IKE
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- Location
- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
About an hour ago in shorts and flip flops I was out back watering mama's flower and herb beds, with a watering wand attached to a hose, before the sun came up good to beat the heat. I was watering her thick mint bed and noticed a couple of weeds so I bent down to pull it and immediately felt a bite on my forefinger and when I pulled my hand out of the bed I saw that I had a snake attached to my finger......it was about 12 to 14 inches long and about the diameter of my little finger.
I shook my hand violently a couple of times and it landed dazed in the yard a few feet from me and I had a few very small / pin size holes oozing a hardly noticeable amount of blood.
By now my mind was racing 100 mph and I knew that I had to ID the snake to see if it was venomous or not so I'm looking around for a long stick to help catch it with but didn't see one so I started unscrewing the aprox. 3' watering wand from the hose which still had water running through it and naturally I got drenched.
I took the wand and pinned the snakes head down and grasp him behind the head and picked him up to look at him......judging by the shape of the head and his round eye pupils I was pretty much certain that it wasn't venomous so I carried him about 150 yds. or so from the house and let it go in a large overgrown field.
After releasing it I finished watering the flowers and herb beds then rolled up the hose and came inside for a cup of coffee and change out of my wet shorts......knowing that she would have a fit I never said nothing to mama, I just gave her a goodbye peck and let her go to work.
Now from looking on the computer it appears that the snake was a fairly common and non-venomous 'brown snake'.
Even as a kid I never have been afraid of snakes and through the years I caught many of them here and overseas that were both posionous and non-posionus and released them.......as a kid I remember taking them to school to scare the little girls.
Hopefully that will be the most exciting thing that will happen to me today.
I shook my hand violently a couple of times and it landed dazed in the yard a few feet from me and I had a few very small / pin size holes oozing a hardly noticeable amount of blood.
By now my mind was racing 100 mph and I knew that I had to ID the snake to see if it was venomous or not so I'm looking around for a long stick to help catch it with but didn't see one so I started unscrewing the aprox. 3' watering wand from the hose which still had water running through it and naturally I got drenched.
I took the wand and pinned the snakes head down and grasp him behind the head and picked him up to look at him......judging by the shape of the head and his round eye pupils I was pretty much certain that it wasn't venomous so I carried him about 150 yds. or so from the house and let it go in a large overgrown field.
After releasing it I finished watering the flowers and herb beds then rolled up the hose and came inside for a cup of coffee and change out of my wet shorts......knowing that she would have a fit I never said nothing to mama, I just gave her a goodbye peck and let her go to work.
Now from looking on the computer it appears that the snake was a fairly common and non-venomous 'brown snake'.
Even as a kid I never have been afraid of snakes and through the years I caught many of them here and overseas that were both posionous and non-posionus and released them.......as a kid I remember taking them to school to scare the little girls.
Hopefully that will be the most exciting thing that will happen to me today.