Afraid of snakes ???

I haven't seen the local big Brownie yet but I watched Belle sniffing a scent trail across the ground and gravel in a zig zag so he's baaaack!

I recognize that action Tezza, did the same once when I realised the fresh shiny wet cow pat I had a foot either side of when picking mushrooms was a red-belly black snake. It took off as fast I did, luckily in the opposite direction.
 

Diwundrin said:
I haven't seen the local big Brownie yet but I watched Belle sniffing a scent trail across the ground and gravel in a zig zag so he's baaaack!

I recognize that action Tezza, did the same once when I realised the fresh shiny wet cow pat I had a foot either side of when picking mushrooms was a red-belly black snake. It took off as fast I did, luckily in the opposite direction.
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I neglected to mention that I almost needed a change of undies !...
 

terra said:
I had a "moment" yesterday. I was doing some garden work at my part-time job on a nearby farm.. just pulling a few weeds and as I moved along the edge of the garden, I glanced sideways and there's a nice big Copperhead snake cruising past about 12 inches from my foot.
Naturally, I jumped about 1 metre high off the ground...... the snake took off, startled... and my heart rate doubled to warp speed.

I reckon that the long dry period has brought them closer in search of water..... yep !... need some rain !

some info on the Copperhead: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/view-image.htm?index=6&gid=11893
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Don't worry ... they are only dangerous if they bite you.
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Jackie22 said:
Living in the country, I see snakes often, just this week I was cleaning out the garage and found a snake skin about 6' long....eek, I was very careful with the rest of the cleaning.
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I was in a ladies' forum several years ago. One of the regulars. from Missouri, whose husband traveled and she lived alone as she said, "out in the boonies" Mon-Fri. One night she posted that she had just found a 4.5 ft. snakeskin in one of her kitchen drawers in a home they were renting. Nuff said, I would have packed what I needed and left the home and never gone back under any circumstances. Her hubby would have had to handle the rest, or in my case a moving company! We all found it extremely odd that after 3+ years of membership w/the group, she never posted again after finding the snakeskin. The rest of us imagined all kinds of things that may have happened to her and you can imagine what we were thinking. No one had her phone number or even her last name, but her e-mails were bounced back to us....very, very strange.
 
Katybug said:
I was in a ladies' forum several years ago. One of the regulars. from Missouri, whose husband traveled and she lived alone as she said, "out in the boonies" Mon-Fri. One night she posted that she had just found a 4.5 ft. snakeskin in one of her kitchen drawers in a home they were renting. Nuff said, I would have packed what I needed and left the home and never gone back under any circumstances. Her hubby would have had to handle the rest, or in my case a moving company! We all found it extremely odd that after 3+ years of membership w/the group, she never posted again after finding the snakeskin. The rest of us imagined all kinds of things that may have happened to her and you can imagine what we were thinking. No one had her phone number or even her last name, but her e-mails were bounced back to us....very, very strange.
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Don'tchya just hate it when that happens!?

I'd like to think that anyone who lasts more than a few months on a forum ensures that at least one other member, or the moderator, has some contact number or email address for a friend or relative. It can create quite a feeling of loss when someone just vanishes. Like Ozarkgal, I wonder about her almost every day.

Oh, siiiigh Tezza, if only. I think Mongooses are banned here too, like Hamsters. The snakes are the protected species, not us.
 
I wonder about Ozarkgal too.

A few years ago this small kitten adopted us. I was sitting in a lawn chair with the kitten when this 6 foot long black rat snake crawled alongside the chair and stopped. The curious kitten jumped down and started swatting at the snakes tail. The snake started crawling away with the kitten chasing it. I got up and started after them. The snake got to a shed and started crawling up the wall when the kitten grabbed its tail.
Before I could get there the snake turned around and struck the kitten. Now this snake could have easily eaten this kitten for lunch, but what surprised me was the snake didn't open its mouth. It didn't try to hurt the kitten, it just wanted to be left alone. I got there by then and grabbed the kitten and I'm sure I heard the snake give a sigh of relief.
 
Wow...that is one long skinny snake, we have chicken snakes here that look similar...very long and very black, their main diet is bird eggs and baby birds, I have vines on my back patio and the birds build nest in them and attracts the snakes..
 
rkunsaw said:
I wonder about Ozarkgal too.

A few years ago this small kitten adopted us. I was sitting in a lawn chair with the kitten when this 6 foot long black rat snake crawled alongside the chair and stopped. The curious kitten jumped down and started swatting at the snakes tail. The snake started crawling away with the kitten chasing it. I got up and started after them. The snake got to a shed and started crawling up the wall when the kitten grabbed its tail.
Before I could get there the snake turned around and struck the kitten. Now this snake could have easily eaten this kitten for lunch, but what surprised me was the snake didn't open its mouth. It didn't try to hurt the kitten, it just wanted to be left alone. I got there by then and grabbed the kitten and I'm sure I heard the snake give a sigh of relief.
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Good story, and I'm glad it had a happy ending.
 
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