Can fully back up Barman here (despite cries of disbelief) in that there were bits (some large and some small) of hedgepig (thought I was the only one who said that
) in the pool and have been picking quills out of the liner today
We have three cats and one dog at TLHOTP ? all adopted orphans from over the past few years.
Cat 1 name = Stinky
Cat 2 name = Piggy
Cat 3 name = Tigger
Dog 1 name = Skeelos
Tigger (cat 3) ? gave me something close to heart failure recently when Barman was reclining in his nursey nursey hotel by bringing me in a present when I was talking to our daughter on the telephone late one evening last week.
The present (not noticed immediately) was a snake which he began gaily flinging around the kitchen???.. Once cat was caught and placed in safe room I then took fork and plate (as one does) along with pink pedal bin liner??.tipped snake onto plate with fork and popped in PPBL and tied (tightly) ? placed snake in PPBL in utility room and locked door.
Thought more about it and then placed PPBL in Tupperware box and sealed lid ? then returned PPBL in TWB back in utility room and locked door.
Thought some more about it and then placed iron on top of TWB containing PPBL and snake and (again obviously) locked the door.
Thought NO MORE about it until late the following afternoon when happened to be going to the vets to collect the dog (who?s got a bad ear at the moment thanks for asking) and thought it would be a good idea to take the TWB with PPBL and snake to the vet so he could identify it.
Happened on the way out to bump into a friend who said ?oh what have you got there? so explained and he then said ?oh can I have a look because I know most of the snake types here and I like them? ? oh okay says I.
Give him the TWB with PPBL and snake and he opens it up and GUESS WHAT ? the snake lives
Friend then agreed to free snake far away from TLHOTP but also confirmed that it was a coin snake and not poisonous --- oh that makes it all better !!