Just can't get it right sometimes

[The Snark]

Spent a good 10 minutes trying to wrangle a little baby king cobra off a bridge and away from the road. It finally went down a drain hole, falling into the canal near some fishing people who promptly killed it. Ruined my bike ride. Maybe it would be alive if I had just left it alone.
Somebody write something cheerful on some post, please?

 

[RegallRegius]

Your helping the snake shows that you have more worth in your little finger than those people have in their entire bodies.

Be proud that you helped it... it is not your fault that it died at the hands of ignorant, fearful people.

 

[Najakeeper]

Sad story but good intentions as always.

 

[Python]

I think it's ironic that most people would have looked at the snake and thought that IT was the dangerous one. It's sad when people are so afraid and uneducated that they feel like everything they don't understand must die but I'm afraid that's the world we live in. I feel your pain though, those are the kind of people I'm surrounded by. Don't let it get you down, there is no reason to feel bad for being a good person. If you were as close to human habitation as it sounds, the outcome would have probably been the same no matter what. Sometimes, I'm ashamed of my species.

 

[The Snark]

In my harassing in with the hook I was wondering. It was a light tan about a foot long. It put up with a lot of getting hooked and shoved about. Just as I noticed it had light colored circumferential stripes it finally had enough, raised up and expanded it's hood. It was so darned cute! It's strike zone wouldn't have been more than 6 inches. I got it flipped into the water and it swam to the opposite bank and was making it's way up it. The fishermen saw it and grabbed rocks. I yelled mai mai mai (no) about 20 times but was ignored. Sigh.
I really need a way to catch these tykes and bag them quickly and safely. Just the hook doesn't cut it with the small ones.

 

[Python]

For really small ones welder's gloves might work. Always a chance that the cuff doesn't extend far enough though. I myself carry a bag with me everywhere I go as well as a hook and catch cups of various sizes. That probably doesn't work for everybody but I have a bag filled with the essentials. I applaud you for doing the right thing but sometimes the whole world is against you no matter what. I just caught a king snake the other day and as I was releasing it, one of my co-workers adult daughter saw it and started screaming that it was the devil and I shouldn't touch it. I told her that the snake wasn't the devil, I didn't tell her I was looking at the devil while releasing the snake although I wanted to very badly. My sympathies friend. Maybe we can't change the world, or even educate it, but we can do our own part to try and help it.

 

[Twentytwenty]

Its not cuddly and furry. It has teeth. It must have been made by the devil to destroy children and eat the elderly.

 

[The Snark]

Got welders gloves/ Will start carrying them. Not all that sanguine about dexterously wrangling something as lithe and athletic as a Hannah while wearing them but worth a try.

Its not cuddly and furry. It has teeth. It must have been made by the devil to destroy children and eat the elderly.

We could rephrase that. It must have been made by the all cuddly and furry elderly to eat children and the devil. Makes just as much sense, yes?

 

[Python]

I know what you mean about trying to handle them with gloves. It's the only solution that readily came to mind aside from a catch bag (pretty much a long open bag on a stick) but the portability thing makes that a little bit awkward. You might be able to make a smaller, more portable version though. Run a length of cable through the seam of a pillow case and connect the ends together to form a loop. The right kind of cable will keep the bag open but be flexible enough the fold down and stow in a pack or something. It might be too awkward to use though. Just a thought