The suburban snake charmer: Grandmother fills her home with 45 slithering reptiles

ေၿမြေတြကိုခ်စ္တဲ ့ဘြားဘြား....
The suburban snake charmer: Grandmother fills her home with 45 slithering reptiles

တစ္ၿခားအဘြားေတြနဲ ့မတူ...ေခတ္မွီေၿမြမင္းသမီးေလလား....

 Unconventional: the snakes lives with Sue in her east London home

 

စပါးႀကီးေၿမြၿဖဴႀကီးနဲ ့....

                           

အင္း ....အသဲယားစရာ...

Quite a handful: Sue Coleman's snakes are not quite as cuddly as the average pet

သာမာန္လူတစ္ေယာက္အတြက္ေတာ ့ေၿမြတစ္ေကာင္ဆုိလွ်င္ပင္ေတာ္ေတာ္ေႀကာက္ဖုိ ့ေကာင္းေန
မွာအမွန္ၿဖစ္ေပမယ္ ့ အဂၤလန္နုိင္ငံက ဘြားဘြား Sue Coleman အတြက္ကေတာ ့ေၿမြေပါင္း ၄၅
ေကာင္ႏွင္ ့အတူေနရသည္ကုိပင္သူမအေနၿဖင္ ့အားမရနုိင္ေသးေပ...

သူမႏွင္ ့သက္တူရြယ္တူ အၿခားအသက္ ၆၀ ေက်ာ္အမ်ဴိးသမီးႀကီးမ်ားကဲ ့သုိ ့ဇာပန္းထုိးၿခင္း၊စုေပါင္း
မဲလက္မွတ္၀ယ္ယူၿပီးကံထူးသူေရြးသည္ ့ ဘင္ဂုိ  ကစားၿခင္း စသည္တုိ ့ကုိ၀ါသနာမပါပဲ ထူးထူးၿခား
ၿခားထိတ္လန္ ့စရာတြားတြားသတၱ၀ါေၿမြမ်ားႏွင္ ့သာခင္မင္တြယ္တာၿပီးေနထုိင္ခဲ ့ေလသည္....
Sue  သုိ ့မဟုတ္  Snakey Sue ေၿမြမင္းသမီး Sue  လုိ ့အမည္တြင္တဲ ့လန္ဒန္ၿမဳိ  ့အေရွ ့ပုိင္း ၿဖစ္တဲ ့
Leytonstone အရပ္မွာေနတဲ ့သူ  ့မရဲ ့အိမ္မွာသူမနဲ ့အတူေၿမြေတြလြတ္လပ္စြာသြားလာေနထုိင္ေန
ႀကတာကုိအိမ္နီးနားခ်င္းမ်ားကစိတ္၀င္တစား၊၀မ္းပန္းတသာနဲ ့ႀကည္ ့ရွဳေနနုိင္ႀကပါတယ္...

”  လူေတြကသူတုိ ့ကုိေသေသခ်ာခ်ာဂရုတစုိက္ၿပဳစုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ထိန္းသိမ္းနုိင္ယင္ေၿမြေတြဟာ
လည္းခ်စ္စရာအိမ္ေမြးတိရိစာၦန္ေတြမုိ ့ကြ်န္မေတာ ့သူတုိ ့ကုိခ်စ္ပါတယ္....”  လုိ ့သူမကဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္..
လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့၁၇ ႏွစ္ေလာက္ကတည္းကစၿပီးတိတ္ဆိတ္ေအးခ်မ္းတဲ ့အရပ္မွာရွိတဲ ့သူမရဲ ့ေနအိမ္ကုိ
ေၿမြေတြကုိသူတုိ ့ဆီေရာက္ၿပီးမွဘယ္လုိကုိင္တြယ္ၿပဳစုထိန္းသိမ္းရမယ္ဆုိတာမသိတဲ ့ပုိင္ရွင္ေတြရဲ ့
ေၿမြေတြကုိကယ္တင္ေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္လာခဲ ့တာမုိ ့အခုဆုိသူမရဲ ့ေနအိမ္ဟာေၿမြမ်ဴိးစံုတဲ ့တိရိစာၦန္ရံုက
ေလးတစ္ခုၿဖစ္လုိ ့ေနပါေတာ ့တယ္...

