I killed a snake.

[texasgirl]

Wasabi, you nut. You are so funny!!

 

[MJ]

I can't believe I did it

Did you save it for the grill? I always wanted to try snake.

 

[kadesma]

Here where we live the only snakes are little garter snakes..If left alone they can get fairly large, but are shy and stay away from you...One day when my boys were like 6 and 7 I hear them yelling out on our carport..I go see what all the fuss is about and there is this little ol garter snake about 12 inches long..The boys want the snake so I scooped him up in a coffee can and put a lid on him...That night when DH comes home, ol Mr. Nosey has to get into the coffee can to see what I had in there, thinking cookies I use to hide them that way..Well let me tell you, you think women can scream,shiver, shake and have a fit,???Try an unsuspecting 30 something male hunting for cookies Needless to say, the poor little thing (snake) did not become a cherished pet.. But I sure had a good laugh
kadesma

 

[licia]

My dad was always big on practical jokes. Many times when he came home we would start asking "what did you bring us?". One day when he came home I asked that and he told me my present was in his jacket pocket. I put my hand in his pocket and brought out a king snake. That was enough to stop me asking that.

 

[shannon in KS]

These are hilarious stories! Well, ok, some are kinda scary! Some horrific... wasabi! Did your puppy escape unharmed?

 

[texasgirl]

Here where we live the only snakes are little garter snakes..If left alone they can get fairly large, but are shy and stay away from you...One day when my boys were like 6 and 7 I hear them yelling out on our carport..I go see what all the fuss is about and there is this little ol garter snake about 12 inches long..The boys want the snake so I scooped him up in a coffee can and put a lid on him...That night when DH comes home, ol Mr. Nosey has to get into the coffee can to see what I had in there, thinking cookies I use to hide them that way..Well let me tell you, you think women can scream,shiver, shake and have a fit,???Try an unsuspecting 30 something male hunting for cookies Needless to say, the poor little thing (snake) did not become a cherished pet.. But I sure had a good laugh
kadesma

Isn't it fun to see our macho studs in their real skin??

 

[texasgirl]

I'm glad your back kadesma. I hope everything is going okay with you!

 

[kadesma]

I'm glad your back kadesma. I hope everything is going okay with you!

I'm okay, had a touch of what ever it was Carson had and also a busy busy weekend with all the kids and grandkids...Still coughing my fool head off, but anti-biotics are kicking in and I feel much better..It's sweet of you to welcome me back..
kadesma

 

[-DEADLY SUSHI-]

kas its good to see you!!!!!

Wasabi!!!! Youre killing me!!! You goof! I love ya!!!

 

[Claire]

To be honest with you, I'm one of those terrible people who believes in killing them all and let God sort them out. Well, that makes me sound terrible, especially considering that when I see a snake, I scream "eeek" and run ... never killled one in my life. Living in Florida, though, we had a lot of snake incidents. At one time I had a huge rat and a huge black snake living just beyond my back gate. Food was disappearing from my garden in huge chunks. A local specialist told me I probably had a gopher turtle eating as well. Now, I had to ask, shouldn't the rat (who I'd seen) and the snake (who I'd seen often) be incompatible? They should be, but for some reason were co-habiting. Black snakes are not poisonous, but this one was huge and creepy.

The only time it got truly bad was when I had a young neice in the car, and we were getting out of it. Hubby said, "Claire, keep her in the car and shut the door." He'd gotten out of the car and almost stepped on a pygmy rattler. Not fun. Once we found a nest of some kind of poisonous snakes inside our pool area. There's a reason people are afraid of snakes.

 

[licia]

We keep an open container of moth balls just inside both sides of the garage as I've heard snakes don't like that. I don't know if it is true or not, but in 35 years we've only seen one snake (a black snake) and he scurried right out.

 

[crewsk]

Licia, my grandma throws mothballs out around her flower beds to keep snakes away from the house. She has an old barn & there has been a black snake living there for as long as I can remember but they won't come near the house.

I have several snake stories because I grew up in a house with woods on 3 sides & a cow/horse pasture on 1. We would find copperheads, cotton mouths(water moccasins), black snakes, & some I don't know what they were. We never killed the black snakes because their musky smell kept the copperheads & cotton mouths away.

