aussie girl
Senior Cook
Bravo texasgirl - that takes guts.
I've only killed one in my life, but shook for an hour afterwards. I was about 18 and on my way out the door for nightshift at 3.45. No-one else was at home, and a tiger snake greeted me at the doormat. So I quickly slammed the door and exited via the front door, raced around the house, crept up behind and slammed it with a spade.
My parents lived in a low lying, swampy area for many years. Dad wisely kept a spade outside of both doors. He often tells of the drought in 1957, when he would kill a snake almost every morning by the garden tap outside.
Plenty of stories of a snake inside the house too! Three in my lifetime, but one I remember clearly was a Christmas eve when I was about 10. Mum was cooking the turkey in the wood stove. Dad bought in an extra supply of wood for her in a wooden box and sat it on the hearth. About 20 minutes later a tiger snake slithered out, Mum screamed, Dad raced and got the gun, and there is a .22 bullet hole in the floor still to confirm the story.
I've only killed one in my life, but shook for an hour afterwards. I was about 18 and on my way out the door for nightshift at 3.45. No-one else was at home, and a tiger snake greeted me at the doormat. So I quickly slammed the door and exited via the front door, raced around the house, crept up behind and slammed it with a spade.
My parents lived in a low lying, swampy area for many years. Dad wisely kept a spade outside of both doors. He often tells of the drought in 1957, when he would kill a snake almost every morning by the garden tap outside.
Plenty of stories of a snake inside the house too! Three in my lifetime, but one I remember clearly was a Christmas eve when I was about 10. Mum was cooking the turkey in the wood stove. Dad bought in an extra supply of wood for her in a wooden box and sat it on the hearth. About 20 minutes later a tiger snake slithered out, Mum screamed, Dad raced and got the gun, and there is a .22 bullet hole in the floor still to confirm the story.