Rescue of another kind...

:gj: :gj:

I've seen one of these.

Years ago, we had a big old "wild" peach tree in our yard, and one day I was inspecting the growing green peaches. I leaned in pretty close, and suddenly a small movement caught my attention, my eyes refocused, and there, not a foot from my nose, was one of these stretched out along a limb.

I froze of course, more to avoid scaring the snake than out of fear. Hubby comes up behind me and wants to know what I'm looking at, so he shoves his head over my shoulder. I calmly told him to stay still. He looks at me real oddly, and I repeat the instruction to stay still. About that time, hubby notices the little snake that is so close hubby could have stuck his tongue out and hit it.

Naturally he freaks out and jumps back, yelling. I just stayed where I was. Through all this commotion, little green snake doesn't move a muscle. He's just stretched out along his limb, probably wondering what on earth our problem was.

Hubby refused to pick peaches with me later that year, he was convinced the snake was out to get him. Now, 8 years later, the guy who freaked over a little 'ol tree snake wants to breed ball pythons. :rolleyes:

Gale

You have a special cat/trainer to get a cat on a leash.

Leash laws for dogs are to protect people and property. People moreso than the property. This biggest domestic cat in the world isn't a threat to human being. The worst you'll get is scratched up. However, many large dogs can cause significant damage and ever death to people.

However, all the cats we had growing up were kept inside for the animals protection. We lived on a curve where people didn't really pay attention when coming around the corner. It was a common occurance that some animal died on our road by getting hit by a car. So we kept them inside so they wouldn't get hit.