The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler

kaijutegu:

kaijutegu:

My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.

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Every time he sees it, he balls up.

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I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.

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However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!

He was nervous at first… 

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But it didn’t take him long to warm up to it.

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Pretty soon it became his best friend!

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There was nothing the new stapler couldn’t do!

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Including protecting him from the other stapler.

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The moral of the story?

My snake is a weirdo.

Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.

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He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!

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This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!

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Am I any closer to understanding my snake’s strange relationship with staplers?

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Absolutely not.