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Quite an interesting experience

illicit:
Yeah

Around 2021 or so...

I was in a popular town in Osun state, the town started as a refugee camp maybe two hundred years ago

I was living in the house of the richest woman in that town, behind our fence is a mango forest where I spend sometimes in the afternoon after work or sometime in the weekend doing nothing, just roaming about the little forest, beating around the bush like an idiom...

One afternoon, I saw a mother "Mongoose" on a mango tree and it saw me too. It was carrying it's baby with its mouth, maybe it wanted to exclaim haaaa mogbe as it saw me, so it inadvertently dropped the kid it was holding with its mouth.

I had never seen a "Mongoose" before then, not even on NatGeo or any book.

I didn't even know what to call it. I knew it wasn't a rat and not a bird of course.

The mother "Mongoose" ran away.

The baby it dropped was still blind and couldn't move.

It looked like a big rat with a bushy tail.

I picked it and took it home but I didn't know what to feed it. I fed it milk I wasn't sure it was ingesting it.

It was much later I got to know I could have fed it cockroach, lizard or gecko or flesh, it was a carnivorous animal I noticed it had canines, sharp canines unlike rats.

After some days it began to think I was it's mum, I kept it in my bathroom but men, it stinks like crazy. It has a peculiar smell that it secrets.

The smell was something else, worse thing is the kind of noise it makes, it's a pitchy noise louder than a rat's, and longer, it's unbearable.

I had to ditch it ASAP.

I returned it to the same spot I found it in the forest after about a week.

When I was trying to confirm its identity, I posted it here on NL and some Nlanders reached out to me. Pocahontas and some guy who runs a kind of zoo or animal rescue reached out.
https://www.nairaland.com/6581669/abeg-which-animal

In fact he was gonna buy it, but that was the day after I had returned it to the bush...

Maybe it was worth a fortune, maybe not. 😆

But it could have been unlucky if it were some kids that found it. They would have probably kill it and not even eat it.
Or maybe a snake would have swallowed it but I learnt they feast on snakes too actually, but this was a baby, I doubt it could withstand a grown snake.

Nobody in that vicinity knew what it was. They had never seen it...

Something tells me there would be a Python in that bush and I always looked forward to encounter one but it never happened, maybe it would have been another story or i wouldn't live to tell the tale.
I was always in that bush like one hour everyday, doing nothing but roaming, with my phone in hand, my Bluetooth speaker, my mug of coffee or coke, or sometimes Alcohol and most importantly, his royal highness, some Blunts.

It was ways cool there, natural. There was a shallow stream too filled with crabs and at the bank were some palm trees usually with ripened fruit. Some days I would go with a cane, fishing line, hook and sinker and pretend to fish, but I never caught nothing 😊

Sometimes later, some cultists from OAU ife were caught in that same bush during an initiation ceremony, somebody snitched on them.
The police and local vigilante went after them and they left in a hurry leaving their kokoma (brew) behind...

Some of them were caught but that brew that they left behind, the vigilante carried it and brought it to my area, to my friends bakery, there were drugs and hard drugs too.
We used some of their drugs, cannabis, rohypnol, maybe molly ( I only do cannabis)

Nobody knew what was in that kokoma but it was mostly palm wine, schnapps and some of the tablets from the look of it.
Some of us drank it and the next day they said they had a hard time staying awake and conscious 🤐


I was not sure if those cult boys had not added their blood to that brew as it wasnt black or brown or red but then I wouldn't try it.

Anyway I doubt it because it seems the initiation had just started when the police arrived the scene and screamed hands up everybody...

If you move but they moved 😂

I like to reminisce and write whenever I am bored

Wow! That was a very nice story i enjoyed. I used to work with IHS towers of strength back in 2018 before corona came, and we passed thru Osun villages, omo come see mangoes farm and bushes. Very lovely sight to behold. I love adventures bruv.

Abeg always dey on guard ohh

Fiscus105:
You are free to write a book about it, Mr educated illiterate.

retardedd fellow 😭

😯

Xannadu:
Your story started with a pet mongoose and then sidetracked to a python and ended with cultists and their brew. At some point I was beginning to think of you were okay (no offence). I'm still trying to decide whether you're just a regular brilliant guy just reminiscing in no particular direction, or simply non compos mentis.

honestly! It's confusing

Xannadu:
Your story started with a pet mongoose and then sidetracked to a python and ended with cultists and their brew. At some point I was beginning to think of you were okay (no offence). I'm still trying to decide whether you're just a regular brilliant guy just reminiscing in no particular direction, or simply non compos mentis.

