Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo

http://www.comcast.net/news ^ | 1 18 05 | Associated Press

[heartwood]

"The snake is big enough to handle more than that hamster, easily."

When my family babysat snakes we gave one a mouse and ran. When we checked it out the next morning, the mouse had chewed through the snake's skull. After that it retired from its career in food services.

[JoeFromSidney]

I once knew a woman who was breeding rats to be friendly. Usual method of breeding for a desired characteristic: selecting the "friendliest" to be bred for the next generation. I asked her what she did with the "unfriendly" rats. She said she had a friend who raised snakes.

[Tx Angel]

The hampster has been in there 3 months so far. The snake has shed prior, I'm sure.

[null and void]

whats next, a fox in the hen house, or dogs and cats living together?

[mollynme]

A few years ago, the grandfather of a friend kept a big old barn owl as a pet in a cage. Once, as a special treat, he gave the owl a live chick for lunch. The lonely old owl mothered it instead. They finally had to remove it after it had grown too large for the cage. I think the chick went on to become Sunday dinner. LOL

[from occupied ga]

Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo

The snake is saving the hamster ........ for later

[RegulatorCountry]

A 360 foot long snake? That's longer than a football field.

[DAC21]

Ahhhh, Aren't Bill and Hildabeast cute!

[ericthecurdog]

Classic photo ping.

[mikrofon]

One of these days, he's Gohan to be missing...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Why run? It just amounts to a squeak and a crunch! All the snakes my daughter and I had were caught wild, never had any problems with eating.
Anytime my mother in law was bugging me, I would say "Mary, time to feed the snakes". MIL out the door, no fail! We had a big yellow rat snake in the sofa springs one time, had to coax it out with a hair dryer. MIL always looked under the cushions before she would sit down.

[Mad_as_heck]

Democracy is a hamster living with a snake. Liberty is a well armed hamster living with a snake.

The hamster should just shoot the snake and have over with it. It would make a nice wallet.

[Chinito]

OK, how about a shark & an octopus sharing a tank? It don't turn out the way you think....

Where's my shark?

[SJSAMPLE]

I wonder if they'll make as big a deal when that rat comes up missing?

Probably not.

[libstripper]

When I was a kid many years ago, I was really into snakes, would catch garter snakes and carry them around in my shirt and my jeans' pockets. My mother, OTOH, didn't like snakes for some unfathomable reason. One of the funniest scenes my former next door neighbor remembers from my childhood is my mom standing on the back porch of our house and going through my jeans' pockets, jeans held at arm's length, with the sickest look in the world on her face.

[MeanWestTexan]

This SO reminds me of the parable about the scorpian and the frog(?)

. . . as they both drown, the frog asks "Why did you sting me?"

. . . "Because I am a scorpian."

[SlowBoat407]

Why are you posting videos of Bill and Hillary's honeymoon?

[SJSAMPLE]

During basic training in 1985, I told my country-boy tent-buddy that I wasn't afraid of snakes.

Later that night, while I was sleeping, he took his garter snake and gently placed it upon my neck, which he had been warming with his flashlight.

I felt something cold at my neck and, thinking it was my fart sack zipper, tugged at the offending object. When that garter snake coiled around my hand and wrist it took about .05 seconds to realize what it was. Given that the area had several breeds of rattlesnakes, I wasn't thinking about garter snakes.

I woke up the entire bivouac camp with my screaming ;)

For the next two hours, after word has spread, the entire camp (about 400 soldiers) would periodically break out into uproarious laughter.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When I was about 8, we had a cub scout meeting at my house, all the scouts got to see my mother throw a lawn edger like a spear, and decapitate a rattlesnake, from 20 feet away. Momma never will admit it was pure luck, but since she never had to repeat it, who can say?