OK, this isn't about Real Estate. But, I'll bet a few of you have worked with a few snakes in your day!
My better half is a Veterinarian, Dr. Kathleen (Katy) Meyer, or more specifically an Emergency Veterinarian. She owns her own clinic, Tampa Bay Veterinary Emergency Clinic, which is open 7 days a week; nights, weekends and holidays. She has about 40 different regular Veterinarians that refer their emergency cases to her clinic when they are not open.
She has been in practice for nearly 30 years and has seen all types of cases, but is wise enough to say she has not seen it all. Besides the normal dogs and cats, she says she will treat anything that a client can fit through her front (or side) door. Over the years she has treated an assortment of mammals, reptiles, avians (birds) and others to include wildlife beyond the normal pets. A dolphin which was brought in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, the home of "Winter, soon to be a major motion picture", various raptors (eagles, hawks, ospreys..etc), turtles and almost anything you could imagine from the wild. But, normally her patients are sick or injured.
Recently she was presented with a case that was quite unusual, a perfectly healthy and uninjured....''pygmy rattlesnake...''in a container marked:
The client did not have an animal who was injured by a snake bite and had not been bitten themselves, they had simply found this snake in their house and wanted the clinic to take it. While amused at the situation, the staff and Katy simply took the "new patient" and thanked the person who brought it in to the clinic.
Now a pygmy rattlesnake is generally under 2 feet long, but it's bite can be deadly under the correct circumstances; especially to small dogs, cats, and or children. So it is not something you might want to keep as a pet, snuggling is definitely out. Katy, being the practical sort, put the container in her car and on a long, unpopulated stretch of road on her way home, stopped and released the snake back into the wild. Case closed.
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