txdon
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It looks severely limited in future benefits to me.
I don't know, maybe you could just lay it by your door to scare the rats away!
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I don't know, maybe you could just lay it by your door to scare the rats away!
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I know some of you folks are paranoid weenies, but come on... do you have to shoot every snake? Can't you just take the initiative to learn to identify them and let the non-venomous ones live? I can see if you have chickens or rabbits or some other little critters that the snakes may be preying on, but otherwise, it is just sad to see people blasting them for the sake of blasting them. Kinda disgusting, really.
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EddieWalker
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The honest answer to that is no. I cannot live knowing that there is a snake out there. If I see it, I will do everything in my power to kill it. I realize this is not healthy or rational, but I'm same with wasps and a few other things. If I see a snake at the back of my property and don't have any way to kill it, I will go back to the house, get a gun and go look for it. Even thought I know it won't be there, I will still feel compelled to make that effort.
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mbrule
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I'm with Eddie. I realize that it is wrong, but I am very afraid of snakes. I jump and scream like a girl when I see them, then compose myself and get some sort of garden tool and kill them!
Around here (Mass) the most I ever see is usually a small garter snake and they still scare me!
Last year one was killed when I was doing some loader work at my Dad's, it was probably 18" long. It scared the **** out of me the following day, even though I had known that it was there and that it was dead. I had to move it to where I would not see it.
So yes I kill every one that I can!
Around here (Mass) the most I ever see is usually a small garter snake and they still scare me!
Last year one was killed when I was doing some loader work at my Dad's, it was probably 18" long. It scared the **** out of me the following day, even though I had known that it was there and that it was dead. I had to move it to where I would not see it.
So yes I kill every one that I can!
CrownHawg
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That's funny! I can see both sides. Some folks just don't like snakes! I for one don't mind them at all. Now spiders! They make me hurt MYSELF!! But I am getting better.
I will dispatch a venomous snake, but don't feel good about it. I had a siding contractor who was installing siding on my house do me a "favor" last summer. He killed a 7' black snake in my backyard that I had seen for several years. I knew this snake was responsible for keeping all the "unwanted" snakes away. Just this spring I have killed 2 small copperheads (again, not proud of it). I was livid at the guy and told him it was my "yard snake". He went out of his way, the snake was way out in my yard and no where near my house. Anyway, I realize that some folks just cannot deal with snakes, and it their right to police their land as they see fit.
Sidwuffler
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I know some of you folks are paranoid weenies, but come on... do you have to shoot every snake? Can't you just take the initiative to learn to identify them and let the non-venomous ones live? I can see if you have chickens or rabbits or some other little critters that the snakes may be preying on, but otherwise, it is just sad to see people blasting them for the sake of blasting them. Kinda disgusting, really.
The one in the photo was endeavoring to creep up on a Bluebird family in one of my nest boxes. I like Bluebirds.
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I know a lady that had an irrational fear of bees. She missed work one day. She said there was a bee in her car, she went bonkers and the next thing she remembers the firemen were cutting her out of her seat belt as she hung upside down in her car in the middle of a cornfield.
I saw a woman absolutely freak out when a cat walked up to her child at a garage sale. I'm talking screaming panic running for you life freak out.
I overcame my fear of bees when I was a little kid. I was eating a PB&J sandwich out on our picnic table and a bee landed on my hands. My mom saw it and told me to hold very still. It flew up and landed on my lips. I was sitting next to a window and could see it in the reflection. It started eating the jelly that was on my mouth. I had to sit there for about all eternity while it crawled all over my face before it had enough Smucker's grape jelly and flew off. Talk about the heeby heebies. :licking:
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Me too. They are tasty. :laughing:
Just kidding. Put an inverted cone of galvanized steel on the post like the state parks and highway departments do. That will keep the snakes out.
polo1665
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I had an experience similar to this when I was about seven years old. I was eating a cookie at the time and the bee landed on it right before I took a bite. Ended up stinging me in the back of the throat. You talk about one screaming little kid, luckily I wasn't allergic.
Never ate another bee after that......too spicy for me
As for snakes, I have never really had trouble with them being around (non-poisonous of course). Killed several water moccasins in the creek behind our house after the Wichita Falls tornado in 1979. Man, they were prolific amongst the debris.
Never could get myself to kill a non-poisonous snake though, they are too rarily seen around my area. I'd prefer the wood rat and mice sightings to be rare.
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Sidwuffler
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I don't know, maybe you could just lay it by your door to scare the rats away!
LOL. Most of em are in DC !