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SleepyDragon
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02 Dec 2007, 1:01 am
My cat has just made her first snake kill of the season. (That we know about so far.)
A baby king-brown.
Time to trim my furry girl's fingernails! She doesn't bag quite so much prey then.
02 Dec 2007, 1:42 am
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02 Dec 2007, 1:58 am
I should correct myself here: Stripes didn't kill the snake. I had to do it - again. Blech. Yes, they are quite venomous, but this one was (a) only the diameter of a pencil, (b) missing most of its tail, and nearly all its urge to fight, and (c) it had likely expended all its venom already, trying to escape from Stripes.
Now we'll have to do visual inspections before we let puddy in the house! She once brought a red-bellied black snake right into our dining room, and it was way bigger and feistier than today's victim. No way I'm letting that happen again.
02 Dec 2007, 2:03 am
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02 Dec 2007, 2:12 am
She could end up spending most of this summer under house arrest. Not just because of the predation thing, but also because I don't want her to get another tick bite (the first one nearly killed her, and a second one definitely would), and also if we have to evacuate for another bushfire, she's easier to catch when she's inside the house. 
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02 Dec 2007, 8:18 am
Yeah and then maybe the snake could fight my brother 
*wins*
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02 Dec 2007, 8:46 am
She won't *kill* the damn things, that's the problem. Ever heard the expression "madder than a cut snake"? I guess she thinks she's doing us a favour: "Look, this one's still got some fight in it, we can all have a play with it."
What's worse, snake and lizard meat don't sit well in her stomach, and eventually she barfs it all up on the carpet. 
02 Dec 2007, 9:38 am
SNOW!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
that is all 
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