Python Eats Cat: new law proposed

I am particularly prejudiced against venomous snakes.

Well for goodness sakes. In your ear? In the early morning?

Which proves the world really is divided into two....the cat lovers and the others.

I would think that NOT being bitten by a highly venomous snake, which was clearly peacefully asleep and minding its own business, when rudely attacked by a human, would decrease one's fear of snakes, rather than increase it!!!


All predators are horrid from the point of the view of the prey...and being presented with rats and mice by one of my cats, who killed a great many of them, was awful from my point of view...but likely helpful from the point of view of the ecology and my neighbours.

I had one cat who used to place the odd mouse, quite unharmed, in my ear at 3.00 am and wait to be congratulated.

I had a shoebox in my chest of drawers, with soft nesting, and I used to put the mice in there while they were still frozen in fear, let them settle during the night, and release them again some distance away in the morning.


I have more fear of spiders, having had two serious infections from their bites....but they do what they do, and it is ridiculous to bear wild animals ill will for their normal behaviour. I just don't want them in my home!