Today was a hard day for Mim and I. As of 11:00 AM this morning we said our good bye’s to one of our kids. Goliath… It was for the best.. We keep telling ourselves this… Now don’t get all bent out of shape… Mim and I don’t have any “Children” of the Human variety. Our kids are our animals.

We are getting ready to make another move into a nice home with my nephew and his fiancee. We are purchasing the home, not renting it. We are good animal parents. But Goliath was in need of a better home. We could not provide for him the way he needed to be taken care of. Now just in case you do not know. Goliath is a 10’ Burmese Python. He is one of the calmest snakes I have ever had the pleasure to know. We have been Goliath’s parents for the last 2 years. But as I said we are not the best snake parents. We are mainly dog and cat people. But we do rescue any animal we think is in need or in danger.

Now Goliath did not have the best of times growing up. He was rescued from an abandoned apartment, a tank with no heat, no water, no food, nothing. When he was rescued he was about 3 years old, 3 feet long and about as thin as a garden hose. He has at least 4 partial sheds on him and the caps were still on his eyes. He was miserable and in danger of dying. He was rescued by 2 friends of ours. They had Goliath for about 2 years and he grew to about 9 foot and finally became the snake he was meant to be. But the friends already had several large snakes. So they knew we rescued animals and asked us if we could take Goliath.

Well Mim and I are not ones to turn away an animal in need. So we said OK. But we both knew the day would come that we would have to find Goliath a home where he would be loved and taken care of the way he should be. We did our best for him. He really helped me get over my fear of snakes. Trust me I was scared shit-less of large snakes. Especially Burmese. They have a bad reputation for being cranky and downright nasty. But Goliath was the complete opposite of everything I have ever read on his breed. He loved music. He was one of the most social snakes I have known. He was always out and paying attention to everything that was going on in our house. His cage was in our living room. So he was more or less involved with all of our daily lives.

Now you have to understand. We have 3 cats and 3 very large dogs as well… We had 5 cats up until recently. 2 of the oldest passed away just a few months ago. Peyote who was Mim’s companion for the last 21 years and Hecate. So that left us with 3 cats..

We loved Goliath but we knew he could have a better life with parents that were snake people. So Mim went on a hunt for the right people to take Goliath. And we finally found a couple in Kansas that love and rescue reptiles. The husband of the couple goes around to school’s and shows the snakes. And with Goliath’s easy going nature he is going to be a hit with the kids.

So today was a very sad day for Mim and I. We finally had to say good bye…

We will miss you Goliath…

But we will Never forget you…

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