Large Snakes at AKV?

[katmittens]

Jim have needed you several times happens more at VWL/WL than the other resorts not sure why.

when I see kid about to touch an animal - generally a squirrel, those things that look kinda like rabbits but aren't, chipmunk, or others try to tell the kid don't. too many times the PARENT is telling the kid that it is okay - that DISNEY tames these animals....Sometimes there is a Disney employee to say - disney does not train these animals. but more often have to say if the animals bite your kid, don't even try to sue disney - because I am a witness.

that is generally what gets the parent to think and reconsider their suggestion...

so any suggestion you have on how to deal with this would definitely be appreciate. It seems to happen alot. People really think that Disney tames all the animal.
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some snakes are great at getting rid of the insects. without the snakes florida would be worst than it is now. most snakes help humans - only a few are dangerous. that say agree with Jim leave them and other wildlife along.

now to get my cats to go along.....

It drives me crazy whenever we are at a pool on Disney property and there are ducks around and kids are trying to catch them and they bother them. Most of the time the CM's say nothing and neither do the parents. I am so tempted to tell the kids. LEAVE THE DUCKS ALONE. Why don't parents teach their kids to just look at the animals, they don't have to touch them.

 

[manning]

[*] But don't forget you can rest assured that some moron has fed them. .

That's for sure. One time while staying at BCV there was a guy out there feeding one with his daughter. I reminded him it was a florida law not to feed them. He looks at me and says "well I'm from N.J. so it did not apply to him. The guy passing us heard him and said "you are a %&*%$@* idiot. The guy acted insulted.

 

[FOXFIELDZOO]

That's for sure. One time while staying at BCV there was a guy out there feeding one with his daughter. I reminded him it was a florida law not to feed them. He looks at me and says "well I'm from N.J. so it did not apply to him. The guy passing us heard him and said "you are a %&*%$@* idiot. The guy acted insulted.

A gator?

 

[DizGirl20]

Not to add more fuel to the fire, but... Last summer my friend found a black widow spider in some grapes she purchased at a Shop Rite here in New Jersey. Yes, it was indeed verified as a black widow by a local environmental center. I was freaked out and wouldn't buy grapes for awhile. Now there are 2 bags of grapes in my fridge.

My point is, at any given time you never what you are going to come across no matter where you are. Just go and enjoy a wonderful Disney vacation!

 

[Ln42]

The way I look at it...as another who is totally wigged out about snakes for some unknown reason...is at DIS at least you have a ton of CM looking out for them and ready to deal with them if they come around. You don't have that in your garden at home! We have only seen one at the Poly and thank goodness it was a small one but it just made me realize I had to watch myself. Never seen one since...fingers crossed!

 

[SamSam]

A gator?

BCV had a gator in the canal off and on for several years. I think they finally successfully relocated it. Anytime we saw it, there were always some totally clueless people dropping food in the water to feed it.

 

[crisi]

[*]Alligators in the wild (where I work) are docile if left alone. But don't forget that they are top-level predators. In venues where lots of people are (especially a place like WDW), you can rest assured that some moron has fed them. Alligators who are fed associate people with food, and eventually become very aggressive. Hence, "a fed animal is a dead animal."

We had a friend who went to school in Tallahassee. Being unaware Northerners we were shocked when he took us here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F..._Wakulla_Springs_State_Park_in_Florida_cr.jpg

Gators on one bank, swimming area on the other......

 

[manning]

A gator?

That's what you get when you don't proof read. It was a gator.

 

[liznboys]

We saw a small snake on the splash pad area at BLT last summer.

It was dark out and one of my boys saw it. One of them very easily could have stepped on it, it was hard to see it in the darkness. The poor thing was trapped in the pad, as there are drainage slats along the edges and it didn't seem to be able to get across them. I admittedly did a dumb thing and tried to pick it up with a pool towel and it tried to bite me (thankfully it just sort of butted it's head against my hand). We got a lifeguard CM and he caught it in a plastic bin and took it down to the lake.

 

[Ariel Girl]

Snakes....I amost stepped on a snake, staying at the Coronado Springs resort, in the middle of the summer time.....I was walking to breakfast, early in the morning, it was lightly raining out...and I was talking with my mom and a friend....and walked right over a snake!! It was pure LUCK, I didnt step on it! It was culed up tightly, like a disk, right in the middle of the sidewalk...big! I was so freaked out. I think it was sleeping or enjoying the warm rain!
I still get chills thinking about it! Big and black! What would have happened if I stepped on it?? I can only wonder!
I also saw a snake, in the grass, waiting for a monorail once! I told a worker, and he removed it Immediately!

 

[spiceycat]

hey the big, black ones eat the other snakes - he is your friend.

they were called king snakes. they don't bite people (on the whole). make one mad and any snake will bite.

 

[spiceycat]

We had a friend who went to school in Tallahassee. Being unaware Northerners we were shocked when he took us here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F..._Wakulla_Springs_State_Park_in_Florida_cr.jpg

Gators on one bank, swimming area on the other......

saw several of those sign near Disney at offsite - the Hilton, Marriott, any place with a lake. most places don't allow swimming in the lake for a good reason - not only gators but bacteria or fungus thing.

 

[nickspace]

Does anyone have any pictures of DVC/Disney snakes?

 

[FOXFIELDZOO]

BCV had a gator in the canal off and on for several years. I think they finally successfully relocated it. Anytime we saw it, there were always some totally clueless people dropping food in the water to feed it.

I always look for them and have never seen one,I"m going to keep looking

 

[FOXFIELDZOO]

That's what you get when you don't proof read. It was a gator.

HAHAha thats ok I do that all the time,I was not sure if that was what you were talking about because I look for them all the time and have never seen one

 

[disneyfan4u]

Does anyone have any pictures of DVC/Disney snakes?

I would like to see some pics of some of those snakes.

It would be nice to have a thread that has pictures of all kinds of animals all over Disney. I remember a while ago there was a thread like that. It even had a pic of an Owl at one of the All Star resorts. I thought that would be pretty cool to look out and see sitting on the blacony.

 

[Cajun28]

Does anyone have any pictures of DVC/Disney snakes?

The one I saw on the Monorail ramp ducked into the bushes before I could get my camera out. I researched on the internet and the closest I could find to what I saw is the corn snake. So, if you google corn snake, you'll see the type of snake I saw. (or very near to it) It was one of the prettier snakes I've seen, the ones around here are usually brown, green or black.

 

[Disney Doc]

I also saw a snake, in the grass, waiting for a monorail once!

That's cool - I thought they usually took the bus...

 

[LilGMom]

Does anyone have any pictures of DVC/Disney snakes?

Somewhere on the DIS is a picture of a snake that was found on the curtain rod in a room at CR. There has also been a picture posted on a gator in Epcot.

I've lived in FL most of my life so the snakes, lizards, and frogs don't bother me but I still get creeped out by the roaches, palmetto bugs and spiders.

 

[deebits]

My DH and I were on the Monrail from Epcot to TTC and saw a gator (a really big gator) trying to eat a turtle. We actually had a CM who was on it with us and said the gator was trying to eat it for over 2 hours.