A brief introduction to Prozac!
	
	Prozac is my pet corn snake IRL. She’s a Sunglow cornsnake, a variety that lacks 
all of the black and most of the white pigment of a normal corn - so she’s mostly a bright 
orange-red, with a white chin, yellow neck, and salmon pink belly, accented by orange 
eyes and a red-and-black tongue. She’s about six years old now (2003), and somewhere 
around five feet long – definitely on the large side for her species – tho I haven’t 
measured her recently. 
	Like my cat Samson, Prozac has a very…well, a *strong* personality, to be 
polite. ;) She got her name because she NEEDS SOME! Prozac is a strange combination 
of vicious, assertive, ‘bite-first-ask-questions-later’ bad girl, and nervous, high-strung, 
‘hey-don’t-touch-me’ coward. 
	She’s not actually vicious – she only bites in self-defense – she just has a very 
BROAD idea of what self-defense means. ;) She also has strict rules of propriety when it 
comes to being handled, and failing to observe these rules WILL result in bloodshed. She 
never bites without provocation – it’s just that HER idea of ‘provocation’ is drastically 
different from anyone else’s. ;) 
	Prozac, like Samson, suffers from an excess of nicknames, including Prozie, 
Pozie, Poze, and Squiggle. Her nicknames are deliberately cute – my parents and brother 
are mildly phobic about snakes, as are many of my friends, so I figured sweet nicknames 
might make them better disposed towards her. 
	Regardless of what anyone else says, tho, I love my crazy little girl – she’s strong, 
sleek, adorable, and *always* makes me laugh. =)