most harmless and adorable snakes ever. I actually don't know if it's true about the harmless thing, but I took care of one for many months and she didn't do anything except escape her feeding bin.
[QUOTE=Penultimate;52877916]Corn snakes are one of the most harmless and adorable snakes ever. I actually don't know if it's true about the harmless thing, but I took care of one for many months and she didn't do anything except escape her feeding bin.[/QUOTE]
I was working one night (I live where they are found natively in the wild) and pulled up to a convenience store to see two employees freaking out, turned out there was a snake on the wall. I sat in my car watching their antics when the male pulled it off and started pinning it's poor head under his shoe like a really bad impersonation of Jeff Corwin or Steve Irwin. I quickly got out of the car while it was visibly struggling and picked it up as they were telling me that it was dangerous and it just wrapped itself around my hands and tried to keep it's head away from the man who pinned it while constantly staring at him. It then sat there on my hands for about a minute as I explained to them that it was merely a corn snake and that they were harmless before releasing it into a nearby bush.
Plz don't hurt harmless brickclimbing noodle.
D'awwwww, it went on a little adventure on it's own! :3
Corn snakes are cute, I wish we had more here instead of aggressive murdering arsewipes. Thank god it didn't remember some of the basics of CQC.
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