Mike was feeding Baby the 6 month old b.p. last night and the oddest (but rather funny) thing happened.

Baby hit the mouse as usual, very fast and aggressive. I don't know if she missed a bit or Mike let go too fast with the hemostats but the mice sort of flipped in the air and Baby jumped and the dang mouse ended up partly underneath Baby.

Now here's the funny bit LOL. Mike decided he was going to "help" Baby by tugging the mouse out with the hemostats. Well Baby has now instructed my dear husband about the "don't touch MY mouse" rule! Faster than the blink of an eye she made two strikes towards the hemostats and one at Mike's hand. None of them connected and I believe she was just warning him off as I'm sure she could have bite him if she was serious about it.

The truely hilarious part was when our 14 year old son and our 12 year old daughter both chimed in at the EXACT moment that Mike decided to "help" Baby....."don't do that....you are going to make an S.F.E.!!!!!" Being a good lil wife, I of course tried to NOT laugh....much!

Anyway, Mike is fine, Baby is fine and promptly snarfed down her mouse after making her point. We checked her visually and will recheck her again tomorrow to make sure she didn't actually connect with the hemostats.

It's a good lesson tho for our family. Even though Baby is a lovely snake that very easy to handle, she isn't domesticated and we overstepped a boundary. I'm actually glad she did it and the kids were there so we'll all remember to respect our snakes and not get complacent with them.


~~Jo~~