Lowes customer bitten by rattlesnake.

Bird · Apr 15, 2004

( Did I mention that I HATE SNAKES!! ? )

My grandson recently cleaned out the flower beds of old leaves, a little grass, etc. around their house (next door to me). Twice he came to show me snakes he caught while doing it. He found two nests of small garter snakes; didn't find the parents. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif But we just let them go on their way. So I know there's got to be at least 10 young ones around here somewhere. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Now I'm a bit particular myself; don't want them inside the house, but otherwise they're welcome. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Junkman · Apr 15, 2004

I had one in the kitchen last summer and it was more of a problem trying to keep the dogs from getting it than it was catching it. I don't care for them either, but I have handled them in the past. I respect them for what they are and don't kill them just because I might not care for one in the house. If people want to start killing everything that they don't like or are afraid of, then they should join the Army and go to Iraq. Plenty to shoot at there!

Inspector507 · Apr 15, 2004

I've found garters in the garden and twice in the house......those I just shoo away. It's the larger ones I ain't going near

Bird · Apr 15, 2004

( I have handled them in the past )

Me, too, but that school teacher's screaming when I laid one across her arm scared me and the snake worse than the snake scared her when I was a junior in high school. And when I worked for the post office, one of the truck drivers claimed to have had a heart attack and missed 3 days of work when I just showed him a little snake; didn't even get within 6 feet of him. I haven't handled them much since then. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

cowboydoc · Apr 15, 2004

You guys need to come out west. Rattlesnakes are pretty much an everyday occurence. No matter how many I see and how many I kill whenever I hear that rattle it sneds shocks down my spine. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif