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[Palehorse]

I am the same way, Palehorse. I say the only good snake is a dead snake but I say that about spiders, mice, rats, bears, sharks, alligators, crocodiles and other dangerous animals!

Boots,belts, and wallets. The only 3 things snakes are good for, and to make them they have to be dead.

Once found a rat snake in the living room of a weekend farmhouse I owned. I walked in, saw it, walked out, grabbed a shovel, went back inside and beheaded the bastard. Right there.

I wasn't sure what kind of snake it was until after I had killed it. I didn't bother to look at it other than to target it with the shovel. I just saw a snake in the house and knew it was dead as soon as I could grab something.

I have a friend who kept a boa constrictor and reticulate python as pets. Kept them in a bathroom sized cage that he had installed a picture window onto the front of. He'd put live chickens and other animals inside, then sit on the couch he had positioned in front of the window to watch them eat them.

I was okay with it until he started feeding those snakes kittens. . . I stopped going over there after that one. . .

I don't like cats either, but I don't want to see them meet a fate like that one. . . 

[Locutus]

Wow! 

[Henry Hawk]

I will NOT kill a garter snake.  We had one last summer, that kept showing up and scaring the do-do out of my wife.  It was usually in the flower bed.  Anyway, he showed up on the trellis on our front porch right behind our porch swing, WHILE my wife was leisurely enjoying a glass of tea.

After a blood-curdling scream, I rushed out to investigate.  I was able to grab him behind the neck, and put him in a box.  I then walked him across the road, into a corn field.  I went a good 300 to 400 feet into the field, then I released him.

Three hours later, I was mowing my yard and I see this very snake coming across the road back towards my porch.  I was amazed.  I once again, grab him behind the neck, put him in a box....and drove him down the road a couple of miles and placed him next to a creek.

I told my wife, if he makes his way back, we are keeping this guy.  My wife disagreed.  She would rather I use the Palehorse method of keeping him away.... ...

[Purplelady1040]

Boots,belts, and wallets. The only 3 things snakes are good for, and to make them they have to be dead.

Once found a rat snake in the living room of a weekend farmhouse I owned. I walked in, saw it, walked out, grabbed a shovel, went back inside and beheaded the bastard. Right there.

I wasn't sure what kind of snake it was until after I had killed it. I didn't bother to look at it other than to target it with the shovel. I just saw a snake in the house and knew it was dead as soon as I could grab something.

I have a friend who kept a boa constrictor and reticulate python as pets. Kept them in a bathroom sized cage that he had installed a picture window onto the front of. He'd put live chickens and other animals inside, then sit on the couch he had positioned in front of the window to watch them eat them.

I was okay with it until he started feeding those snakes kittens. . . I stopped going over there after that one. . .

I don't like cats either, but I don't want to see them meet a fate like that one. . . 

I have no clue if this is a true story or not but according to the girl who does my hair, she had a customer who had a boa or python. She would let that crazy thing sleep with her, she noticed that it wasn't eating and took it to the vet. The vet asked where the snake slept and she said with her. The vet told her to quit that, it had quit eating to make room for her when it squeezed her to death. She abruptly got rid of the snake.

[Bo D]

I will NOT kill a garter snake.  We had one last summer, that kept showing up and scaring the do-do out of my wife.  It was usually in the flower bed.  Anyway, he showed up on the trellis on our front porch right behind our porch swing, WHILE my wife was leisurely enjoying a glass of tea.

After a blood-curdling scream, I rushed out to investigate.  I was able to grab him behind the neck, and put him in a box.  I then walked him across the road, into a corn field.  I went a good 300 to 400 feet into the field, then I released him.

Three hours later, I was mowing my yard and I see this very snake coming across the road back towards my porch.  I was amazed.  I once again, grab him behind the neck, put him in a box....and drove him down the road a couple of miles and placed him next to a creek.

I told my wife, if he makes his way back, we are keeping this guy.  My wife disagreed.  She would rather I use the Palehorse method of keeping him away.... ...

Good for you , Hank!!!   

[Purplelady1040]

Here is  funny, we had a lot of rain last night and flooded several streets in our town, ours included. My husband stepped on a 3 inch earthworm and thought it was a snake! ROFL, I am glad it was him and not me because I would have screamed!!!

[Exterminator]

People hate what they fear and kill what they hate.

[The Troll]

I will NOT kill a garter snake.  We had one last summer, that kept showing up and scaring the do-do out of my wife.  It was usually in the flower bed.  Anyway, he showed up on the trellis on our front porch right behind our porch swing, WHILE my wife was leisurely enjoying a glass of tea.

After a blood-curdling scream, I rushed out to investigate.  I was able to grab him behind the neck, and put him in a box.  I then walked him across the road, into a corn field.  I went a good 300 to 400 feet into the field, then I released him.

Three hours later, I was mowing my yard and I see this very snake coming across the road back towards my porch.  I was amazed.  I once again, grab him behind the neck, put him in a box....and drove him down the road a couple of miles and placed him next to a creek.

I told my wife, if he makes his way back, we are keeping this guy.  My wife disagreed.  She would rather I use the Palehorse method of keeping him away.... ...

  I'm with you Henry.  I like snakes, I would catch Garter snakes when I was a kid, in the spring and keep them all summer.     Letting them loose in the fall so they could find a place to live through the winter.   

  PurpleLady my snakes sure loved to eat big night crawlers    Eat it whole in one piece.     I will kill a poison snake if it's in the wrong place.   

  One day one of my friends caught a big black snake.  A farmer we knew said if we found any to bring them out to his barn and corn cribs.  We took out the snake to his farm and we turned the snake loose in a rat hole.     Rats came running out of every other hole.     The farmer said that about a week later that he seen the snake with a big lump in it's body and it had to have been a rat.   

[libby]

Neighbors tell me there's a black snake that lives among the herbs and other plants in my front yard rock garden. I tell them to leave it alone, that it scares away the mice and rats.

I don't have any real phobias, but am really afraid of rats.

[Henry Hawk]

I am NOT quite as kind to spiders as I am snakes....the catch and release program is not likely to happen with one of those creepy critters.

[Bo D]

I am NOT quite as kind to spiders as I am snakes....the catch and release program is not likely to happen with one of those creepy critters.

Spiders are your friends, too.

[The Troll]

  I like spiders too.        But the brown and whitish spiders    The Brown Recluse spider is one of the most dangerous spiders in America.      A friend of mine almost lost his little finger from a bite from a Brown Recluse Spider   The wound it made was terrible. 

  When my wife or myself find a spider in the house  It's capture and release.   

[Henry Hawk]

Spiders are your friends, too.

I REALLY want to be friends, but I have a difficult time in relaying my best behavior around them....they make the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up.

[Locutus]

I found one of those in the house one time too. 

[Henry Hawk]

Wow! You could start a New version of Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom"....right in your living room.....