This summer when I was picking blackberries at my parents house, I had a black snake go slithering between my feet as fast as he could go. I had stepped in some high grass at the edge of a blackberry bush & startled him.

Snakes don't give me the willies or anything, I actually like them & would love to have one as a pet but hubby's afraid of them.

 

[buckytom]

i woke up in my sleeping bag once with a snake coiled on top of me.

i was hiking on the appalachian trail, and a shelter that i had planned to stay at for the night was full. so i slept al fresco, and woke up with a little body heat thief.
we both awoke at the same time, looked at each other, eyes growing wide, screamed and ran/slithered in different directions...

 

[licia]

I can't say I am totally petrified by snakes - If they are about, I want to see where they are. The first year we lived in the country, My dh decided to take me and our two kids for a ride on his new tractor. I told my kids (age 10 and 3) we were going snakehunting, just a joke!!!. We came back home and in the ditch was a humongous rattle snake. Dh parked the tractor away and sent me to the house to get a gun and ammo while he kept the snake coiled so he couldn't get away. The only thing, I got a gun of one type and the ammo of another type. He wasn't pleased, but gave better directions as to how I could find the right combination. DH is 6 ft without shoes. After he killed the snake he ran a pitchfork through the head of it and held it over his head - the snake's tail was still curled on the ground. He insisted I take a picture of it for his trophy collection. It still gives me the creeps and I get the mental image I had that day - the way the road was, the way the kids looked. That is a moment that was frozen in my memory like almost no other.

 

[shannon in KS]

I like snakes, also, as long as they are not poisonous. If hubby ever consents, I would recommend a ball python. Very docile, and calm. A friend has one, and I am kinda attached to the little guy!

Snakes don't give me the willies or anything, I actually like them & would love to have one as a pet but hubby's afraid of them.

 

[crewsk]

Shannon, I'd like an albino corn snake or even a creamcicle corn snake. We had a youth director at our church once who had an albino & she was wonderful! Ball pythons are great too, they can be pretty smart at times also. One of my brother's friends had one that he carried around in a duffle bag & it would unzip the bag & get out. His name was Mr. Scary but there was nothing scary about him.

 

[buckytom]

an intelligent snake? i don't know about that, they can only count up to 1...

 

[AllenOK]

I can't say I am totally petrified by snakes - If they are about, I want to see where they are. The first year we lived in the country, My dh decided to take me and our two kids for a ride on his new tractor. I told my kids (age 10 and 3) we were going snakehunting, just a joke!!!. We came back home and in the ditch was a humongous rattle snake. Dh parked the tractor away and sent me to the house to get a gun and ammo while he kept the snake coiled so he couldn't get away. The only thing, I got a gun of one type and the ammo of another type. He wasn't pleased, but gave better directions as to how I could find the right combination. DH is 6 ft without shoes. After he killed the snake he ran a pitchfork through the head of it and held it over his head - the snake's tail was still curled on the ground. He insisted I take a picture of it for his trophy collection. It still gives me the creeps and I get the mental image I had that day - the way the road was, the way the kids looked. That is a moment that was frozen in my memory like almost no other.

Did you eat the rattler? One that big should have had a lot of meat on it. I hear they taste like chicken.

My little brother has both a ball python and a corn or milk snake. Both are babies. The python is maybe two years old, and I think the other is a year old. Last year, the python got out of it's aquarium. Needless to say, my mother was VERY upset, as she is NOT a snake person.

 

[licia]

No, we aren't that adventurous in our cuisine.

 

[shannon in KS]

yeah, the albino's are a nice color, I like them also. My friend also has one called a tangerine, and it's colors remind of of a sunset, gorgeous! A little high strung though!

Shannon, I'd like an albino corn snake or even a creamcicle corn snake. We had a youth director at our church once who had an albino & she was wonderful! Ball pythons are great too, they can be pretty smart at times also. One of my brother's friends had one that he carried around in a duffle bag & it would unzip the bag & get out. His name was Mr. Scary but there was nothing scary about him.