This proves we *can* just get along!

[MorganGrayson]

Humans are seriously defective creatures. But if these two can hang out and be buddies...we've got no damned excuse for not doing the same.

Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo

TOKYO (AP) - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a 120 yard-long rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means "meal" in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.

Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan - despite her name.

"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."

The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.

But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.

[Evil Chris]

It's just a matter of time....

[Don Soporno]

oh yea, it will piss the snake off one day and BAM, NO SOUP FOR YOU!

[Panky]

One would think instinct would take over. The thing is, it's not like the snake is hungry. It's fed on a regular basis. Maybe the instinct to hunt is just dormant because the snake has no need to hunt?

[StaceyJo]

sweet, thats a nice relationship...

anything is possible!!!

[jade12]

Originally posted by Don Soporno
oh yea, it will piss the snake off one day and BAM, NO SOUP FOR YOU!

LMAO Don every time I hear that line it cracks me right up ..... a friend of mine used to work in a cheap ass hotel and once in a while I'd go and visit her anyway there was this guy that worked at the front desk, and all the staff, called him the desk nazi because he was a racist mofo and no matter how decent the person seemed to be wanting to rent a room he would ALWAYS turn them away...... NO ROOM FOR YOU! and seriously he had the pointy finger going, thick portugese accent and everything, it was freakin hilarious to watch! NO ROOM FOR YOU!! LOL


Morgan it is a cute picture, I used to have a hamster once his name was hammie LOL ;o)

[war_ner]

Originally posted by Evil Chris
It's just a matter of time....

You are right!!

Better if they take that hamster out of that cage befoe it's too late..

[MorganGrayson]

We recently lost, Randy, the "grand damme" of our cats, at the age of eighteen. She had a good long run, considering how sick she was as a tiny kitten when we took her in. She even did the "drop dead mice and birds" on the front mat as bribes to get into the family. (Actually, "cat experts" say cats do that to teach humans to hunt so that they won't starve, but who knows.)

But I digress.

I mentioned the "dead presents" to show that at one time in her life, Randy did hunt.

However, once she became an indoor house pet, she totally changed. She used to sleep on top of the guinea pig cage. I always thought it was for the company. Every once in a while, she'd reach down a very gentle paw and touch the guinea pig to make it move around. Sort of like "cat television."

One day, a much younger child of mine was playing with her hamster, and in a fit of irresponsibility, forgot to put the thing back in the cage. Therefore, I know the hamster was out for 14 hours. We finally found it, on the floor of the spare room in front of the couch, doing its morning ablutions, calmly washing it's tiny face. Stretched out on the couch above it, looking for all the world like an indulgent parent, was Randy, supervising the washing.

Jaws dropped among the humans...and one young girl got a very stern talking to.

Our other cat at the time, my beloved Sneakers, looked upon the rodents with nothing but disgust. You could almost see the big "yuck!" thought bubble over her head. Food came out of a bag or a can, certainly *not* a live little furry thing.

I've seen too many things on Animal Planet to question anything that happens in this world. It's as impossible to say "all animals will do this" as it is to say "all humans will do that."

I saw a film of a cat and his best buddy...a crow. The two would actually wrestle in the back yard, then eat out of the same dish.

[TheLegacy]

and they say politics makes strange bedfellows

[Funbrunette]

Originally posted by TheLegacy
and they say politics makes strange bedfellows

Well said babe!

[war_ner]

Hahaha, strange yet, it sounds cute..

[MindyBlingBucks]

That picture is the cutest thing ever!!

I've heard of animals that are supposed to be hunter-and-prey becoming friends before. That's kind of like the fox and the hound.