Mom Finds Snake In Crib With Baby

[Sequoia]

A Long Island animal shelter is a temporary home for a 1-foot-long snake that a mother found coiled on her 7-month-old daughter's leg as the baby slept in a crib.

Cari Abatemarco of upstate Troy says she was visiting family in Brentwood last week when her baby's cries woke her one night. She tells Newsday that she found a snake wrapped around her daughter's leg.

Abatemarco says she lifted her daughter and the snake fell off. A relative removed the snake from the crib and placed it in a bucket until animal control officers arrived.

The reptile has been identified as a California king, a non-venomous snake that's not indigenous to the region.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/10/national/main4167836.shtml

[DS1]

1. Nobody puts baby with the boner!

oooooh

that snake

[redqueen]

2. Awww it only wanted to cuddle.

Poor snakey. :(

[leave iraq]

3. o m g

[NewJeffCT]

4. It's baby Hercules reborn

didn't he kill some snakes in his crib as a baby?

[Shell Beau]

5. I am not scared of snakes, but that may make me a little uneasy!

:o

[Mojambo]

6. Republicans trying to kiss babies. It must be election season. n/t

[Taverner]

7. Babies are warm

Snakes like warm things to cuddle next to on cold days

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. This must mightily piss off Samuel L. Jackson.

[Bake]

11. Get that motha-effin' snake outta my motha-effin' CRIB!!!!

:rofl:

Bake

[applegrove]

9. I saw a snake on the side of the road yesterday. A cat was playing with it gently. I decided

to leave them as they were. The snake looked like a garden snake so nothing to do but let it be wild.

[Carnea]

10. Animal Shelter..... She took it to the Animal Shelter????

:wtf:

[Mutley]

12. I know, why didn't she just put it outside?

:shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. As lars said, it's not indigenous.

[Lars39]

13. She called animal control...they took it to the shelter.

Probably because it was non-indigenous to the area.

[realisticphish]

22. yeah

there are a lot of exotics at most animal shelters :shrug:

[BlueIris]

14. So THAT's where Karl Rove was hiding this whole time!

And I doubt he wanted to bite that baby...he was just snuggling it for a while, to keep warm.

[NewEnglandGirl]

15. Ewwwwwww?

I wouldn't hurt a snake but I wouldn't want one in any beds.
Last year near where I live a bat was found in a baby's crib underneath the blanket. The baby had to have rabies shots. Even though she was not bitten.

[XemaSab]

17. Bats are no good

I mean, they're good flying around in the wild, but they can carry rabies and they can bite you without your knowing about it. :scared:

[Book Lover]

16. Litte Herkales!

Uh-oh. That means Hera hates the kid. You're screwn, folks!

[Orrex]

20. And I'd hate to be that kid's music teacher

//esoteric geek-trivia off

[Book Lover]

21. And let's face it,

any wife of his is going to end up badly...

//greek geek trivia going strong :-)

[latebloomer]

19. When my mother was a baby during the Depression

they lived in some hovel of a NY apt and one day my grandfather found a RAT in her crib!

They moved out the next day.

[realisticphish]

23. well

at least it wasn't a constrictor or anything. They can bite (boy, can they) but a one foot snake isn't going to do a ton of damage, even to a baby. Honestly, the worst that could happen is salmonella.

But still, i totally understand being concerned; i sure as hell wouldn't want a snake on my baby, regardless of the species

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. "She's doing as well as she can be"

Says the mother on Good Morning America... :eyes:

Overreact much? There is nothing wrong with the baby.