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FUN -N- GAMES
HOW TO WRANGLE A PYTHON
WORDS Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts – The Python Wrangler
*Disclaimer: We do not encourage anyone to approach wild _____________ or attempt to wrangle them unless you (noun)
have a valid license for _____________ or _____________. Let’s say you’re out on a walk at _____________ and you spot a long
(verb) (verb) (place in Polk County)
_____________ slithering into the bushes. The first thing you’re going to want to do is to get out your trusty _____________ to
find out what kind of snake you’re dealing with. Does it have _____________ markings? Maybe it has a _____________ on its
tail? Is it making a _____________ sound? It’s important to know which snake will kill you and which will simply _____________.
If the snake has a yellow _____________ around its _____________ – STAY AWAY! We aren’t out here trying to wrangle any
_____________, am I right? Pythons are what we’re after. They’re the big problem around here. The _____________ Python
is an invasive species in Florida. They can grow as big around as a _____________. You’ll know it when you see it, trust me.
So, you’ve established it’s a _____________. Now what? I don’t advise you to do anything but call my snake hotline at 1-800
_____________, that’s 1-800 _____________. But to give you a taste of another day in the office for me, I’ll tell you how I would
_____________ it when I arrived on the scene. First, I’d say, “Well, well, well. If it isn’t _____________. Bet you didn’t expect
_____________ to show up in your neck of the woods again?” I do that to calm the snake and let it know what to expect.
Then I’d go straight for the _____________! We’d _____________ for a few minutes until the snake got _____________. But what if
she’s psyching me out? Next thing I know, the snake has a _____________. And I’m like, “Where’d you get a _____________?”
And the snake’s like, “Don’t worry about it. I’m a thneaky little thnake.” But while it was distracted, I’d grab for my secret
weapon, a hot pink _____________ with a detailed _____________ at the end. Remember, we aren’t trying to hurt the snake. I
want to get it into the back of my _____________ so that we can get it off the streets. Once I’ve got its head a safe distance
from my _____________, and I’ve got a good hold around its neck, I can get my trusty assistant _____________ to help me by
_____________ a _____________. Now I can bag it up and put it into the Snake Mobile. Plenty of folks ask me, “Jake, where do
you take the snakes once you’ve _____________ them?” I take them to the Fort Meade Snake Pit, where they can mingle,
