Memorial Services held today for our good pet, Jake, The Snake

It was a sad day for a 7 year old boy who loved his pet snake. I thought I would jump for joy the day the snake was no longer a member of our family, but the look on my sons face when he came and told me his snake died was a heart breaker.

Jake, The Snake (named after his owner, of course) was a gift from Jake's Uncle Josh (who found him behind a dishwasher in one of his rentals) became the source of great excitement and adventure at the Hill household.

Note: If you have a sensitive stomach you might not want to read any more of this post. (Marcie)

Jake, The Snake was a Ball Python. His favorite food was a live mouse once a week. He loved entertaining our guests with his quick bite and deadly squeeze. But his most favorite thing to do was curl up around his best friends neck, Jake, Dallas and even little Katie.
He had an untimely death when he became too consitpated. We knew someting was wrong when he wouldn't eat the mouse in his house. The mouse lived with him for a month until he passed on. I wish I would have taken a picture of the mouse sitting on top of the snake. The morning he looked really sick Mike became an expert in Snake consitpation, but it was too late. Even after all the warm baths and following the instructions of what to do with a consitpated snake.

Jake got to take the snake into to his 2nd grade class for show-and-tell. The children all got to watch it eat a mouse. Every educational. I asked Jake when he got home from school what his class thought about his snake. He said, "Great, but one girl cried."

On a brighter note, Mike suggested to Jake that he put the snake's body in the field behind our house and we would watch to see if the sparrow hawk that hangs out around our house would come eat it!!! Thus the circle of life continues.