Are you bothered by "nature"?

Bella said:
snakes
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Made me think of another wildlife story.

When living in Florida we had a cat bring in a small brightly colored snake with red yellow and black bands. It was still very much alive. I wasn't sure if it was the deadly coral snake or the harmless king snake.

I remembered the rhyme:

"Red then yellow it'll kill a fellow,
Red then black friend of Jack"...

Or was it:

"Red then black it'll kill Jack,
Red then yellow kill a fellow"

It was first thing in the morning and me without coffee... My mother and the grandkids were in the house, so it was no small deal.

While I was trying my best to remember the right rhyme I managed to get it rounded up into a large bucket without harm, but did not want to release a coral snake in the yard. After some internet research it appeared we had a harmless scarlet king snake and not a coral snake. Then I released it.
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Alligatorob said:
Made me think of another wildlife story.

When living in Florida we had a cat bring in a small brightly colored snake with red yellow and black bands. It was still very much alive. I wasn't sure if it was the deadly coral snake or the harmless king snake.

I remembered the rhyme:

"Red then yellow it'll kill a fellow,
Red then black friend of Jack"...

Or was it:

"Red then black it'll kill Jack,
Red then yellow kill a fellow"

It was first thing in the morning and me without coffee... My mother and the grandkids were in the house, so it was no small deal.

While I was trying my best to remember the right rhyme I managed to get it rounded up into a large bucket without harm, but did not want to release a coral snake in the yard. After some internet research it appeared we had a harmless scarlet king snake and not a coral snake. Then I released it.
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What is the matter with you, man?? Putting a bucket over a snake....you should just get out of harm's way!!
You will notice I deleted the picture part of your message..... EW!!

I have got to go lie down and refresh myself....geesh.
 

Paco Dennis said:
Cotton Mouths and Water Moccasins
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Aren't they the same thing?

We used to call all cottonmouth moccasins. The most common venomous snake in Florida and Louisiana. I never killed one. However, I had an Uncle who was duck hunting in Louisiana, one fell out of an overhanging tree branch into his boat. He quickly shot it, before thinking. It was a long wet trip back to the landing.
Right Now said:
What is the matter with you, man?? Putting a bucket over a snake....you should just get out of harm's way!!
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I like snakes and never kill unless necessary to protect people, and that is rare. Do you remember the BC Comics character that was always killing (or trying to kill) snakes?
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Alligatorob said:
I like most wildlife, select insects excluded.

I do have a wildlife problem story.

When I lived in Ohio a groundhog dug its den right under my foundation, kicking out gravel. I got worried it could undermine part of the house. So I decided the groundhog had to go.

First I tried a have a heart trap. Thought I'd live trap him and release somewhere he'd be happy. Caught several of the neighbor's cats, a couple of possums, one racoon, but no groundhog.

Then I decided to try flooding him out, put a hose down his hole ran the water for a while. No groundhog emerged, but I did succeed in flooding the basement.

Next I found some smoke bombs designed to drive groundhogs out of their den. Probably put too many down the hole. Didn't seem to bother the groundhog, but the smoke got into our basement and house. Even with major ventilation it was unlivable for a few days...

At that point I decided to up things, I sat quietly by the hole with a 22 pistol, for hours. He finally emerged, but I missed... This was in town, I did not want to do much shooting so I gave up on the idea.

Then one day I saw him in the back yard. I studied his location and could see it was a safe place to shoot into. So I turned the lights off in the house, got out my 30-06 deer rifle and shot from inside the house through an open door. Illegal of course, but safe. It worked, no more groundhog. And no one noticed the sound of the shot.

Kind of felt like something out of Caddyshack.
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You definitely need to make a movie out of this ..."Caddyshack 2". I'd take all of my grandchildren to see it (but no closeups of the final scene please).
 
1955 said:
For deer you need to stomp your foot & snort at them. That tells them to get lost:D
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The only fertilizer I use is MILORGANITE. Deer seem to hate the smell and keep away. (This sounds disgusting) but it's made from processed human waste. MILORGANITE won't claim it's a deer repellent, but that's a side-perk I found. Check it out.
 
down2earth said:
The only fertilizer I use is MILORGANITE. Deer seem to hate the smell and keep away.
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Never heard of that one! We’ve tried all the various deer repellent with no success. We even went to the local wildlife refuge and got a trash barrel of lion poop – they were happy to get rid of it. Even though it stunk to high heaven (very hard to describe) it didn’t work either. Finally I electrified the fence and that helped the most. But if you have something they want there’s no stopping them.
 
1955 said:
Never heard of that one! We’ve tried all the various deer repellent with no success. We even went to the local wildlife refuge and got a trash barrel of lion poop – they were happy to get rid of it. Even though it stunk to high heaven (very hard to describe) it didn’t work either. Finally I electrified the fence and that helped the most. But if you have something they want there’s no stopping them.
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The only thing worse than a hungry deer is TWO HUNGRY deer.
 
sister thought she has a deer problem at her WV mountain place... something was emptying her bird feeders. she moved them as high as possible while standing on roof of her suv. later found them ripped off the trees and mangled on the ground... then she suspected Yogi & Boo Boo.
 

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