Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Heeeeeere Fluuufffyy!!!

Check out Cindy Wolff: It would be hard not to pick up a shovel and swing when you meet Fluffy.
It would be your first instinct. That or to run.
But not to fear. Fluffy may give you the willies, but he's harmless. Really.
The brown and tan-spotted 5-foot boa constrictor was in the backyard at his home on Walnut Grove across from Galloway Golf Course on July 8, a lazy Sunday. His owner, Dana Shields, 39, was sunning in a lounge chair reading magazines while Fluffy inched around the grass.
Shields got up to water some plants and got distracted. After about 15 minutes, she remembered her snake. She ran to the backyard. No Fluffy.

It would be your first instinct. That or to run.

But not to fea…

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