{"id":163,"date":"2011-05-18T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/2011\/05\/18\/snakes-in-the-chicken-hilton\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T16:49:00","slug":"snakes-in-the-chicken-hilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Snakes in the Chicken Hilton!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-WJRBJuxvs1c\/TdP3ntzmvWI\/AAAAAAAAAvg\/2OreySsOPvU\/s1600\/How+to+hold+a+snake.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" j8=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-WJRBJuxvs1c\/TdP3ntzmvWI\/AAAAAAAAAvg\/2OreySsOPvU\/s400\/How+to+hold+a+snake.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mr. Pat shows Michael the proper way to hold a snake<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I missed it this morning, but there was quite a ruckus.&nbsp; A snake was discovered in the Chicken Hilton when Lori and the team showed up.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Said snake was, ironically, snuggled up right against the cannister of snake repellent.<\/p>\n<p>It was a medium-size snake (although it grew impressively in the telling).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Lori sent for Mr. Pat, not a friend to snakes, and he showed Michael how to hold it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When I heard about all the excitement I hurried to the coops to see what was going on.&nbsp; Michael was so excited he could hardly speak.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff <\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FwYk761KNLo\/TdP39RS_3cI\/AAAAAAAAAvk\/KyKD_5LXHAs\/s1600\/Holding+a+snake.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" j8=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FwYk761KNLo\/TdP39RS_3cI\/AAAAAAAAAvk\/KyKD_5LXHAs\/s320\/Holding+a+snake.JPG\" width=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Michael bravely holds the perp<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\ufeff &#8220;I did it, Judy!&nbsp; I held the snake and it was still ALIVE!&#8221; he finally blurted out.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know if it was an egg snake or a chicken snake, and couldn&#8217;t figure out how it got inside, as it did seem far too large to get through the few warped areas where the nesting box doors were warped.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In any case, nobody was missing, and the snake had no tell-tale lumps.<\/p>\n<p>Just another adventurous day at Down Home Ranch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Pat shows Michael the proper way to hold a snake I missed it this morning, but there was quite a ruckus.&nbsp; A snake was discovered in the Chicken Hilton when Lori and the team showed up.&nbsp; Said snake was, ironically, snuggled up right against the cannister of snake repellent. It was a medium-size snake&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,13,130,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-down-home-ranch","category-rancher-life","category-snakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}