A few months after being here Nery came to the palapa with a baby boa constrictor. This four foot long baby was found in a field while he was bushhogging. At the time, we were having a little problem with the field mice so we opted to let the snake go in the yard as a solution. The mice disappeared, but so did Carol. We thought with a big snake like that we would be seeing her around. However it wasn't until last week that we saw her again, and the circumstances were a bit different. The crew was here helping us with a project when our rooster made an very starnge noice. Strange because he was being stranged. carol had wrapped around him, strangled him and was, no doubt looking forward to this large meal. But Nery grabbed her and afterwards she would not go back to the rooster. Two nights later, we sprang from the bed at the sound of the hens going berzerk. I shined down, and from the palapa we could see the snake wrapped around one of the hens. The others were watching, freaking out from their respective corners of the coop. We ran down and opened the door to let the girls out. Carol was startled and slithered to the top of the laying boxes. We watched and debated over killing her. Was she going to just waste another one of our birds?!? She is a beautiful snake! Large, as she had grwon a couple of feet in length and a few inches in diameter, but beautiful. We decided to chance it and left her. After a few hours we shone down and she was indeed eating Ms Bolin! it was really exciting. In the morning we went out and Carol was curled up in one of the laying boxes. With the bulge of Ms Bolin, she couldn't slither out the same hole she had slithered in. Eventually Nery came and took her to a field on the far end of the property. So long Carol and RIP Ms Bolin.
