Inspired by Shep's snake tale, or tail, or sumpin'....do SNAKES give you the WILLIES?

[TigH]

Oh, I love them!

I used to hate them, but some friends had a few snakes as pets and after handling the most gentle snake one day, I changed my mind about them.

Here is a good snake story - we lived in Calvert County, MD. Winter was ending and and I was raking leaves out of the flower beds. I found a snake that looked like a worm (turns out it was called a worm snake!) I didn't think it was dead, so I placed it on the deck in a sunny spot to see if it would warm up and wiggle away. I leave the deck and moments later hear DH say, "What's this?" I look up as he FLINGS this poor little snake into the woods (I'm sure it hit a tree). I searched and searched for it, but never found it. DH is cracking up because he had no idea I was trying to revive the poor little snake. When he was throwing it into the woods, I felt like I was watching it in slow motion.

We see tons of snakes here. When we're out walking, we see lots of little black snakes (and not so little ones) the occasional coral snake and I even saw a pygmy rattlesnake once.

I was out hanging the laundry a few weeks ago and saw a coral snake burrowing into the mulch not far from the clothesline. Needless to say that flowerbed is growing weeds like crazy and I don't plan to dig in there dirt there any time soon!

We were clearing out the wooded area in our back yard over the winter and my husband saw a very fat, not too long, snake in the leaf litter. It was a chilly day, so this guy was not moving at all. My husband said, "Hey, a snake!" and my sister, who was about 2 feet from him, screamed bloody murder and bounded out of the wooded area in about three steps (she must have covered 30 feet in nanoseconds).

Ok, SSB, you are probably sorry you started this thread now!

 

[catsrule]

No, I like to pet them.

Bugs give me the Willy's....yay for snakes that eat bugs!

 

[Serena]

Okay, most of ya'll know we have a couple snakes here. Here's as story that I told once already. lol

We went to the pet store and Brittany brings her snake with her. People offer to buy it all the time, it's got really good coloring and really healthy. She just smiles and says "no".
I finally drag the girls out of the pet store and decide to stop at Papa Johns to get a pizza to take home.
Me and Kelsea go in and we're in there about 30-45 minutes. When we get outside Brittany is frantically looking around the car. I've got a feeling I know what happened, but I ask anyway, hoping it's something else.
She fell asleep and Rio went on an adventure. I find him slitering into the ducts. I start calling anyone I could find to help, but no one really had a clue what I could do.
We drive home and finally dh gets home and starts taking my car apart, piece by piece. He's not happy btw. We find the part of the duct that Rio's hiding in he takes it apart and brings into the house. We try and dip one end in water, hoping the snake will come out.
Well, she didn't come out for a few days. She almost didn't make it. She had just eaten the day before and by the time she decided she wanted out, she was bigger. Her skin was damaged, but she made it. A couple sheds later she was fine.
And no, we don't bring into the car without a carrier now. You wanna see?

 

[NancyIL]

SSB...you must get lots of exercise from all that "running like a schoolgirl"!

Here's my snake story...I took a 3-week nature study course at the CMU Biological Station (Beaver Island, MI) one summer while I was in college. (I also lived in a tent for those 3 weeks!) Our classroom was a science lab, and there were various varmints in cages throughout - including snakes. I used to make a brown bag lunch and keep it in the refrigerator in the lab. The refrigerator was also shared by the snakes in the lab - because the cold air supposedly slowed down their movements! As far as I can tell - the snake(s) never bothered my bag lunches, and I was always quick to retrieve my lunch from the refrigerator each day!

I was much more afraid of bees - and was greatly annoyed by all the mosquitos that summer!

 

[gemmie214]

NO I do NOT wanna see

 

[Serena]

 

[debster812]

Jana,

I was waiting for you to show up on this thread. lol.

I don't wanna see either

 

[The Godfather]

Was hoping for one or two "snake" pictures on this note...

 

[catsrule]

Godfather!

We're have you been? How are the kitties? Did you know they have a 'Cat Island' in the Bahamas?

 

[PandyPaws]

I hate snakes. I am absolutely PETRIFIED of snakes!!!

Here's my snake encounter:

Years ago, I was working for a Mayflower Moving company, warehoused alongside some railroad tracks. I had gone into the bathroom, went about my business, and just ready to exit the room when a snake crawls (and I really hesitate to use the word crawl, this thing was FAST!) out from under a cabinet, across the floor (inches from my feet) and goes underneath the hot water tank....I was momentarily frozen in FEAR, then bolted for the door, turned the lock, pulled the door....and....it didnt open!

Now, with my panic level risen, I am pulling and tugging and then pounding on the door hoping the guys would hear me, heart pounding, ready to SCREAM my head off....then about to totally LOSE it, I put my shoulder into the door...and it FLEW open!! It is when I'm on the other side (about 20 feet away with momentum, LOL) that I remember it was a door that opened outward, not inward like they usually do

I did not stick around to watch them retrieve this nasty critter and deposit it back outside

 

[Mamu]

Not a snake lover, but we can share the same yard as long as they know their place.

True snake story: DH was about 8 his brother 9. They had been hunting down snakes all day. Collected about 20. They put them in a brown papper bag and snuck them in the house. A while later they started fighting over the bag. Their mother became furious, grabbed the bag. Snakes went flying everywhere and so didn't their mother. I think they were grounded for a week and forbidded to collect snakes any more. After the snake incident they moved on to snapping turtles.

Good thing they didn't live in Florida they probably would have had a house full of gators.

 

[TigH]

Mamu,

I knew you were from MA when I read "and so didn't their mother". Cute story!!!

 

[julie_yet]

<font color=#0066FF>I kinda like snakes. They don't creep me out but I would be scared of getting bitten by one. I've handled them before and have actually thought about owning one.
I've seen my share of snakes at my grandmother's house way out in the boonies. I find them fascinating.

Here's my snake. An Albino Ball Python.

 

[Barb]

Not only do they give me the willies, they give me the heebie-jeebies, the creeps, the gross-outs, and anything else you can think of. I walk very fast through the reptile house at the zoo, taking care to never look in the windows! ugh! ack! yuck! ick!
"screaming like a little girl" doesn't even come close to descibing my opinion!

 

[Kermit]

I don't mind snakes. I give them their space, but I don't take off running. I like living here better than in Texas where I grew up because at least I know most of the snakes aren't poisonous. I do get scared when I'm hiking and come up to a rattlesnake.

 

[BabyLove99]

I hate snakes.................!!!!!!

 

[ahutton]

I've been afraid of them all my life. I was trying to get over the hyperventalating terrors watching Croc Hunter, and was doing okay. I could see them on TV and not have nightmares...

Then one afternoon we went to a large mall when DD was 6 months old. I'm pushing the stroller crossing from one store to another and less than 5 feet from me someone turn and has a 6+ foot snake similar to the one pictured above. I freaked.

Now we live in Texas, and I had to make an emergency 1a.m. pharmacy run. I came back and a garter snake was camped out on the neighbors doormat that I had to cross to get to our door. It took several minutes to get my courage up and once inside the house I had to scour the place to make sure he didn't follow me in.

Nope, LEAVE EM!