Farewell Chompers

Well, we finally did it. Chompers is gone.

It's been over a year since we first contemplated giving him away. We just kept putting it off and putting it off until whoosh! It's August. We got the thing with his mouth rot squared away and we figured out how to get him to quit refusing his food, so that was good. But we still weren't really doing all we could do to take the very best care of him.

The Husband and I would bring it up with each other every couple of weeks or so. "We need to post something on craigslist. We won't even bother to sell him, we'll just give him away." But nothing got done.

On Wednesday I buckled down and I posted something on freecycle.org. A lady came today to pick him up. She has four kids and three snakes at home, so she already knows how to take care of Chompers. She brought along her almost 12-year-old and I could tell by the way they held him that our pet was going to go to a good home.

I feel a little guilty that we had such a cool pet for so long but didn't do all that we could to enjoy him. Mostly, though, I feel relieved that I don't have to worry about taking care of a snake in addition to a toddler and a newborn.