...so the other day, the cat and the dog are out by the driveway, and I'm hearing this "activity" out there... and the cat has an almost 3 foot even gray snake cornered. Pretty soon the snake wrangles under the jeep and disappears.
The cat and the dog give up after 1/2 hour, but I'm still standing there trying to figure out what to do. I usually coax animals out with tuna fish or doggie biskits but that's not gonna work.
So my wife sez to open the hood. And there it is on top of the radiator, you might say "blending in". I kind of drop the hood and then think, well, why don't I start the engine, and the thing'll get too hot and maybe come out. (the engine was cold)
So I start it up. It idles for a three or four minutes or so, and now it's starting to get suspenseful. Do I peek under the hood just to "check"? Then, just like in an old roadrunner cartoon, we hear a THWACK THWACK THWACK and the head comes flying out underneath and then the end of the tail comes out underneath and then... silence.
So we wait a minute and the fact that it's gotta be dead sinks in, so I turn it off and...open the hood. And there wrapped around the fan blade mechanism - almost in a knot - is the rest of the snake, and I see that there is a certain amount of snake guts splayed under the hood.
Eventually I worked the pieces out with a stick and hosed off everything (it needed it anyway...) and that was that. Yikes !
C.P.