I hate Snakes
Nov 9th 2013, 5:16 pm
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Nov 9th 2013, 8:01 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
Sheesh. Snakes don't hunt people. They're quiet, unobtrusive, eat vermin, don't make a mess and generally remove themselves if you leave them alone. Why people hate them and yet tolerate dogs is beyond me.
Nov 11th 2013, 2:12 am
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Re: I hate Snakes
I have an irrational response to roaches, unfortunately. They utterly freak me out! Something strange happens behind my ears ... .
Nov 11th 2013, 3:01 am
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Nov 11th 2013, 11:42 am
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Re: I hate Snakes
We had a baby rattlesnake (a Western Diamondback to be precise) swimming around in our brand-new swimming pool one morning. The babies are even more dangerous than the adults apparently. My sister came over to initiate my husband into the fine art of beheading rattlesnakes, a useful skill for a Brit to have in Texas.
Keep in mind that non-venomous snakes are very useful and if you found one, it was probably on the trail of a mouse or rat. Rattlesnakes, however, do not mix well with gardeners, kids or border collies, so they sign their own death warrant in our garden...
Keep in mind that non-venomous snakes are very useful and if you found one, it was probably on the trail of a mouse or rat. Rattlesnakes, however, do not mix well with gardeners, kids or border collies, so they sign their own death warrant in our garden...
Nov 11th 2013, 1:44 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
We have plenty of snakes around the back yard, they keep the rat population down and they keep rabbits away from my vegetable garden. I have yet to see a venomous snake round here, but I know they're around.
When walking along a trail along a beach a couple of years back, we came across a coachwhip that must have been 9ft in length - an absolute monster. My wife ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
When walking along a trail along a beach a couple of years back, we came across a coachwhip that must have been 9ft in length - an absolute monster. My wife ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
Nov 11th 2013, 2:01 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
We have plenty of snakes around the back yard, they keep the rat population down and they keep rabbits away from my vegetable garden. I have yet to see a venomous snake round here, but I know they're around.
When walking along a trail along a beach a couple of years back, we came across a coachwhip that must have been 9ft in length - an absolute monster. My wife ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
When walking along a trail along a beach a couple of years back, we came across a coachwhip that must have been 9ft in length - an absolute monster. My wife ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
Nov 11th 2013, 2:01 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
We have plenty of snakes around the back yard, they keep the rat population down and they keep rabbits away from my vegetable garden. I have yet to see a venomous snake round here, but I know they're around.
When walking along a trail along a beach a couple of years back, we came across a coachwhip that must have been 9ft in length - an absolute monster. My wife ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
When walking along a trail along a beach a couple of years back, we came across a coachwhip that must have been 9ft in length - an absolute monster. My wife ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
Nov 11th 2013, 2:18 pm
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Nov 11th 2013, 2:18 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
Why? They aren't venomous...
Nov 11th 2013, 2:23 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
Yesterday when I got home from work I unlocked the side door of the covered in breezeway and walked up to the house door. Something caught my eye right before I moved forward to the back door step, a big fat black and yellow snake laying the length of the step and more
I panic at the site of snakes, I can't help it. I was home alone and knew it would be a good 20 minutes before M arrived. I didnt want to lose sight of it but I also couldn't move. It started moving and made it's way along the wall and was heading for the laundry room. The only thing I could grab was an umbrella and an empty flower pot, not sure what I was going to do but I made myself move and tried to throw the pot over it and push it in with the brolly
It didn't work and now it was behind the dryer.
Finally M arrived and he spent an hour hunting my snake, eventually he found it curled up behind the folded up ironing board and he removed it. It wasn't a venomous snake, it was probably as scared of me as I was of it but I just cannot act normally when snakes are involved.
Why am I still so scared? Every year since we have lived here I have seen snakes, either dead or alive, around the outside of the house or in the garage, the flower beds or the patio. This is the closest to actually being inside the house and it has really given me the jitters.
I really really hate snakes and I am so glad no one saw me do my panic jump up and down dance yesterday. It was not a pretty sight
I panic at the site of snakes, I can't help it. I was home alone and knew it would be a good 20 minutes before M arrived. I didnt want to lose sight of it but I also couldn't move. It started moving and made it's way along the wall and was heading for the laundry room. The only thing I could grab was an umbrella and an empty flower pot, not sure what I was going to do but I made myself move and tried to throw the pot over it and push it in with the brolly
It didn't work and now it was behind the dryer.Finally M arrived and he spent an hour hunting my snake, eventually he found it curled up behind the folded up ironing board and he removed it. It wasn't a venomous snake, it was probably as scared of me as I was of it but I just cannot act normally when snakes are involved.
Why am I still so scared? Every year since we have lived here I have seen snakes, either dead or alive, around the outside of the house or in the garage, the flower beds or the patio. This is the closest to actually being inside the house and it has really given me the jitters.
I really really hate snakes and I am so glad no one saw me do my panic jump up and down dance yesterday. It was not a pretty sight
Nov 11th 2013, 6:06 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
Not fond of snakes myself and have had a few encounters. Bats are the things that freak me out. Lived in an A-frame in Pennsylvania some years back and it turned out that the second floor walls (the walls in an A-frame are the angled roof) were infested with bats. Hundreds of them. 
The noise when they would fly out at night was incredible. I was on a ladder at the front of the house doing some work when one flew out of the roof and I fell off the ladder, with no injuries, fortunately.
Years before that I was at a friends house with another buddy, his wife was out, and we were playing cards when a bat came flying around the table. What followed would have been suitable for a Three Stooges movie. One guy wearing his volunteer fireman hat and coat, another with a blanket wrapped around him and a towel on his head and me with a kitchen pot on my head (the old wives tale of bats in your hair thing) chasing a bat around the apartment with a fishing net, a baseball ball and a golf club. Somewhere in the middle of all of this his wife comes home and practically collapses in a fit of laughter at the three brave men.
The bat finally flew out the window, likely with a good story to tell the other bats. 
I've always wished that I had a video of that. Would be at the top of the list on Youtube.
The noise when they would fly out at night was incredible. I was on a ladder at the front of the house doing some work when one flew out of the roof and I fell off the ladder, with no injuries, fortunately. Years before that I was at a friends house with another buddy, his wife was out, and we were playing cards when a bat came flying around the table. What followed would have been suitable for a Three Stooges movie. One guy wearing his volunteer fireman hat and coat, another with a blanket wrapped around him and a towel on his head and me with a kitchen pot on my head (the old wives tale of bats in your hair thing) chasing a bat around the apartment with a fishing net, a baseball ball and a golf club. Somewhere in the middle of all of this his wife comes home and practically collapses in a fit of laughter at the three brave men.
The bat finally flew out the window, likely with a good story to tell the other bats. I've always wished that I had a video of that. Would be at the top of the list on Youtube.
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Nov 11th 2013, 6:51 pm
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Re: I hate Snakes
That sounds hysterical! 
Nov 11th 2013, 7:04 pm
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