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Mom? What's a difficult child?
Only me! duh... well we have to have our debugged, sorry bug lovers. But we have scorpions and tarantulas in the house and N has so much anxiety.
So the guys put those stickytraps in the garage. I threw them all away. Because I did not want the lizards or snakes to get stuck. The pest stuff is only supposed to kill the crickets in and around the house and not affect the reptiles. It will just make them have to look elsewhere for bugs.
I was in the garage this morning and was looking for something... I see one of the sticky traps. I go to grab it to throw it away! There is a tail sticking out... crud.
There is a snake in it and a lizard. I had already had to save a skink when they first put them down! We saved it and put him in our reptile tank for 2 days and then released him.
It is another skink and a really pretty black and yellow gopher snake. I have to get the dawn soap and fill the sink a bit. Soak the box with water rub them with dawn. Cut the dumb box off as much as possible without pulling. This took over an 1 1/2. But I got it off of both of them.
The gopher snake was pretty small about a foot. Lizard about 6 inches.
Well we have to keep them for a couple of days so they can rub the rest of the glue off, they can't really get around and the fine sand in the tank helps them rub it off.
We only have one tank, I am thinking, the snake is small, lizard is big.... all will be OK????
The girls are SO excited, they love this stuff.
I am getting them dressed. I walk out to check on Gary the Gopher Snake...
He has encircled Skittles the Skink and is constricting him!!!
I am thinking, how COOL!!! But OH CR@P!!! The girls might freak.
Here I saved the poor guy only to throw him to his demise!
The snake is just going to town...
So I am just playing it cool. Grandpa comes to get the girls, they are going for a sleepover.
I am trying to hurry it along!
See ya guys later, love ya!
K goes over to say good bye to Gary and Skittles and to show Papa...
"MOM, I think he is eating Skittles!!!"
"WOW"
They actually thought it was pretty cool, N was a little freaked. K watched the whole thing, he swallowed that poor guy right down!
So, I explained life and how this is just how the snake lives and how he stays strong... that is what he eats. Mice, birds eggs etc.
I told her she can tell the kids at school all about it!!! K loved it!!!
Gary is lying under his little sun lap fat and happy! We will let him digest for a few days and then release him.
Good job mom... I felt like such a dork at first!!! Well I am still a dork, no not a SPORK.
So the guys put those stickytraps in the garage. I threw them all away. Because I did not want the lizards or snakes to get stuck. The pest stuff is only supposed to kill the crickets in and around the house and not affect the reptiles. It will just make them have to look elsewhere for bugs.
I was in the garage this morning and was looking for something... I see one of the sticky traps. I go to grab it to throw it away! There is a tail sticking out... crud.
There is a snake in it and a lizard. I had already had to save a skink when they first put them down! We saved it and put him in our reptile tank for 2 days and then released him.
It is another skink and a really pretty black and yellow gopher snake. I have to get the dawn soap and fill the sink a bit. Soak the box with water rub them with dawn. Cut the dumb box off as much as possible without pulling. This took over an 1 1/2. But I got it off of both of them.
The gopher snake was pretty small about a foot. Lizard about 6 inches.
Well we have to keep them for a couple of days so they can rub the rest of the glue off, they can't really get around and the fine sand in the tank helps them rub it off.
We only have one tank, I am thinking, the snake is small, lizard is big.... all will be OK????
The girls are SO excited, they love this stuff.
I am getting them dressed. I walk out to check on Gary the Gopher Snake...
He has encircled Skittles the Skink and is constricting him!!!
I am thinking, how COOL!!! But OH CR@P!!! The girls might freak.
Here I saved the poor guy only to throw him to his demise!
The snake is just going to town...
So I am just playing it cool. Grandpa comes to get the girls, they are going for a sleepover.
I am trying to hurry it along!
See ya guys later, love ya!
K goes over to say good bye to Gary and Skittles and to show Papa...
"MOM, I think he is eating Skittles!!!"
"WOW"
They actually thought it was pretty cool, N was a little freaked. K watched the whole thing, he swallowed that poor guy right down!
So, I explained life and how this is just how the snake lives and how he stays strong... that is what he eats. Mice, birds eggs etc.
I told her she can tell the kids at school all about it!!! K loved it!!!
Gary is lying under his little sun lap fat and happy! We will let him digest for a few days and then release him.
Good job mom... I felt like such a dork at first!!! Well I am still a dork, no not a SPORK.
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