It is rare that I take the snakes out but they need some sun for their health too. It's one of the few new warm days that we're having here in the deep south and let the snakers out. Pancho (the one that is brown) can be put on a tree and just stays there.
Goldie, on the other hand, has searched out and found every dirty place that she can possibly go. And she's seven feet long, so it's going to be a lot of bath time to get her clean again. But she doesn't sit still - she has a taste for life and has to explore every corner of the patio.
Pancho has decided to stay in the same tree and he's got the branch bending downward while he hangs on with his tail.
When snakes try new things like bridging a gap or climbing higher, they wrap their tail tightly around something solid. That way, if they fall, they will just swing like a rope that is tied around something. These animals are made of solid muscle.
Many ask how these guys can climb a rope or stay in a tree. They thread themselves around branches and keep half their weight on one side of the branch and half on the other side. d
Goldie started out in the same tree with Pancho but she found the one place I cannot sweep - between who very heavy pots in which the trees are planted. You can see her in the second photo heading for the floor drain. She is already very muddy.
Right after I took the last photo, I rinsed her off a bit and took this one.
Here is the rest of her body on her third lap around the floor plants.
While I was taking pictures of Goldie and washing her off a bit, the other one bridged a gap between the tree and the shelves of last year's baby plants.
Once Pancho starts moving, he gets on a mission to escape and search for someplace to hide out. Usually a place where I would have to take apart something to get him out.
I walked him around the house and then put him back in his cage with clean water. He like to watch me change his water while riding on my shoulders.
There is a drain that clogs is a few leaves cover the grate. I use some layers of plastic mesh to keep it from clogging every other rain. I also recoup soil from the plants on dry days. I can sweep up the dirt that would have gone down the drain. Golie, seems to like to be in the cool, wet dirt because she did not want me to pick her up. I had to wait for her to lose interest in the mud, then give her a proper bath.
They are both back from their safari for today. Back to the safety of their cage.
