Yeah, Right, Whatever

What does a rat snake eat? Rodents, right? Well... usually... then there's Aochan and Gohan.

A rodent-eating snake and a hamster have developed an unusual bond at a zoo in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.

Their relationship began in October last year, when zookeepers presented the hamster to the snake as a meal.

The rat snake, however, refused to eat the rodent. The two now share a cage, and the hamster sometimes falls asleep sitting on top of his natural foe.

"I have never seen anything like it," a zookeeper at the Mutsugoro Okoku zoo told the Associated Press News agency.

The hamster was initially offered to Aochan, the two-year-old rat snake, because it was refusing to eat frozen mice.

That's just not fair. I was snake-sitting once for a cute little Burmese python named Damien. She got out of her cage and snacked on my Siberian hamsters, and then set out after my beagle. It's just not fair.

They named the hamster Gohan... Japanese for "meal." Supposedly the two are getting along very well. One of these days, Aochan is going to get really hungry... say "buh-bye" to the cute little hamster.