OKW - 2 snakes - first 2 hours - UPDATED 6/22

[BEASLYBOO]

That's the SAME BEAR who was caught a month ago in Weston!!! They caught him yesterday, and checked his eartag and it's the same darn bear!
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He Looks thin, I wonder what keeps driving him to keep coming back this way? Hopefully he'll be happier where they are taking him.

 

[katmittens]

I did see a snake at OKW in January by the pool. I only saw a glimpse, which was enough for me. I looked away and was assured by DH and my kids that they removed him. A CM picked him up and took him away, I don't believe he was too long. SO they are out in January. I love Florida and we are considerating buying a property there for future use, but I'm not sure I can live knowing they are around, but I also know if I move south they are everywhere in the south, like Ga, NC and SC. So I may remain a northern girl.

 

[Mlissa88]

He Looks thin, I wonder what keeps driving him to keep coming back this way? Hopefully he'll be happier where they are taking him.

All I keep thinking is that he's going to the Country Bear Jamboree....lol.

 

[M-I-C-K-E-Y]

In the (edited for TV) words of Samuel L. Jackson:

"I'm sick of these monkey fighting snakes on a Monday to Friday plane."

 

[lisah0711]

I did see a snake at OKW in January by the pool. I only saw a glimpse, which was enough for me. I looked away and was assured by DH and my kids that they removed him. A CM picked him up and took him away, I don't believe he was too long. SO they are out in January. I love Florida and we are considerating buying a property there for future use, but I'm not sure I can live knowing they are around, but I also know if I move south they are everywhere in the south, like Ga, NC and SC. So I may remain a northern girl.

Ooohh! I was afraid of that! From my many years of living near Phoenix, I learned that snakes can be active anytime but if it is cooler they are less active. Even up here in the great Inland Northwest just 80 miles south of Canada we have snakes in summer, even rattlesnakes at lower elevation. I guess Florida snakes make me a little more nervous because I don't have a good idea of what the dangerous ones look like -- I will have to check out some of these helpful links.

And about the poor bear, I hope that they find a good place to relocate him because it certainly isn't his fault he is in this mess.

 

[goofy4tink]

I had three snakes in my backyard on Friday My dogs were trying to play them.

OMG, my son was mowing the lawn on Thursday and said he saw 3 snakes in our backyard too! eeww

I saw a snake in my garden hose container this week also. Is it mating season in Massachusetts for snakes or is it because of all the rain?

Us too...we've been seeing a ton of garter snakes in the past few days. It must be snake season in Mass.
Now...I'm not telling my friend about this thread. She is really worried about running into snakes when we're in WDW in Dec...hopefully, it will be a bit too chilly and the little guys will stay out of sight!!!

 

[JimMIA]

I guess Florida snakes make me a little more nervous because I don't have a good idea of what the dangerous ones look like -- I will have to check out some of these helpful links.

No matter where you are, there are only two basic ways to get bitten by a snake. You either get unlucky and accidentally step on one (or stick your hand blindly under a rock, into a bush, etc.), OR you intentionally try to tease one or pick it up.

So the fixes are:

1. Watch where you put your hands and feet.
2. If you see a snake, leave it alone.

There is no reason to worry about whether a snake is venomous or not. And there is no excuse for getting bitten by any snake. Just pay a minimal amount of attention to what you are doing and leave the critters alone, and you will have nothing to rationally fear from snakes.

Some people have irrational fears of snakes and other critters, and they can't help that. But for most of us, just a tiny bit of common sense is all we really need.

 

[RCharnay]

I would be so disapponted if after reading posts like this, OKW did a massive cutting of vegetation. I love the trees and bushes, everthing covered in green. I think the lanscaping there is amazing.

 

[bsusanmb]

OH...MY.....GOD....I hate snakes!!! They terrify me...saw one at the entrance of AK...well, I saw it on the sidewalk and I was ok with that...I saw
it first. But if one slithered across my foot I would have a HEART ATTACK.

I think I will just not wear my glasses while I am in WDW and then I won't see them...

This is why I don't move to Florida. My friend moved there and they had to put up a screened yard and they never go out in the yard in the dark without boots on...and never take let their little dog out alone in the yard....YIKES

In the mountains here in PA, there are lots of snakes, and I know people who have come across a bunch of black snakes hanging from the pipes in their basement...I would have MOVED immediately.

I can do blood, guts, pus, sputum, poop, anything a nurse can do, but not snakes, no way!! Think I will stay in my room next vacation

 

[katmittens]

I live in Northeaster Pa and we have some rattle snakes in the mountains and other garden snakes also. I hate them also, and my sister is scared to death of them and she has seen two of them in her yard yesterday alone. She has a stone wall on her property and like I tell her Snake Hotel

DH and I are going to Florida alone in Oct to look at areas that we may want to retire in and will be at AK Jambo for a few days. I hope I only see the animals on the savanna and the bunnies.

We went to Vero a few years ago, DH never told me until the other day when I was telling him about this thread that a snake went by us at Vero as we were laying by the pool. I guess I'm glad her never told me. He knows I would have been crazy if I knew.

 

[Maliki2]

Well last year while we were at MNSSHP, we were walking near the teacups, and the biggest rat that I have ever seen (we dont see many up in Vermont), ran across in front of us. So there are all kinds of critters out there.

 

[bsusanmb]

Oh, Dead God!!! I have to get off this thread. Why oh Why did I ever read this???? Now I am so paranoid. I am going to try not to look down anywhere. I was camping at Knobel's Park and there were copperheads...I almost stepped on one sunning himself...and as you walked down the lane, the snakes slithered through the tall weeds...ARG Hate them. Saw rats in Central Park NYC bigger than cats around the trash cans years ago.
They do have all kinds of traps around the resorts in the bushes to catch varments...gotta go, this is making me nuts!!!!!!!!!

 

[M-I-C-K-E-Y]

Back in 2003 we were at Animal Kingdom, at the main character greeting location (Camp Minnie-Mickey?) and were sitting at a circular bench area, waiting for one of the characters to return from a brief rest. All of a sudden my family FREAKS and start pointing at me! I look down just as a medium-sized colorful (can't remember, but there were stripes) darts ACROSS my shoe (came from the planter area near the bench) and went off toward the character area.

Few really like snakes, and I'm no fan of them, but this was quite a wake-up call! If you hate snakes, be careful at AK!