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Joshua Nearly's avatar

An emo sup warthog seems completely sensible, coming from you. Just sayin!

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Switter’s World's avatar

The road less traveled?

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Joshua Nearly's avatar

Yup… that’s exactly what Robert Frost was envisioning when he coined that term… I’m sure.

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Switter’s World's avatar

To boldly ride where no warthog has ridden before.

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Joshua Nearly's avatar

Make it so, Cap’n

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Kyle Hodges's avatar

👎🐍🫣

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Patris's avatar

Better than moose heads I think.

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Switter’s World's avatar

A moose head in our banquet hall? ? ? Be still, me beating heart.

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Patris's avatar

We just have a cranky cat there now…. Not as instructive as dead snakes but way more bitey

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Switter’s World's avatar

A banded cobra can also be bitey.

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Elizabeth Beggins's avatar

Ooh....you've just reminded me of a[nother] snake story of my own, big difference being lack of venom.

"Laid there stone cold dead" made me guffaw. These are not earthworms, sir. LOL!

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Switter’s World's avatar

Well? I’m waiting.

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Elizabeth Beggins's avatar

Might be a Chicken Scratch sometime. Sorry to dangle a snake and run. 😅

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

"...the snake made its last bad life choice." I'll say.

"...he had little tolerance for living cobras in his house..." Who wouldn't?

You have met some strange and wonderful people in your travels, Mr Switter. Enough to last a lifetime.

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Switter’s World's avatar

I’ve met a lot of strange and wonderful people on Substack, too.

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Monica P.'s avatar

Some say it’s so ugly it’s cute. Not so with warthogs. Only its own mother would say that.

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Monica P.'s avatar

Now I need to lookup a warthog to see if it’s so ugly it’s cute. I would not be going back to Charlie’s house. No, thank you.

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Switter’s World's avatar

They have a lot of endearing qualities. They tame easily. They must kneel to graze because of their fused neck, and when they run through the tall grass, their tails are like vertical antennas. They also enjoy digestive bisquits, or as they are called here, graham crackers.

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Monica P.'s avatar

So eating the digestive biscuit is like a laxative? I’m still not sold on them

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

And you certainly had a rousing conversation with Charlie that day. Meanwhile, if you're going to bring a warthog home, make sure to bring his girlfriend(s) too because a lonely wild transplant is truly pitiful. How would you feel, after all? ;)

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Switter’s World's avatar

Normal?

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

LOL

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