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Shamarie's Cow Snake in The Holler: The rest of the story

The snake was bigger than previously reported - longer than most Presidents are/were tall, and even longer than Hack Rowe, the Great ACHS Basketball Center is in height. And the snake was up to no good, Shamarie Claiborne maintains, in the rest of the story

By Ed Waggener

Since the posting of the appearance of the five foot cow snake which came visiting to the Claiborne place in The Holler, a number of things have come to pass:

  • Fair weather friends (who needs them?) have sworn off further visits to The Holler, Shamarie Claiborne says.
  • New evidence has come to light that the snake was actually over 6 ft long. To put that in common understanding, that's longer than all U.S. Presidents are or were tall than Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Chester A. Arther, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. (See Wikipedia, Heights of Presidents of the United States The evidence is right here: The Big Cow Snake in The Holler was over 6 feet long!
  • It was up to no good. It is now believed that the snake was not patrolling to kill vermin, but was intent on stealing the eggs from a cute little bird's nest, making Shamarie Claiborne wonder whether the reprieve Kevin Claiborne gave to the cowsnake, when the rest of the family wanted to kill it, was justified.
At ColumbiaMagazine.com, we side with leniency for the snake. We do wish it weren't their nature to kill songbirds and eat their unborn young. But then, housecats do that. It's their nature.

Our big worry is that it could get in the spokes of cyclist's bike and cause a bad spill or worse.

And ever since Red Nixon's identical twin brother, Blackie Nixon, got a Smart car, we had worried about him traveling through the Everglades, running over a Burmese Python, angrying it up, and provoking it into quiling around the Smart car and squeezing it like a beer can. We hope someone will warn him not to go south of Inroad in that thing..

Shamarie's pet cow snake is not that kind of threat, but if it keeps growing, who knows? Maybe Blackie should be warned against trips through The Holler in his Smart car, too.

For the sake of the squeamish, who don't have naturalist Kay Haupt's appreciation for the beauty of snakes, we've posted the photograph's of Shamarie's Huge Cowsnake in The Holler at the end of the day's albums - you have to calculate the numbers to avoid the snake pictures or click quickly by when you see them - but we will post the little bird, whose nest was almost robbed, on the front of CM, not to win sympathy for one side or the other in this battle of nature, but to draw attention to some awesome creatures around us. Or, just scroll down the page to see the photos now, if you're not a fraidy cat. -EW

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The Big Cow Snake in The Holler was over 6 feet long!



2010-04-26 - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. The Holler, Old Clearsprings RD, Ozark, KY
Purely in the interest of applied varmintology, Shamarie Claiborne, a bona fide, sworn snake hater, made photographic proof of the big cow snake she photographed the snakes recently shed skin beside a steel rule stretched to 72". It shows at least 6 ft of snakeskin. "It has surely grown since then," she says. And, despite cow snake defenders claims that the snake should be protected because it eats mice, she suspects it was up to no good that day. On the other hand, even its evil intent is justifiable, snake defenders say, because the cow snake was just trying to make a living that day. And by the way, stretched out to its full length, the old snake skin would be longer than the legendary Adair County High School State Tournament Center Haskin Rowe was tall - 6'1".
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Birds of Kentucky: Eggs of little bird escaped disaster



2010-04-26 - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. The Holler, Old Clearsprings RD, Ozark, KY
This little bird may not know the drama it escaped over the weekend. Shamarie Claiborne thinks the six foot snake she photographed may have been trying to make its way to the bird's nest for a feast of eggs. She thinks the nest is safe, but has stepped up the snake patrol to make sure the snake gets nowhere near the cute bird, whose ID is needed..
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