[Skybird]

I wonder if maybe you have had a cold day and the reptile thus was lethargic, maybe even enjoyed to get warmed by the cat. But on the other hand I read that brown snakes are very agile and quick to bite. I also read that the teeth are short anbd not much poison gets injected per bite - and that this would relativise the lethality of the poison. If kitty got bitten, it maybe just was a too small dosis. I read that adults usually do not get endagred, sometimes even do not realise any symptoms, but that human childrenren are at risk to their lifes if getting bitten. I felt a bit confused this morning after having red quite some very different stuff about brown snakes.

Two years ago, in hot summer, I found a blindworm on trhe way, asphalt, and it got grilled by the heat, frantically tryinmg to get off the pan, it took it up, and it immediately lied still, enjoying the "cold" of my hands.

Many more years ago, I also had found a blindworm in the garden, on a relatively cold summer morning. I concluded that it was somekind of paralysed by the temperature. When I laid my hand open and flat beside it, after some seconds it slid onto my handpalm, and rested there, closing its eyes. I had the impression that it enjoyed my hand's warmth very much. A very beautiful creature, coloured like living red-bronze.

And when I was a child, I once had fallen asleep on the meadow were my grandparents camped, when I woke up, there was a grass snake/ring snake (Ringelnatter) close to me, like flowing silver with the typical yellow crescent behind the eyes. It moved slowly and inspected me, and I still remember it because due to the slow movement of the snake I was not afraid, but fascinated. Since then I love "Ringelnattern".

Many snakes look beautiful in colours, and elegant by mvement. Just that the faster they move the more it scares us. Same with insects and spiders. If it sits still on our handplam, we can bear it, even marvel at it. If it starts moving fast and hectic, we feel alarmed.