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Beach Lover
This is an actual obituary in todays paper:
Lady Gray memorial today at Ruffner Mountain
[size=-1]The beloved 5-foot-long Lady Gray Rat Snake apparently died of old age and will be buried today at the Ruffner Mountain Nature Center.[/size]
[size=-1]The public is invited to the 11 a.m. memorial for Lady Gray, who attracted friends because of her friendly ways. It's not every snake that would obligingly flatten her head to look venomous and vibrate her tail to mimic a rattler, but never bite.[/size]
[size=-1]Nature Center director Kathy Stiles Freeland described Lady Gray as an ambassador for her species. The center has 24 animals in captivity as teaching tools.[/size]
[size=-1]Lady Gray was known simply as "Gray Rat" until the summer of 2003 when her sex was revealed and she laid 12 eggs. Another gray rat snake, since freed, evidently was her mate. Freeland said she got the idea for the burial after staff members joked about the snake's death. They they recalled stories about Lady Gray.[/size]
[size=-1]Most of the animals at Ruffner Mountain are injured and couldn't survive in the wild. Lady Gray came to Ruffner from the McWane Center in Birmingham, where she was known to reside as far back as 1991.[/size]
[size=-1]Lady Gray Rat Snake, 15, is believed to be survived by her three young, who reside somewhere on Ruffner Mountain.[/size]
Lady Gray memorial today at Ruffner Mountain
[size=-1]The beloved 5-foot-long Lady Gray Rat Snake apparently died of old age and will be buried today at the Ruffner Mountain Nature Center.[/size]
[size=-1]The public is invited to the 11 a.m. memorial for Lady Gray, who attracted friends because of her friendly ways. It's not every snake that would obligingly flatten her head to look venomous and vibrate her tail to mimic a rattler, but never bite.[/size]
[size=-1]Nature Center director Kathy Stiles Freeland described Lady Gray as an ambassador for her species. The center has 24 animals in captivity as teaching tools.[/size]
[size=-1]Lady Gray was known simply as "Gray Rat" until the summer of 2003 when her sex was revealed and she laid 12 eggs. Another gray rat snake, since freed, evidently was her mate. Freeland said she got the idea for the burial after staff members joked about the snake's death. They they recalled stories about Lady Gray.[/size]
[size=-1]Most of the animals at Ruffner Mountain are injured and couldn't survive in the wild. Lady Gray came to Ruffner from the McWane Center in Birmingham, where she was known to reside as far back as 1991.[/size]
[size=-1]Lady Gray Rat Snake, 15, is believed to be survived by her three young, who reside somewhere on Ruffner Mountain.[/size]
