For those who asked about the #1 troll any snake has ever pulled on me, hereās a retelling of Primroseās Very Excellent Prank. Please be advised that this story includes graphic mentions of gore.
Primrose, seen above, was purchased at a Reptile Show and I honestly should have known better. She was the last of her clutch available so I couldnāt compare her to siblings and though the seller was reputable I knew for a fact that he was a seller, not a breeder, so he had no information on her background or health. This was back when I was still just getting into corn snakes and I should have known better, but I wanted an opal so bad and I let my desire cloud my judgement.
She looked healthy, ate well, and cleared her quarantine, but she just never grew.
To make sure she ate, I usually put her into a brown paper lunch bag with her thawed mousey-meal and left her overnight.
One morning, I was shocked to open the bag and find her with a huge raw gash across her back where the scales and skin had somehow been scraped away and the muscles were exposed. How she managed to get so severely hurt inside a brown paper bag with a f/t pink I simply could not fathom. She also had some minor scrapes on her sides with dried blood.
I panicked, but she didnāt seem to be in any discomfort, she had eaten her dinner, and there was not much else I could do for her at the time. I made plans take her to the vet the following day if she made it through the night, and I dabbed her injuries with some Betadyne and put her into an ICU box for observation.
The next morning, she seemed perfectly fine. Oddly fine for a snake that had sustained such a massive mystery injury. She was moving normally and not showing any signs of stress or pain whatsoever. I gave her a quick soak in some lukewarm water to take off the dried blood from her wounds and assess the damage⦠And the injuries floated right off.
The little brat had popped her mouse and then rolled in to accidentally create some of the best special effects makeup Iāve ever seen.
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