Have you read any Ernest Hemingway...?


The Mongoose is an eponymous character, I just named the story after it as a tribute

The setting never changed but the characters did...

TheWolfen:
honestly! It's confusing

I don't think so...

You tried. That's why they say knowledge is power. What you don't know is more than you.

Only if you had enough knowledge about Mangoose, you may have made a killing from the sales of it. Well, there's still another day.

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FILEBE:
With all the advertisements about staying away from drugs? We should better to not encourage people in these acts. If you are deep in the act, i am sure you know it's bad for you but don't try to paint it as cool. One reason why we are having this never ending war with Drugs is how our celebs and artistes glorify these things. Now, youths are into it , feeling fly and funky just as they see and hear from their Idolo

I don't do drugs, I just smoke cannabis and it helped cure insomnia

Sucre6:
What's the need posting a follow up thread when u have release the animal back to the wild, I was expecting to see progressive growth of the animal and how far big it had became.

😜😝😛

bestman09:


But he said that he returned it back to the bush after some days!

Na everybody dey read?

At least u no CHOW am

INCREDIBLEGUY:
We killed this same animal were we went to work, men the faeces stinks, it has big faecs

now i KNOW u are INCREDIBLE.. so u chow that?

Your pot dey lick?

Person wey say he dey smoke igbo(cannabis) u still dey ask?

Xannadu:
Your story started with a pet mongoose and then sidetracked to a python and ended with cultists and their brew. At some point I was beginning to think of you were okay (no offence). I'm still trying to decide whether you're just a regular brilliant guy just reminiscing in no particular direction, or simply non compos mentis.

E for bite you your own for finish cuz what that thing has in its mouth is more than poison, be forming wetin I no know.

Xannadu:
Your story started with a pet mongoose and then sidetracked to a python and ended with cultists and their brew. At some point I was beginning to think of you were okay (no offence). I'm still trying to decide whether you're just a regular brilliant guy just reminiscing in no particular direction, or simply non compos mentis.

i swear the dude dey on a lite one ....nice write up though

Good to know mongooses are present in nigeria...snakes go hear am.

AS E BE SO NA EBOLA YOU DON CARRY SO OOOO

mikkyangel3:
No head or tail to be made of this tripe of a post.

How did this steamy pill of poo make it to the frontpage?

Have you seen a Mongoose?

illicit:
😯

Why you dey shocked? 😀

OKOATA:
They can kill any big rabbit. They have sharp teeth and can bring down even big chicken so train it well o. Rabbit na him best food.

Snakes actually

I have been wanting to train a mongoose Chaii!!
I love the way they kill and eat snakes,I especially love their fight

chai you remind me of a time in 2004-2008 when i used to go to a bush with skinner, don kan and oghome to take kpolli. nothing like smoking in the wild. it's pure heaven.
in the middle of this thick forest is a hut with hardened men and criminals smoking and laughing and revelling together! everyone was like brothers. no one knows each others name or house but we bonded like brothers because of kpom. we laugh, joke and share blunt like long time brothers.
i later told my men that it was dangerous to sit down with these guys and smoke joints. about a month later, the places was raided by a crack team of police officers and someone was shoot dead. turned out some of the visitors to the little hut in the middle of that forest were hardened criminals and armed robbers. we have been sitting with these guys all along.
na God dey save him children true true

Xannadu:
Your story started with a pet mongoose and then sidetracked to a python and ended with cultists and their brew. At some point I was beginning to think if you were okay (no offence). I'm still trying to decide whether you're just a regular brilliant guy just reminiscing in no particular direction, or simply non compos mentis.

Lmao ... Wtf 😁😁😁

Mongoose will be very useful to people who have venomous snakes like black mamba around them. South Africans need this animal.

illicit:
Have you read any Ernest Hemingway...?

Not really. The old man and the sea was a compulsory read for us back then in secondary school but more of a Mark Twain, Shakespeare fan than Hemingway. But there's no doubt there's lots of brilliance in your write up though, maybe what threw me off was the title, rather than the content. I guess I wouldn't have minded if the title was more in line with your escapades in the forest, rather than the pet mongoose in particular. But then again, I'm not the writer here, you are.
Kudos.

illicit:
Yeah

Around 2021 or so...

