Boy finds snake in breakfast cereal

[missy]

Nano wrote:
"Some sort of food analog. The very name bespeaks of the hand of heavy industry."

HEY - watch it bud - remember, I make Pringles!!!


Missy

[Jerry Freeman]

A two-foot snake found its way into a packet of breakfast cereal, it emerged today.

I want one!

(A two foot long snake will be pretty slender. Not a large animal, really. They can coil up and fit into surprisingly small spaces.)

It reminds me of when Ralph the First accidentally caught himself in an empty Cheerios box. When I pulled the wax paper inside bag out of the box, there was Ralph, standing on his hind paws with his front paws against the side of the bag, calmly gazing out at me.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[I.D.10-t]

I want one!

My wife has one. Very low maintenance. She’s a sneaky girl, the snake, when you are not paying attention she'll stick her tail into a coat pocket or a belt loop and it seems like you need three hands to untangle yourself.

The two footer must be a young one.

The snake we have looks like this

[Darwin]

We called that a "red rat snake". Much prettier than the yellow rat snake, which seems more common in south Texas. (Walking up on a 6-foot yellow rat snake in rattlesnake country can be kinda startling, but no one would mistake a 6-foot cornsnake for a copperhead.)

[Walden]

So, what was a cornsnake doing in a wheat cereal?

Amaizeing, isn't it?

These jokes are getting a little corny.

[Jack]

We called that a "red rat snake". Much prettier than the yellow rat snake, which seems more common in south Texas. (Walking up on a 6-foot yellow rat snake in rattlesnake country can be kinda startling, but no one would mistake a 6-foot cornsnake for a copperhead.)

I love rat snakes. One of my friends has been breeding them for a number of years, as well as corn snakes and king snakes. They all really have some amazing color variations, from pure white to black to purplish to blue to yellow to orange to striped and everything inbetween.

If they did not eat rodents, I would definately have a few, but even though I understand that snakes have to eat rodents, I can't bring myself to feed them.

[Flyingcursor]

Missy - I thought you worked at the Folgers place?



Did anyone find a queen snake? Because if you get chomped by a queen snake you've had it.

[missy]

Fly - it's "Snacks (Pringles) and Beverage (Folgers and Millstone)"

Used to be "Foods" - but we sold Duncan Hines, Jif and Crisco.



Missy

[Martin Milner]

Kellogs Corn Snakes.



Nah, can't see it catching on somehow.

[Jack]

If anybody did want to buy a corn snake, I'd give this advice:

Do not buy from a pet store. Not only are snakes in pet stores often over-priced, they are often carelessly inbred and diseased (mites are almost to be expected on pet store reptiles, ugh). It's better to find a good breeder and have the snake shipped if it's far away than it is to go next door and buy a pet store snake.

It's against the rules to mail snakes in the US postal system, so you have to label them as lizards but it is perfectly safe to do. I have a friend in Arizona who breeds snakes and ships them this way and has never lost one.

[jsluder]

So, what was a cornsnake doing in a wheat cereal?

Amaizeing, isn't it?

These jokes are getting a little corny.

Aw shucks. There's definitely a kernel of truth in that observation.

[jsluder]

Kellogs Corn Snakes.

[Nanohedron]

Amaizeing, isn't it?

These jokes are getting a little corny.

Aw shucks. There's definitely a kernel of truth in that observation.

I don't know hominy more of these I can take.

[Jerry Freeman]

Well, I got my wish, more or less.

This morning I was out at the wooded end of our yard, looked down, and there was one of these, about 18 inches long:



I picked him up and visited with him awhile and then watched him slide off. It's amazing how snakes move.

That's not a picture of the actual snake, just one about the same size (the one that visited me was a little bigger, actually) with very similar markings.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[Nanohedron]

And what does Ralph #X have to say about this conflict of interest?