On the way out to lunch with my parents, we saw a neighbour's cat do battle with a baby cobra on the side of one of the main roads at our residential area. Well, Rizal says it was a baby cobra. And it was more like the cat was having a field day bullying the baby cobra. We actually turned the car around and stopped by the side of the road to capture the moment on the digicam.
The cat toyed with the snake in the grass for long enough and had driven it from the cool of the grass and shade of the trees onto the smoking hot tarmac road. The poor thing must have felt the heat because it looked like it was trying to keep its body off the road by flipping and moving in short jerky movements. It tried to get back up from the road onto the grass but the cat was there and it wasn't going to let the snake go back to the shade without giving it a run for its money.
We didn't stay long to watch or to record; we were running late. We also didn't tell the guards there was a fight going on. The way things were going, the snake was probably going to lose anyway. Although Rizal did mention that if it was a baby, the parents and siblings were probably around. Oops. As an afterthought, I was glad we have screens on all our windows and doors.
When we got home, neither animal was in sight. "The cat probably killed the snake and took it home as a present," Rizal concluded.
I hope we don't bump into the parents or siblings of said snake.
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