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Date: 24 November 2007 22:40:49
Pooka won't be coming to Alice with me. I don't think that whoever pays my airfares would pay for her to accompany me... or for accommodation that provides a dog-sitting service during the day. Unfortunately. But then I also don't want her eaten by snakes or giant scorpions or crocodiles or anything.
Speaking of which, Pooka and I came across a rather large snake on our walk last night. Well, I don't think Pooka saw it. But I certainly did. I have a serious snake phobia. Which is kind of odd as I've never come across a snake in the wild or had any adverse interactions with them. So I saw this thing across the path, about 15m in front of us that looked distinctly snakish... I turned on my heel and made Pooka walk very very quickly out of the bush! Luckily she was on her lead for once. Usually I let her off in the bush because she likes sniffing things and pottering around then running to catch up. But last night for some reason I decided to keep her on her lead. I would have possibly died if she'd come running back to me with a 2 metre long snake in her mouth. *SHUDDER*. I don't think it was a poisonous one - from where I was it looked like some sort of python with colourful bits on it.
And who knows, it may have just been something that looked like a snake. But I wasn't going close enough to find out.
In the meantime she can continue eating the hose. That will have to satisfy any desires she has for long things that lie on the ground.