:D <br />Getting woken up at 5:20 in the morning after only a few hours sleep.<br />Is no picnic.<br />But when it's because you got a voicemail from a guy that lives on the next street.<br />Because your dear snake is in his driveway, and scaring the living daylights out of him.<br />It's a cakewalk.<br />I have never been wide awake and presentable in so little time (seriously. like. 2 minutes flat).<br /><br /><img style="WIDTH: 439px; HEIGHT: 390px" height="474" alt="" width="439" src="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v334/___shexxkills/Snakes/butchered.jpg" /><br />That's right.<br />Pandora is home.<br />After a grueling 20 days in the wilderness.<br />I am one of the lucky few.<br />To recover their beloved.<br />She is unharmed. She is still tame.<br />So I'm waiting for the pet store to open, for a big and long-overdue meal.<br />And to call the vet, for the obvious checkup.<br /><br />Do not rain on my parade, please. I am taking all the precautions neccessary to make sure this NEVER even almost happens again. I know the odds were completely against me and that I am incredibly lucky.<br /><br /><br />My other snakes are doing well. <br />September 12 was the one year anniversary of my Dad finding Feroz.<br />He just shed and his tail is healing up real nicely. His skin measured an incredible 8'7" (which puts his actual length somewhere between 7 and 7 1/2 feet). It was in turning this shed rightside out and pinning it on my wall that I noticed that he has a saddle that looks very much like a skull and crossbones. He has two, actually. Which is amazing, or so I thought.<br />So here's some pictures:<br /><lj-cut text="The Skull Saddle, Tail Before/After, and After Eating"><img style="WIDTH: 755px; HEIGHT: 319px" height="328" alt="" width="758" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/___shexxkills/Snakes/DSCF4734.jpg" /><br />When it first happened, and a month later, after a shed.<br /><br /><img height="562" alt="" width="755" src="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v334/___shexxkills/Snakes/DSCF4791.jpg" /><br />Relaxing on the recliner.<br /><br /><img style="WIDTH: 745px; HEIGHT: 373px" height="389" alt="" width="761" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/___shexxkills/Snakes/skullcross.jpg" /><br />One of the skull/crossbones saddles.<br /><br /><img height="677" alt="" width="436" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/___shexxkills/Snakes/DSCF4779.jpg" />nifty after eating pics. <img height="513" alt="" width="682" src="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v334/___shexxkills/Snakes/DSCF4772.jpg" /></lj-cut><br /><br />-peace and love.