သူမစတင္ကယ္ဆယ္ေမြးၿမဴခဲ ့တာက corn snake ေၿမြမ်ဴိးတစ္စံုကစခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...အဲဒါကလြန္
ခဲ ့တဲ ့၁၂ ႏွစ္ေလာက္ကၿဖစ္ပါတယ္....ၿပီးေတာ ့ဆက္ကာဆက္ကာေမြးလာခဲ ့တာဆယ္ေကာင္ကေန
အေကာင္နွစ္ဆယ္ စသည္ၿဖင္ ့ေနာက္ေတာ ့မ်ားလာလုိက္တာသတိေတာင္မထားနုိင္ေတာ ့ပါဘူးတဲ ့...
အခုေတာ ့ေၿမြေတြနဲ ့ေနရတာသေဘာက်ႏွစ္ၿခဳိက္လုိ ့ေနာက္ထပ္ေတာင္ထပ္ၿပီးေမြးၿမဴခ်င္ပါေသးသ
တဲ ့....

သူမရဲ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးထပ္တုိးလာတဲ ့အေဖာ္ကေတာ ့ Ra  အမည္ရတဲ ့အလ်ား ၁၀ ေပရွိ စပါးႀကီးေၿမြ
ၿဖဴႀကီးၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
အဲဒီေၿမြႀကီးေရာက္လာေတာ ့အိမ္မွာေနရာနည္းနည္းေတာ ့က်ပ္သြားပါတယ္လုိ ့သူမကဆုိပါတယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေၿမြေတြကုိေကြ်းေမြးရတဲ ့ႀကြက္ေတြအတြက္စားရိတ္ကလည္းမနည္းလွပါဘူး...ေၿမြေတြ
ေနတဲ ့မွန္ပံုးေတြကုိမီးေခ်ာင္းထြန္းေပးရတဲ ့လွ်ပ္စစ္မီတာစားရိတ္ကလည္းႀကီးမားပါတယ္လုိ ့သူမ
ကထပ္ေၿပာၿပပါတယ္...

အခုေတာ ့သူမေမြးထားတဲ ့ေၿမြေတြနဲ ့လည္းတြဲဖက္ၿပီး belly dancing လုိ ့ေခၚတဲ ့မလံု ့တလံု၀တ္
ၿပီးခါး၊ရင္၊တင္ေတြကိုလွဳပ္ခါယမ္းကၿပရတဲ ့အကမ်ဴိးပါ၀င္တဲ ့ေဖ်ာ္ေၿဖမွဳမ်ဴိးေတြလည္းၿပဳလုပ္ၿပီး၀င္
ေငြရွာေနပါတယ္တဲ ့....
လူအမ်ားစုအတြက္ေၿမြေတြဟာေက်ာခ်မ္းစရာၿဖစ္တာကုိသေဘာေပါက္ေပမယ္ ့သူမကေတာ ့ေၿမြ
ေတြကုိေႀကာက္ရြံ ့ၿခင္းမွကင္းေ၀းေစဖုိ ့လူအမ်ားကုိကူညီခ်င္ခ်င္တဲ ့စိတ္အားထက္သန္ေနပါတယ္
တဲ ့ဗ်ာ...

လူအမ်ဴိးမ်ဴိး...စရုိက္အေထြေထြေပါ ့ခင္ဗ်ာ....
မဟုတ္ေပဘူးလား....


မူရင္းကဒီလုိပါ...

One snake would be too much for most people, but for Sue Coleman, even 45 are not enough.

Unlike other ladies her age, the 60-year-old grandmother is not interested in bingo or knitting, preferring to spend quality time with her slithery friends.

Sue, AKA Snakey Sue, and her snakes enjoy pottering around at her house together, much to the amusement of neighbours in Leytonstone, east London.

"I love them, they make such good pets, as long as people can care for them properly," she said.

Over the past 17 years, Sue has turned her home in a quiet residential street into a living zoo, with pythons, hognose snakes, corn snakes and barley snakes, which she often rescues from people who don't know how to care for them.

She said: "It started with a couple of corn snakes I brought 12 years ago.

"I went to find out more about them and became fascinated by snakes. Before I know it I had ten, then twenty, and it just carried on."

The snake addict admits she still wants more to add to her collection.

Her most recent acquisition is a 10-foot Albino Python named Ra and Sue says the only thing that will slow her down is a lack of space.

But she spends a fortune each week on dead mice to feed her massive brood.

"My electricity bills are huge because of all the lighting used for their tanks," she added.

Sue even works with her snakes, dancing with them as part of her belly dancing entertainment act.
Although she understands snakes make most people shudder, she keen to help people conquer their fears.