I assume you're refering to the mammal rather than the snake? Is this correct? If so, let it go pronto! You can't just catch live mammals and expect to tame them, most are bred for generations upon generations and are still nothing close to what I'd call "pets." WC mammals don't tame, time isn't even relevent. People just don't catch wild mammals and keep them. Very, very few mammals even make decent candidates for pets and those are domesticated.
Would still like to catch a baby though!
Darn, you beat me to the mole rat analogy! I uncovered a gopher a few weeks ago while flipping over sheets of plyboard looking for snakes, and my first thought was, "a hairy mole rat"! They've got those huge heads and ginormous incisors that look more like something out of a sci-fi film than a real rodent. This one was a sort of gold color, quite different from the usual wild rodent agouti gray-brown coloration, and it didn't see that afraid of me, but I guess it just wasn't sure how to cope with suddenly being exposed like that, so it just froze.
Not weird at all. Alberta is rat free. No wild rats, no domestic rats. It's a policy thats saves us millions and millions of dollars every year in agricultural losses that we don't incur not to mention eliminating a serious disease vector.