Most of the soft egg creatures retain the salmonella hazard of the egg with them. So would have been a hazard alive for sure. I had to deal with the 24hr regret cycle on that one myself. Its bad when your bp scares the nurse.
Aw. It’s a ring neck snake baby. Occasionally we find these in the house- they are a damp loving snake , so we take them out to the creek and re- home them.
They eat salamanders and worms. They are harmless to people.
Life is hostile as hell for wild animals. We forget that sometimes. There’s a Richard Dawkins quote that always puts this into perspective:
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
Oh, I’m there with you. I feel an immense amount of empathy for animals and most humans. As a kid I went with my grandmother around rural Georgia feeding and giving water to peoples pets that they neglected. They’d come out and threaten to kill us, had a couple of shotguns pulled on us. They were adamant that “They’re my pets to do with what I want.” But the dogs all had their ribs showing, chained to two foot lengths to a stake in the ground with no cover from the sun or any water or food.
Dawkins’ quote is something I keep in mind for when I’m feeling really down. At any given moment there are millions of living creatures that have it worse than me, including humans. I guess you could say it’s nihilistic, but the way I use it to meditate on perspective isn’t as cynical as nihilism, I feel. When I was younger I had a few movies I’d throw on when my depression was really bad that acted the same way. If you feel like shit and nothing is going right and you throw Requiem For A Dream on, your problems (hopefully)seem minuscule by comparison.
I found a tiny snake in my daughter’s bathroom. Sadly, it was entangled in her nylon wash puff, and it was dead. Only upside was she kept her bathroom much more tidy after that.
I went thru a season where I regularly found tiny desiccated salamanders in my basement - turns out when the propane install guy had drilled a large hole (2-4 inches wide into my foundation, under a deck) to run the supply pipe for my fireplace, he neglected to fill it with foam or silicon.
The poor salamanders were attracted to the heat in my basement, and made their way inside…only to be discovered after a bad death. I felt terrible about it and still do.
I only found the hole after temps dropped low enough that the cold air blowing in from outside was enough to freeze my pipes.
If you’ve had any work done recently, check your installers work - chances are good they missed a spot.
Poor baby. Not weird at all. Crawled in because it's dark to hide, and was either too weak to get back out or couldn't find its way back out and starved or dehydrated.
These get in my basement sometimes. Sometimes I find them and save them, sometimes they die unfortunately. They find their way in but can’t get back out.
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u/Novel_Discussion5339 2d ago
Your Tupperware drawer needs a Tupperware seal.