| | So our dog Luna finally earned her keep today. After a year of chewing furniture, slobbering, eating trash, peeing with excitement when we have guests, and waking us up every morning at 6:00 am sharp, Luna has finally proved that she is worth it.
Today Luna was playing out back on a beautiful sunny afternoon. Laura noticed that she was not playing alone. She looked closer and saw that she was toying with a poisonous mountain coral snake, a very common species here in Colombia. She yelled to me and I came running out with the machete, armed and dangerous.
Luna actually had the snake by the neck, and maybe she would have killed it herself. But as soon as I got a chance once Luna dropped it to the ground, I went at it with the machete.
Now I do not enjoy killing things. It really was a beautiful creature. But as a father of a very energetic two-year-old, I decided that having a poisonous snake in my backyard is just not acceptable.
This was not the first time we'd seen the snake. On three other occasions we had seen it in the backyard, but it had always eluded us by the time we got the machete out.
We will still need to keep our eyes open for other dangerous critters in our large backyard, but at least we know this one won't cause us any more problems.
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| | Posted 11/27/2006 9:30 PM - 57 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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