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Snake vs. Cat (Funny)

Aozora

Aozora

Blue Sky Reptiles
My 40g female Kenyan Sand Boa, Andouille, is all blue, and I took her out of her tank to check on her. She had not yet shed, so I was holding her for a moment while my roommate did tank maintenance and re-moistened the paper towels in her damp hide.

While I did so, my 9-lb kitty Jasmine came over to say hi. The first 3" of Andouille's body were dangling off the edge of my hand, and Jasmine came over to get a good sniff. I will let her smell the snakes, but I am very careful and watchful to avoid any injuries. I didn't expect what happened next.

Andouille jerked. Jasmine hissed and ran away. We didn't know what had happened. We checked Andouille, but she was fine. No injuries, no odd behaviors. She resumed limp-noodling off the edge of my hand.

We checked Jasmine. Her little pink nose had been bloodied. We figured it out: Andouille bit Jasmine and drove her off! A 40g snake bested a 9lb cat. A 40g snake who had never attempted to bite, ever.

Moral of the story: Don't mess with a blue KSB. She may be tiny, but she will own you.
 
Funny story. I let my dogs have limited interactions with my snakes. They like to sniff them, but usually I won't let the snake's face go near the dog, just in case. My cat has zero interest in them. But then again, she's 15 years old and around 20 pounds.
 
Oh goodness, that's kind of funny!
The kitten always wants to investigate Stig, he lets her sniff him for a few seconds before he looks at me like "Don't make me bite her." Granted, she doesn't get to go near his head, I'm afraid she'll attack if he licks at her. I don't let her meet him often though.
 
That is funny :)
My dog leaves the snakes alone, he just bugs me when I'm handling them because he doesn't like it when I'm not giving him attention. My cat, on the other hand, believes that the snakes are play things and if he knows that I have one out he wants to investigate. I have never let him close enough to them, but I can see in his eyes he just wants to swat at it, just a little. When I feed them he tries to get close to where they are and one time, while they were in their feeding boxes and I was cleaning cages, my cat got into one of the vivs (lid was off, cause again I was cleaning). I'm still not sure how me managed given the location of the vivs! I think he was as surprised as I was.
I feel kind of bad for your kitty, but I'm sure that she learned a lesson about the snake :)
 
My snake always try to "cuddle" with my German Shepherd. I'm sure it's the heat factor, but it's funny to us that she doesn't think that perhaps this large animal should be avoided!!!!
 
I'll sound like a killjoy, but having one of your pets injured by another doesn't raise a chuckle here.
 
I think it surprised Jasmine more than anything, and maybe took a layer or two of skin off her nose. I can't even see where she was nipped, less than 24 hours later. When it just happened, we checked both of them pretty well--Andouille is not missing any teeth, and after Jazz licked her nose the bit of blood was gone and didn't return. Kitty got coddled for the rest of the night to help her hurt pride.

We'd never had any of this happen before. Jasmine has tried to bat at the snakes, but we've cut that behavior off fast. I want her to get used to them, and the snakes to get used to her. All of them will have to deal with each other for their entire natural lives--we will not get rid of any of our snakes for the cat, and vice versa.

I think all of us learned a lesson. Except Andouille. She's unrepentant and still blue.
 
My cat is 5 years old and been raised around Snakes she walks up and sniffs them the only one that she can't be around is my 10 ft burm he thinks she's lunch
 
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