
NocturneJewel‘s 9 year-old Texas Rat Snake, Crescent.
All bunnied-up for the Easter.
Found this in my front garden in D8 yesterday. Yes, it’s a fully moulted snake skin…
They hate that.
Mary Street, Dublin, roughly 20 minutes ago.
Dave Kavanagh writes:
Just walking to work about 20 mins ago and seen a crowd gathering outside the Jervis St Shopping Centre entrance on Mary St. I looked into see what it was and there was a snake, just on the street…..sure why not. Im guessing something to do with the fire or whatever was going on.
Quite the day we’re having.
Earlier: Fire Above Jervis Centre
Meanwhile in Siberia, to mark the upcoming Chinese Year of the Snake, Yolba native Mikhail Bopposov sculpted this huge spitting cobra from 400kg of frozen cowshit. Last year he a made a dragon, previously he made a Russian tank. It’s not art, he maintains:
“I made it so the kids could play around and have some fun,”
Good times.
(Hat tip: Sheila Larkin)


The Edible Gummy Party Python: 12.2kgs, 2.14m and 36,720 calories of bowel-constricting goodness.
Available in Blue Raspberry/Green Apple and Red Cherry/Blue Raspberry flavour for $150 each. Currently sold out, though.
So, you know about the snake in the crate found at St James’ Gate?
You may serpenter ‘Tomorrow’s Headline Today’ below.
A prize for the most stout-standing punnage.
Lines close at 4.15pm
Our ambulance has gone to James’s Gate to collect a snake that arrived from Texas. JR was found in the crate with their delivery.
— Dublin SPCA (@DublinSPCA) August 29, 2012
Ew-ing.
More as we get it.



An Amelanistic Burmese Python cake made by North Star Cakes of Maidstone, Kent.