My Private Wobegon

stories from home

One day, while I was walking with my Mom and my baby brother, I found a green snake, and I took it home. I named her Girl Scout, because she was green like a Girl Scout uniform.

I needed a place to keep her, so I used a glass terrarium that I already had. I had gotten the terrarium from the Sandhills Area Land Trust yard sale. I had my worm snake in the terrarium when I put Girl Scout into the terrarium, which I cleaned before I put my snakes in. Dad and I got some twigs and branches to put in the terrarium, so Girl Scout could have something to slither and climb on.

I had to put a screen over the top, because I didn't have a top and Girl Scout was long enough to get out. My mom and I used duct tape to hold down the screen.

But that very night Girl Scout tried to escape. Then the next morning I saw my snake and shouted, "Mom, Dad there is a major problemo."

Girl Scout had gotten stuck on the duct tape, and Mom and Dad came running. She didn't like being curled up in a ball with duct tape. She looked like a green pretzel, and she was stressed out.

Mom and Dad got some scissors and cut some of the tape off. Dad called a veterinarian. While I was at school, Mom and Dad got the rest of the duct tape off with olive oil. The next day we let her go.