I was in a popular town in Osun state, the town started as a refugee camp maybe two hundred years ago

I was living in the house of the richest woman in that town, behind our fence is a mango forest where I spend sometimes in the afternoon after work or sometime in the weekend doing nothing, just roaming about the little forest, beating around the bush like an idiom...

One afternoon, I saw a mother "Mongoose" on a mango tree and it saw me too. It was carrying it's baby with its mouth, maybe it wanted to exclaim haaaa mogbe as it saw me, so it inadvertently dropped the kid it was holding with its mouth.

I had never seen a "Mongoose" before then, not even on NatGeo or any book.

I didn't even know what to call it. I knew it wasn't a rat and not a bird of course.

The mother "Mongoose" ran away.

The baby it dropped was still blind and couldn't move.

It looked like a big rat with a bushy tail.

I picked it and took it home but I didn't know what to feed it. I fed it milk I wasn't sure it was ingesting it.

It was much later I got to know I could have fed it cockroach, lizard or gecko or flesh, it was a carnivorous animal I noticed it had canines, sharp canines unlike rats.

After some days it began to think I was it's mum, I kept it in my bathroom but men, it stinks like crazy. It has a peculiar smell that it secrets.

The smell was something else, worse thing is the kind of noise it makes, it's a pitchy noise louder than a rat's, and longer, it's unbearable.

I had to ditch it ASAP.

I returned it to the same spot I found it in the forest after about a week.

When I was trying to confirm its identity, I posted it here on NL and some Nlanders reached out to me. Pocahontas and some guy who runs a kind of zoo or animal rescue reached out.
https://www.nairaland.com/6581669/abeg-which-animal

In fact he was gonna buy it, but that was the day after I had returned it to the bush...

Maybe it was worth a fortune, maybe not. 😆

But it could have been unlucky if it were some kids that found it. They would have probably kill it and not even eat it.
Or maybe a snake would have swallowed it but I learnt they feast on snakes too actually, but this was a baby, I doubt it could withstand a grown snake.

Nobody in that vicinity knew what it was. They had never seen it...

Something tells me there would be a Python in that bush and I always looked forward to encounter one but it never happened, maybe it would have been another story or i wouldn't live to tell the tale.
I was always in that bush like one hour everyday, doing nothing but roaming, with my phone in hand, my Bluetooth speaker, my mug of coffee or coke, or sometimes Alcohol and most importantly, his royal highness, some Blunts.

It was ways cool there, natural. There was a shallow stream too filled with crabs and at the bank were some palm trees usually with ripened fruit. Some days I would go with a cane, fishing line, hook and sinker and pretend to fish, but I never caught nothing 😊

Sometimes later, some cultists from OAU ife were caught in that same bush during an initiation ceremony, somebody snitched on them.
The police and local vigilante went after them and they left in a hurry leaving their kokoma (brew) behind...

Some of them were caught but that brew that they left behind, the vigilante carried it and brought it to my area, to my friends bakery, there were drugs and hard drugs too.
We used some of their drugs, cannabis, rohypnol, maybe molly ( I only do cannabis)

Nobody knew what was in that kokoma but it was mostly palm wine, schnapps and some of the tablets from the look of it.
Some of us drank it and the next day they said they had a hard time staying awake and conscious 🤐


I was not sure if those cult boys had not added their blood to that brew as it wasnt black or brown or red but then I wouldn't try it.

Anyway I doubt it because it seems the initiation had just started when the police arrived the scene and screamed hands up everybody...

If you move but they moved 😂

I like to reminisce and write whenever I am bored

From mongoose to kokoma, to cannabis. This your story be like Nigeria's situation under Tinubu- no head, no tail.

illicit:
Anyway I doubt it because it seems the initiation had just started when the police arrived the scene and screamed hands up everybody...

If you move but they moved 😂

So funny 🤣🤣

Germi9:
Snakes actually

Aswear you are right. For them to fight to the death to have the taste of snake meat then something must be behind it. 🤣🤣🤣

Nigerian man tell you say he catch “bush meat” and he come return am back to the jungle and you believe am ?😂😂😂

Sucre6:
What's the need posting a follow up thread when u have release the animal back to the wild, I was expecting to see progressive growth of the animal and how far big it had became.