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Where does a Lion go... anywhere he wants.

Meals on wheels.

Look, somebody had to say it. :)

If you hadn't, I woulda.

Phones interfering with experience? It's always a balance...

Another Squirrel King, pine pitch to blame...

It's not so much living next to nature, it's having nature move in with you...

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Stockport woman finds snake in oven

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An elderly woman had the "shock of her life" when she found a 3ft (90cm) snake in her oven.

The 82-year-old said she wondered if her "eyes were deceiving her" when she first saw the African brown snake, which is thought to be an escaped pet.

The reptile then disappeared, before turning up in the oven again two days later at the home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The RSPCA was called and rescued the snake on 26 September.

The woman, who was preparing to cook some chips, said: "When I opened the oven door and saw it, I got the shock of my life.

"I have recently had a cataract operation and was wondering if my eyes were deceiving me - but my husband saw it too."

The woman, who preferred not to be named, added: "I gave the RSPCA inspector a big hug and a cup of tea afterwards, but I went off the idea of oven chips so sent my husband to the fish and chip shop instead."

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Inspector Andy Harris said the species was not venomous and the serpent was likely to have escaped or been abandoned.

He said: "I managed to coax the snake from the oven. It must have squeezed through a wall cavity and there is a hole at the back of the oven so it was probably attracted by the warmth.

"It was lucky the couple didn't preheat the oven first."

African brown snakes are frequently found in homes in Africa and eat rodents, small lizards and birds.

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Oh, HELL no. If I opened my oven and found a big snake inside, :eek: I would slam the door, crank the oven to max, and cook that fucker to a crisp.

ACK!

I'd be more worried about the "hole at the back of the oven." Fire hazard, anyone?

Yeah, that doesn't seem right at all!

Snek door. Work like doggie door.

Yeah, fuck snek.

Never seen an oven door open that way.

A month or two ago I was watching on a webcam, the brown bears in Alaska catching Salmon.
I noticed one huge bear under some overhanging brush against the far bank just below the falls.
Come to find out his name is Otis and this year, for the third year in a row, he was voted via the internet the title of fattest bear.

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Cleaning out the storage rooms in the basement recently, and commenting to each other on the lack of 'mouse evidence' and our obvious success in persuading the mice to depart and live elsewhere in our woods ... we found two LONG (24-36") snakeskins shed against a back wall.

No wonder the mice have departed. The survivors, that is. :eek:

What survivors?:eyebrow: