Baby Snake Visit

We had some excitement last night. It was close to midnight and I was about to go to my computer to write when I noticed both of our cat kids hovering over something on the plush living room carpet. This made me go over and look and my fierce huntress of a daughter, Gracie Belle, had captured a tiny baby snake and brought it up from the catio to the living room. I thanked her and proceeded to catch the perfectly healthy baby snake the exact same way I catch cockroaches and other insects (with a small/medium Tupperware and flat thin cardboard.) Baby snake willingly went unto the cardboard with the Tupperware dome above her. I could see her little face at this point looking at me with curiosity. She didn’t seem traumatised by her original capture via cat huntress.

My husband came upstairs to help me get the door to release her and we were trying to identify what type she was, my thought being that if poisonous I would release her a bit further in the backyard. The whole time she was looking at us, and I couldn’t help but smile at her cuteness and innocence-she was just a baby. We took a bit too long deciding and I dropped my firm hold on the Tupperware- and she stuck out her tiny face like “hi!” It startled me and I was afraid to hurt her by pushing it back down so she got back out - I may have let out a tiny shriek from surprise lol- and at that point we were at the door anyway so we opened it for her and she let herself out very swiftly. 

​I think she was a little brown garden snake but wasn’t able to get a photo in the moment. She was quite adorable and Gracie was incredibly proud of herself. This was a first (&hopefully last.) She and Merlin are indoor kitties and she normally walks around with ribbons in her mouth and pretends they are snakes. She’ll walk around and meow like this. So this time it was for real. And all’s well that ends well everyone including baby snake was unharmed and happy after.🌟