I bought some oil from a door to door sales woman the other day. She was pretty cute and I just couldn’t say no and before you know it I have a case of oil for $79.95, which is pretty cheap considering the price of oil these days!

My son used some of the oil to oil up his python and now the damn snake is loose in the house. The snake is usually pretty slow, but with all that oil its super slippery and a lot faster.

The snake has been loose for 6 days and we keep hoping that the oil will wear / rubb off on the carpet or something. We have a baby in the house and a small beagle. We are concerned that if the python strikes one of them, they might get mad and hurt the python(scratch, bite, or squeeze the poor snake) because the baby and the beagle both have mean tempers.

Plus we have a chinchilla in the garage in a cage. We were somewhat concerned the python might hurt itself trying to get into the cage at the Chinchilla that is fat and happy from eating too many peanuts.

Not the First Lubed up Snake in the House!

This has happened before. A few years ago I was out of town and my wife bought snake oil from a cute sales man that time. The snake got lubed up and was loose for 2 weeks.

Eventually the snake got thirsty and we were able to trick the snake into our upright shower. Right after the slippery snake went in, we slid the sliding glass door shut. We hoped we could then reach in and pick up the snake in the shower, but it was still far too slippery. So we turned the cold water on. This served to rinse off the oil (we were also using soap ) and it also put the snake to sleep.

This time We have already tried opening the shower door again, but the snake won’t go anywhere near the shower. My son did see the snake drinking out of the toilet the other day, so it must be getting smarter. The guy at the pet store did warn us that Pythons were the smartest snakes in the world.

I was thinking about trying to use some sort of trap or lure. I read something on the internet about taking mice and tieing the mice together (tail to foot) in one long mouse rope. I read somewhere else that you can’t roll them up into mice sausages as that is a turn off for snakes-too close to canibalism. Or is it snakibalism?.

Anyway, you then take the mouse rope and leave one end just around the corner form the door with the rest of the rope trailing into the next room. The snake comes up on the end of the mouse rope and snatches up the mouse, but there is another mouse right after that and so the snake keeps eating the mouse rope and follows the rope all the way to the end, where you are ready to catch it!

Now the people on the internet didn’t have the slippery snake problem, just a normal not so slippery snake. So we are going to try and trick the snake into gobbling the mouse chain until the snake is entirely inside our linen closet. Once the python is in the linen closet we’ll slam the door shut and wait a couple weeks until all that oil has rubbed off. We will probably have to throw out the linens, but at least the snake will be safe from the baby and the beagle!

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