Snakes

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Originally posted by jmbo35660:
I just saw a snake on my front porch trying to get in my front door.

I guess that snake was looking for onion peelings. LOL !!!!!!

Where you been, hounddog? They've been asking about you on the other forum.

I hope you live on the other side of the world! I hate snakes and I've already seen 2 this year.

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Originally posted by jmbo35660:
I just saw a snake on my front porch trying to get in my front door.

Great...now the song by Al Wilson is stuck in my head....lol
>>>going to find the download >>>>>
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What kind was it?
That happened to me when i lived in Elgin....it was a big black racer. I was outside and couldn't get back in because of the dang thing and he was rared up like he was trying to open the door knob.

i like snakes.

yeah, what is it with the snakes this year? Mother-in-law killed one going to our garage about a month ago! hate 'em!

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i like snakes.

I like snakes too, Hoss. I do not kill snakes or spiders, and I think they are beautiful creatures and appreciate the job they were put here to do.

If only I could over my idiotic aversion to ****roaches...

I think there are only 4 venomous species in this area. It isn't hard to study what they looks like. Most of the others kill rats and need to be left alone.

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Originally posted by Mrs. Carl Brutananadilewski:
[QUOTE]i like snakes.

I like snakes too, Hoss. I do not kill snakes or spiders, and I think they are beautiful creatures and appreciate the job they were put here to do.

If only I could over my idiotic aversion to ****roaches...[/QUOTE

If that snake you like so well bit your child and you could see the damage I bet you would change your opinion

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Originally posted by mislidja:

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Originally posted by Mrs. Carl Brutananadilewski:
[QUOTE]i like snakes.

I like snakes too, Hoss. I do not kill snakes or spiders, and I think they are beautiful creatures and appreciate the job they were put here to do.

If only I could over my idiotic aversion to ****roaches...[/QUOTE

If that snake you like so well bit your child and you could see the damage I bet you would change your opinion

Snakes are extraordinarily misunderstood and, in most cases, feared needlessly. Snakes do not prey on humans and most will not attack humans unless the snake is startled or injured, preferring instead to avoid contact. Non-venomous snakes are not a threat to humans (except for constrictors which you don't have in North Alabama). The bite of non-venomous snakes are usually harmless because their teeth are designed for grabbing and holding their prey while swallowing it, rather than tearing or inflicting a deep puncture wound.

To avoid startling a slumbering snake, if you think you're entering an area where there might be one, make plenty of noise and beat at bushes or long grass and they will head in the opposite direction. If you see one on your deck, porch, etc. just shoo it away with a broom. When I lived in Florida we had one come in our office. We trapped it behind a lateral file cabinet, I caught it in a mailing tube, took it outside and set it free. It didn't even pay me any attention after it left the mailing tube but scooted off as fast as it could. It would have broken my heart if my bosses had insisted on killing it.

Maybe I should have written: My child was bitten by a snake where we spent a week in the hospital watching her leg swell to the size of a grown man's, during which time it turned black, there was chances of liver damage and various
other tissue damage. After this I no longer like snakes

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Originally posted by mislidja:
Maybe I should have written: My child was bitten by a snake where we spent a week in the hospital watching her leg swell to the size of a grown man's, during which time it turned black, there was chances of liver damage and various
other tissue damage. After this I no longer like snakes

I'm very sorry your child was bitten but based on your description of her symptoms it was a poisonous snake. Most snakes people encounter, then panic and kill, are NOT harmful unless you're a rodent. That is the unfortunate part of hating all snakes.

top down, i had the exact same experience of catching a harmless garter snake in our offices one time. the big boss man was literally dancing on his toes and flapping his hands. i tried to tell him there are no poisonous green and yellow striped snakes in n. america, but his ears were overcome by (his) shrieking.

mrs. carl, i am the same way. but i will kill a brown recluse if it's in my house. otherwise, spiders are fascinating creatures, aren't they?

mislidja, sorry about your child. i do not want mess around or be around poisonous snakes, but i don't hold it against all of them that some are poisonous. like pr says, the non-poisonous ones around here are beneficial to us and the environment.

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mrs. carl, i am the same way. but i will kill a brown recluse if it's in my house. otherwise, spiders are fascinating creatures, aren't they?

mislidja, sorry about your child. i do not want mess around or be around poisonous snakes, but i don't hold it against all of them that some are poisonous. like pr says, the non-poisonous ones around here are beneficial to us and the environment.

Yeah, hoss, I'll kill a brown recluse as well. I've been bitten by one, and it was ugly. But because I've been bitten by a brown recluse doesn't mean I'll kill every spider I see. I know what a brown recluse looks like. It's fine to kill anything or anyone that is posing immediate danger to you or yours. It's just that during my frequent canoeing, I see ignorant people going out of their way to kill ANY snake just because it's a snake. I've been in the car with someone who swerved to run over a snake crossing the road, which is just senseless and stupid.

yes, i've seen people try to hit snakes, too. that makes me sick.

i saw a little green snake crossing the road the other day. i had not seen one of them in years.

Also, if you kill a black kingsnake (common here) you may indeed be SAVING a copperhead or rattler, as kingsnakes KILL AND EAT them.

They're welcome in my yard.

Thank for the concern, thankfully she recovered with no lasting effects. After living in the county most of our lives we are well aquainted with which snakes are poisonous or not.
The chicken snake that lives by the barn (the one that steals five years off my life when he shows hisself) should prove I don't kill any snake I see. The others if I see them before they see me, are probable my only witnesses to breaking all running speed records.

My father swears to this day that he had a friendship with a black racer who lived in a stump along the route my father walked to get to school. Daddy says the snake would be waiting for him every morning and he would take off running with the snake chasing him up to a point...on the way home, the snake would be waiting on him and then he would chase the snake.

oh, that is the neatest story, top down! very cool.

I had a copperhead swim between my feet last week it showed little or no intrest in me I was a little conserned however. but its happened befor snakes have droped from trees on me once but pretty much seem to mind there own bizzness.