It was a dark night.....
By Loverbear
@Loverbear (4918)
United States
February 7, 2013 4:34pm CST
It was a dark night last night and I was exhausted from doing cleaning and also making the chili that Bill and I had for dinner last night. I also cleaned the dishes too as I hate getting up in the morning to a sink full of dirty dishes. I fell into bed and nearly instantly was asleep.
I woke a couple of hours later to the sounds of Khuay yowling like crazy, it was the "I caught something" yowl so I promptly hopped out of bed to see what he got...especially since the yowl was so different from his usual yowls. My feet hit the floor and I promptly looked down, there is NOTHING like stepping on mouse guts in your bare feet especially in the middle of the night! No mouse guts, but Khuay was straddling something long, narrow, and squiggly! [b][i]OH MY GOSH!!! A SNAKE!!!!! YIKES, WHO DO I CALL FOR HELP AGAIN????? OH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, BILL!!![/B][/I] I started to turn to reach for the phone and my snake suddenly moved....heart attack city anyone????? No time to call Bill, I have to deal with this one myself!
Of course at that time of night, and after being roused from a very deep sleep, the brain box isn't working well at all. I grabbed for the nearest weapon, which was a shoe. I started beating on the offending critter like crazy, with no consideration that it might be a rattle snake....I'm pounding like crazy and finally I reach over and flick on the over head light...everything is still a blur but I could see that the "snake" was still moving! More pounding with my shoe..."HOW DARE YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE!!!! YOU BROKE THE RULES OF SAFETY, IF YOU DON'T COME IN THE HOUSE I LET YOU LIVE, BUT YOU COME IN THE HOUSE AND THERE ARE NO HOLES BARRED IN THIS FIGHT!!!!" Pretty soon I am winded from beating on the snake and I figure it's either hurting too badly to do anything or I succeeded in eliminating the offending creature, so I went to the head board and got my glasses and removed the blur from everything in the room, including the snake.
At that point, Khuay was blocking my view of the offending creature, he was busily swatting at it, being the big protector. I took the two steps to where the snake was laying, moved Khuay and had the surprise of my life!!! I had succeeded in....of all things....killing......a belt that had come with a pair of pants I had just bought! I almost peed myself from laughing at what the whole sight must have looked like if it had been video taped! I have to admit that I have a very strange life and it's even stranger with the current cats that are sharing my life.
What is funny to me is that little boy of mine could get the belt down and drag it into the middle of the room and make it appear to be a snake to his unsuspecting owner. I bet that cat had a really good laugh at my expense! 
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@pals101 (2010)
• Philippines
8 Feb 13
You made my day my friend.. That's quite an amazing story. I pity for the belt, it may have been hurt pretty badly..
Never mess with a newly wake up person or you'll end up beaten.. This is just a joke my friend. I am happy your family is still safe, that it was not a real snake. Still you are very lucky..
Happy Mylotting..and have a nice day ahead..
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
7 Feb 13
He's quite the cat! I used to have belt that looked rather snake like as a toy for the cats. But they all soon outgrew it. then one day I came into the kitchen and the cats (only had 6 at the time) were circling Doctor and he was standing over the belt, guarding it. then I looked more carefully and realized it was a snake. I reached into this seething pack of cats and extracted the poor baby grass snake and rescued it.
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
8 Feb 13
At least I'm not the only one who had a snake in the kitchen!!! We had a 9 foot rattlesnake decide to come in the house! My Mom found it laying full length from edge of the livingroom to the end of the counters. She thought it was rubber and we had one heck of a fight about my putting a snake in the kitchen as a joke. I finally went in the house and the snake was coiled up in the corner of the kitchen...my tiny little Siamese, KoKo was attacking it and was trying to kill it to protect her home. KoKo couldn't see because of a skull fracture, she had a heart problem from the abuse she had at the hands of another. And to top things off she had just had kittens which were weaned and then she had to get spayed because as soon as the kittens were weaned she went into heat. She was just bones with a bit of fur over them. I still don't know how she survived.
Anyhow I raced around from the entry way to the kitchen, out the door of the family room, outside the house and through the door to the patio and into the livingroom. I literally jumped over a couch into the kitchen and grabbed the cat! She jumped up so hard and so high that she hit me in the chin nearly knocking me out! But I managed to grab the cat and put her in my bedroom.
We went crazy trying to think of who could take care of the snake for us...and finally came up with Bill. His wife was still alive at the time and when I called her the first words were "Is it real?" then the next thing was "What kind is it?" She hollered out the window at Bill and I'll be darned if his first two sentences were "Is it real?" and "What kind is it?" I kidded him about it Monday night at dinner.
Of course the snake was removed from the house, but I giggled for weeks about what could have happened if Mom had figured that it was rubber and picked it up! The roof would have never been the same. I can hear the screams in my imagination and can see the snake hurtling through the air like a length of rope. Then the paramedics coming because Mom had a heart attack on the spot! Fortunately she had the presence of mind to NOT pick up the "rubber" snake!
You do much better than I do, I am now able to handle lizards, but haven't gotten to the stage that I can handle snakes...yet.
Then the paramedics coming because Mom had a heart attack on the spot! Fortunately she had the presence of mind to NOT pick up the "rubber" snake!
You do much better than I do, I am now able to handle lizards, but haven't gotten to the stage that I can handle snakes...yet.1 person likes this
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
8 Feb 13
wow, so Khuay was moving the "snake" belt to make it look like it was moving..what a sneaky cat he is..
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
9 Feb 13
You can't help but to love that little sneak! This morning he "got" his brother good... both Willy and Khuay love eating daddy long leg spiders and of course the spiders love nesting in my bathroom. This morning while I was on the "thinking chair" Khuay and Willy came in the bathroom and hopped in the bath tub. Khuay suddenly let loose with a funny purr yowl and started batting at something. Of course Willy had to check it out. Khuay "played" the part of having found a spider and then he jumped up on the vanity counter and watched his brother vainly search for the spider. From the smug look on Khuay's face I could tell that he had pulled a prank on his brother. I can't wait for Willy to do the inevitable pay back! It's going to be good!!!
@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
8 Feb 13
Cats definitely do have a sense of humor, and I'm certain that your crew likely had a few giggles about you facing off against the belt.
My two eldest cats are all about yowling when they catch their prey. Middle cat has been especially vigilant about catching the stuffed bunny recently. My male cat trades off on his catches; this evening, it was the green fuzzy ball that I just returned to the "kids" today a couple weeks after someone had seen fit to drop it into one of my baskets in the bedroom.
My two eldest cats are all about yowling when they catch their prey. Middle cat has been especially vigilant about catching the stuffed bunny recently. My male cat trades off on his catches; this evening, it was the green fuzzy ball that I just returned to the "kids" today a couple weeks after someone had seen fit to drop it into one of my baskets in the bedroom.