Joke's on you, neither of these are from day three! Ha!
Day three was back in the forest and ended with a retread of part of the first trail. Also a snake! Not the first snake of the weekend, but the most quiescent and observable. Loki discovered it for us, although its debatable whether he ever actually saw it. He was running down the trail ahead of us, and all of a sudden he yelped and did the doggie fear-leap. Our first thought was- fuck, he's been bitten by a snake. Visions of carrying his poisoned ass down the trail and struggling to find a vet in rural WV and a leg dissolved in a gooey mess of pre-digestive snake venom... So we run over there and he seems fine, tail wagging, no more scaredies. I start looking around for a snake, and lo and behold I see one coiled up under a bush. But here's the thing- its really, really sluggish. Like poke-ably, in need of solar-recharge sluggish. Clearly, it didn't go biting anything. In fact, Darco thinks the snake was just coincidentally there and Loki somehow scared himself. I don't buy it- that dog rarely yelps and that's a pretty big coincidence! Pretty sure Lokes caught his first snake sighting in his peripheral and jumped a mile. Anyway, here's the reptile in question:
The snake pic same out really nice!
ReplyDeleteOf course I like the jumping one too!