The DZER's place is kinda in crappy condition right now — DZER has a lot of cleaning up and rearranging to do, mostly because he's a lazy fuck, so normally the DZER doesn't have too many people over, let alone late-night callers.
Tonight was different.
The DZER came home from a fun night out with some friends. The DZER's outside light was non-functional, which was a bitch. The bulb is fried and must be replaced.
The DZER came in, put down his keys and stuff, grabbed a drink from the fridge and started toward his bedroom when the DZER noticed a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eye.
There she was. Long and slender and lean. Big, gleaming eyes. Nice mixture of brown and golden.
So lovely but ... so cold. It was like she was ready to strike out at the DZER.
Yep, one of Guam's infamous brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) had someway made its way into the DZER's apartment.
Despite the reputation that Guam is overrun by the brown tree snake, this is the first one I've personally seen in the wild for years and years — and the last one was at the house of one of my friends who lives near some deep jungle.
The brown tree snake, which is both nocturnal and arboreal, does have a nasty reputation, and deservedly so. Because of this invasive species, believed to have come to Guam aboard military or supply ships from Indonesia or the South Pacific, the island's native bird population was decimated. Nine of 12 species were made extinct. A couple others are endangered. It also has killed off half of the native lizard population.The little bugger is currently sitting in a plastic tub out in my living room. My landlord has a cage up at his house in northern Guam, and I think he has a snake he caught a while back in it. Now he will have a pair, at least.
Random Guam Fact Of The Day:
• The brown tree snake is a constrictor, but it does have a mildly venomous bite, though it has to gnaw through the skin to impart the venom. The snake can grow to 10 feet in length, with some longer specimens having been reported.
18 comments:
just wanted to see if someone would call me on it ... went WAY overboard with it this time ... LOL
hmm ... what would make you happy to be here? ;)
did the dzer scream like a little girl, upon seeing the big, bad snake??
terry: nope ... the DZER calmly went to the kitchen, got a plastic container, came back to the snake, picked it up behind the head, and placed it into the container. then I poked some holes into the lid.
I'm half native, darlin' ... I don't bug out easily LOL
SHITFUCKDAMN!!!!!
First the creepy-ass eye thing and now a SNAKE!!!!!!
Why did it have to be snakes?
You need to WARN PEOPLE!!!!
madame x: hmmm ... maybe you should flag my blog to blogger? LOL for eyeballs and freaky snakes and such?
*spank*
What a gift! It would be said that if the snake wandered into my place, "Oh man, did you ever pick the wrong fucking house." I'd keep it! What a beautiful creature.
Until today, I had half a mind to pack up all my belongings and my kids and come shack up with you.
But you have snakes.
Noooo thank you.
(You do know I'm just kidding, right? I'll be on the 3pm flight.)
How in the world did it get in? That's weird!
When I was growing up we adopted a 9 1/2 foot boa constricter. Her name was Squeak. I just found some pictures of my stepbrother with his python. I'll have to post them.
What are you feeding him?
damn. i was so hoping for a high-pitched girlie scream.
EEK!
It's kinda cute, but i don't like that it might bite (with it's mild venom).
You're so sweet to be saving it Dzer, I'm sure a lot of people would have killed it. (personally I would have thrown it out the door - sent it back home)
hedonist: LOL ... if you hurry, you can come over and claim him.
AAG: nice try, but we both know that there's no 3 p.m. flight!! (I'll pick you up at the airport at 6 a.m.)
grainne: not like it was a rattler or ... hmm ... fricking 6-foot gator! LOL
signgurl: I have these slotted windows — one in the bathroom, one in the kitchen — and I leave them cracked a bit to circulate air. And not feeding him/her/it ... just gonna give it away. LOL
terry: aww ... so sorry to disappoint LOL
chrissie: yay, yay, yay, yay ... and SUPER YAY!! Awww ... I should have stayed awake when I woke up the first time this morning, seeing as you were in such a happy and mushy mood, mushpot ... *smooches* ... LOL
shay: LOL ... cute and snake usually don't go together ... and I would have loved to have seen you wrangle with the snake ;)
Wow, how cool is that? I love snakes, especially ones that aren't deadly, lol. But really, very cool~
chrissie: :P
kathi: it was pretty neat ... I did have to deal with rattlers a few time in Texas ... pretty different story there LOL
God, I love snakes.
They're damn sexy creatures.
All that slithering...and they got that whole tongue thing goin' on...
I am so jealous of your late night caller.
I want to find snakes in my apartment.
Sometimes, I find a spider.
That's kind of coolish.
But, not as cool as a snake.
strumpet: what kinda snake are you hoping to find? perhaps the dreaded trouser snake? heh
spiders and geckos are my usual visitors ... snake was definitely unexpected ;)
Dzer, I would much rather have been confronted by a one eyed trouser snake. LOL. I couldn't resist that one. ;)
suze: I bet you're an expert handler of the one-eyed trouser snake ... heh ... you can make them dance to the music, I bet ... ;)
Nice one!
Glad it didn't creep up during Steak and BJ... That would certainly leave a lot of things hanging!
Nice little adventure!
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