When you're over the frustration you should write about this from HIS perspective, as in "Corny's Big Adventure".Your little boy is all grown up now.
Many years ago I got a yearling Everglades rat snake from a pet store (in Calif); he had escaped & eluded his previous owners for 3 months, & was
finally found OUTSIDE. At that point they decided they weren't "snake-keeping material" & returned him to the pet store, where he found me. The
store mgr. actually asked me to check him out as they'd not been able to handle him without defensive bites...I slid my hand right under his hide &
easily picked him up (whereas they'd been removing the hide -his safety zone- & scaring him with their approach) and the rest was hissstory. He
was a fine snake, beautiful orange, & lived many years with me.
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