Hampster & Snake Are Best Friends

[matcom]

Hamster named Gohan, right, and snake Aochan live togther in a cardboard box at Mutsugoro Okoku zoo, outskirts of Tokyo, in this January 14, 2006 photo. Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 9 centimeter dwarf hamster; the other is a 120 centimeter-long (yard-long) ratsnake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster _ whose name means "meal" in Japanese _ to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice. But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since. (AP Photo/Mutsugoro Okoku Zoo, Kyota Nomura)

[Crankie Avalon]

1. .

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/audio/player.phtml?clip_name=coexist

[swimboy]

2. Still . . .

this may not end well.

[pointblank]

9. First laugh out loud of the day!

You win! Thanks and congrats.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Friends don't let friends eat friends

[democracyindanger]

4. Gohan

That's hilarious.

[azmouse]

5. Now that's just gonna give me nightmares!!

:scared: <:3)~~~~

[RebelOne]

6. Snake is probably not hungry.

Give him time. He'll make a meal out of the hamster. Trust me, I know. I had two boa constrictors.

[ET Awful]

7. Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood.

She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake."

I don't see this "friendship" ending well.

[barb162]

8. I am thinking ther same thing

I wouldn't want to be that hamster

[BikeWriter]

11. Yes, when he gets hungry, he'll eat it.

[Hugin]

10. The snake is just fattening him up...

Really.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. snakey was lonely...when snakey is hungry

life for the hampster will change

[undeterred]

13. Maybe the hamster will eat the snake-

it could happen...

[RebelOne]

14. Yes, it could happen.

I had two boa constrictors and I would feed them rats. If the snakes weren't hungry, they ignored the rats. I had to take the rats out of the cage because they would start to nibble on the snakes.

[MissMillie]

15. Do you have a link to this?

I'd like to share it w/ some folks.

[matcom]

16. here ya go

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/01/18/hamster_snake_best_friends_at_tokyo_zoo/

[MissMillie]

17. many thanks! (n/t)

.

[matcom]

18. kick for Underpants

:hide:

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Kicking...because...it seems like the right thing to do....

:rofl:

[jpgray]

20. Great, now we have four of these on the first page of the Lounge

For doing that, I refer you to this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4613416

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. That's it...I'm ignoring you...or alerting on you...or alerting you that

I've ignored and alerted on you...or whatever it is I am allowed by the rules to do here...:P

[jpgray]

23. The dark side of K&R--we could just post I&A for ignored and alerted

You and I could be on the forefront of DU fashion. :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Hey! you've got something there...

and we could post it...and snicker quietly as people tried to figure out what we meant. I like it! :hi:

[southlandshari]

21. Absolutely. It would have been improper not to kick it again....

:rofl:



:D