Posted on 09/20/2022 8:11:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Officers with the Eufaula Police Department in Alabama responded to a home to remove a gray rat snake from the resident's toilet. Photo courtesy of the Eufaula Police Department/Facebook Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Police in Alabama responded to a residence to deal with an unusual situation when the homeowner found a snake in their toilet.
The Eufaula Police Department said officers with the day shift responded to help a homeowner who found a snake in their toilet bowl.
"We never know from one day to the next what kind of call we will receive during our shift," the department said in a Facebook post.
The snake, a "harmless" gray rat snake, was released in "a more suitable habitat," the department said.
"In the snakes defense, he was just trying to reach the homeowner about their car's extended warranty," the post quipped.
While he is large (9 1/2’) we are not small enough to be food. His head is 1/3 the size of my fist. Snakes don’t constrict non-food. Wife and I are empty-nesters. No worries.
“To protect and to Serve”
True, you need a basket full like chicken wings. :)
Our local Chinese & Seafood Buffet Restaurant has Frogs Legs on teh buffet......for the tourist folks from Louisiana....................
When I was a boy, many many decades ago, We had an outhouse up the hill from our house. I hated to use it at night. One night I had to do number two really bad so I took a flashlight and went up there. As I sat on the ‘throne I kept hearing a hissing noise. When I finished the paper worki and opened the door, a king snake met me and he was ‘standing up tall, taller then me for sure. That poor snake had been under the outhouse during my visit. No wonder it was hissing at me!
“for the tourist folks from Louisiana”
OK, that is hilarious... You could fill a boat full of frogs in an hour in Louisiana.
Makes them feel right ‘at home’................
Lol...
The also have unlimited mudbugs!....................(crawdads)............
Ear-Bending Cellmate : ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
H.I. : You ate what?
Ear-Bending Cellmate : We ate sand.
[pause]
H.I. : You ate SAND?
Ear-Bending Cellmate : That's right!
Must be the toilet of a democrat then.
Love them... We have those here in the desert! And Clams... lol
I jumped and yelped.
DH relocated the garter snake and laughed at me.
At least I did not call the police.
Snake found in toilet. Cops got nothing to go on.
People called the cops to take a pitiful little rat snake outta their toilet??
/woulda had a new free pet
The prey does not “suffocate”.
The constriction/compression stops the heartbeat in a surprisingly short time, otherwise, the “suffocating prey” would have a chance to injure the snake.
Rats can hold their breath for 3 minutes, for example.
A constrictor will keep its grip until in no longer feels a heartbeat, which stops quite fast.
Totally.
/Boa fan, here
My first rescue Ibizan Hound was a prissy pants, without equal.
I’ll never forget the time she went outside after a rain and stepped on a big fat nightcrawler.
She screamed like a girl and jumped 3 feet straight up into the air and away from it.
If she’d been wearing a petticoat and pearls, I’m sure she would have been clutching them on her way down.
She refused to go out to pee on rainy nights, after that.
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