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The Christmas Snake (you just never know...)
The Clinician's Brief ^ | 12/20/2010 | Dr. Doug Mader

Posted on 12/21/2010 2:00:21 PM PST by devane617

I suspect that not many people can claim that they get a Christmas card from a snake every year. I never would have thought it would happen either.

It began with a phone call one Christmas Eve morning. Because of the nature of my veterinary practice, a call from a frantic snake owner was not uncommon. You see, my hospital in Southern California specialized in “non-traditional” pets, the kind that slither, creep, fly, scratch, hoot, burrow or any combination thereof.

So, when the caller claimed that her snake could not crawl normally it did not strike me as odd. The fact that she was calling on the morning before Christmas was not surprising either - pets never schedule a convenient time to get sick. But, what was a bit unusual, was that she was calling from Texas.

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1 posted on 12/21/2010 2:00:24 PM PST by devane617
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To: devane617

Good story.


2 posted on 12/21/2010 2:06:41 PM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: devane617

Nice


3 posted on 12/21/2010 2:08:52 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 698 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: devane617

Awwww. I’m glad he was able to save the snake!


4 posted on 12/21/2010 2:10:07 PM PST by Tax-chick (Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.)
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To: devane617
Nice Christmas story. Weird, but nice anyway.

(Can't understand why anyone would want a snake for a pet.)

5 posted on 12/21/2010 2:12:56 PM PST by DallasDeb
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To: DallasDeb

They do not bark at night or chew up your slippers.


6 posted on 12/21/2010 2:18:07 PM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: DallasDeb

I had a rattlesnake once.....tasted like chicken.


7 posted on 12/21/2010 2:18:13 PM PST by Wingy (Don't blame me. I voted for the chick. I hope to do so again.)
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An 18’ constrictor? I’d worry it’d constrict my daughter!


8 posted on 12/21/2010 2:23:19 PM PST by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: RoadGumby

But they love you so much they can squeeze you to death!


9 posted on 12/21/2010 2:24:48 PM PST by DallasDeb
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To: DallasDeb

LOL,
None of my 6 would / can do that


10 posted on 12/21/2010 2:29:35 PM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: DallasDeb
(Can't understand why anyone would want a snake for a pet.)

I can see why a trucker might. No one is going to stay in that cab one second after they discover it.

11 posted on 12/21/2010 2:35:04 PM PST by magslinger (Samuel Colt, feminist. Making women equal to men for over 150 years.)
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That’s Texas people for you!

Greatest people in the world.


12 posted on 12/21/2010 2:46:46 PM PST by BenKenobi (Rush speaks! I hear, I obey)
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