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| Here is the plan ya'll: we warm up and then bust out en masse all over this kids house capiche? |
I have written about how my dad was always trying to factory fish
whenever he got the chance well it runs in the blood. When Justin and
I would go out to catch tadpoles or snakes we would not just catch a
few we would try and catch them all. We would get nets and buckets
and go put in a hard day of extracting tadpoles and froglets from
their home and putting them in buckets and aquariums to live until
they became frogs or were neglected and died in the sun. We would
have thousands in a bucket and they would start to eat each other
when the food ran out. One time in the early spring we found a
hibernating ball of about 30 garter snakes and caught them all and
put them in the tadpole execution chamber aquarium. You may not think
that a bunch of legless animals would be that hard to keep in a box
with sheer walls and is made of glass but after they warmed up and
got moving all but a few had slipped their bonds and were roaming
free, in Justin's house. We had been playing video games and we went
to check on them and there were only a few left in the aquarium but
they were working out an escape plan and biding their time. We went
and took a screen out of a window and put it over the top of the
aquarium which we moved outside, which really is a better place for
an aquarium full of snakes anyway. Justin's parents were not home so
we frantically got to work rounding up snakes from his basement. We
were only able to find and catch about ten which left us about 15
short. I knew snakes liked warm places so I set up a trap that
consisted of a desk lamp and a box they could hide under and we left
the area for an hour when we got back there were about eight snakes
in the box and we figured that was good enough to keep us out of deep
trouble and didn't bother to mention our scaly Steve McQueens to
anyone. We released to other snakes back into the wild and counted
ourselves lucky. They probably did too.
