Tangled Up In Blog

Snakes in a Classroom

Last week Andy took his kids to the pet store near their school to get some animals for the class. They got a couple of snakes, fish, and two hamsters. This past weekend there was a long weekend because of Columbus Day so on Sunday I asked Andy if he had left enough food for the animals. Of course he was like, oh yeah yeah they're fine. So when he got back to school on Tuesday both of the hamsters were dead. (There is some suspicion that this was due to to poisonous shavings, not starvation) Andy told me this on Tuesday night, but what he did not tell me was that there was only one snake left in the cage. So, they thought that one of the snakes had eaten the other snake because they were out of food. Plus, he said it looked a little puffy, like it had just eaten something big.
The snake that was still in the cage had been purchased by one of the students so he kept teasing Andy about how his snake ate Andy's snake. So, yesterday a group of ninth grade girls came into Andy's classroom during one of his free periods to see the animals. They looked at the snake for a while and as they were leaving one of them said "that thing up on the bookshelf looks like a snake too. is that a fake snake?" and the rest of them were like, yeah that does look like a snake...So Andy walks over...and it was the other snake. It had somehow gotten out of the cage and had just been hanging around in the classroom for two days.
I think he got pretty lucky that a group of kids found it and not the principal.

posted by carolyn @ 8:20 AM