Snakes !!!
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Thomas
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We have those buugger way up here as well,and old foundation are there best hiding spots.
When the snow snakes are follow by snow flee's little later on.
When the snow snakes are follow by snow flee's little later on.
PaulT
Gold Member
Is that the African Laden snipe, or the unladen...AGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
StoneHeartFarm
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The African Laden Snipe? They got snipe in Africa? I wonder how they hunt them over there. They don't have a lot of paper bags. /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif
SHF
SHF
Theeeerreee Baaaackkkkk
This time a harmless Green Tree Snake
Unfortunately didn't look too harmless when 3' of brown/yellow snake is slithering around just in front of me as I stepped down into the garage on my way to the car.
So I had to whack this one, just to find out what it was.
Honestly, I don't see the need to kill them, but in the heat of the moment it is hard to tell what it is. Sure wasn't the last one I identified and was bigger, and WAS IN THE HOUSE so I guess his number was up.
Yuk
Scary thing is we keep all the doors in the garage closed, and open them for only short periods, so now it has me worried that maybe they get in under the doors???
Aggghhhhhh /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif
This time a harmless Green Tree Snake
Unfortunately didn't look too harmless when 3' of brown/yellow snake is slithering around just in front of me as I stepped down into the garage on my way to the car.
So I had to whack this one, just to find out what it was.
Honestly, I don't see the need to kill them, but in the heat of the moment it is hard to tell what it is. Sure wasn't the last one I identified and was bigger, and WAS IN THE HOUSE so I guess his number was up.
Yuk
Scary thing is we keep all the doors in the garage closed, and open them for only short periods, so now it has me worried that maybe they get in under the doors???
Aggghhhhhh /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif
Egon
Epic Contributor
Neil:
Was this in the morning when you saw the snake??????
Egon
Was this in the morning when you saw the snake??????
Egon
JBX
Bronze Member
FYI- If the snakes are not poisonous to you, why bother with them? They might be doing you a service by helping keep the rodent, frog, insect populations down. You also might need to pay more attention to critters that do kill a lot of people every year, like bees, wasps and spiders and such. Very few people (if any) die from snake bites in the US each year, but many people die from insect stings.
Happy
yes my thoughts exactly, but the problem is there are a lot of really bad snakes around here too. And I don't want to get up close and personal with every snake just to check if it is a good or a bad snake.
My wife wouldn't ever go into the garage if I were to say to her "Oh by the way dear, there is a snake in the garage which I left there. I am not sure if it is a tree snake or a venomous Brown Snake but I thought I'd leave it there anyway"
Cheers
yes my thoughts exactly, but the problem is there are a lot of really bad snakes around here too. And I don't want to get up close and personal with every snake just to check if it is a good or a bad snake.
My wife wouldn't ever go into the garage if I were to say to her "Oh by the way dear, there is a snake in the garage which I left there. I am not sure if it is a tree snake or a venomous Brown Snake but I thought I'd leave it there anyway"
Cheers
Jeff396
Veteran Member
Subject: Snakes are dangerous
> >Status:
> >
> >Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not
> >rattlesnakes. A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants,
> >
> >and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them
> >indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a
> >little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when
> >it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
> >
> >She let out a very loud scream.
> >
> >The husband who was taking a shower ran out into the living room naked to
> >
> >see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.
> >
> >He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About
> >that time the family dog came and cold nosed him in the butt. He thought
> >the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he had a heart
> >attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded
> >him on the stretcher and started carrying him out. About that time the
> >snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician
> >saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke
> >his leg and why he is in the hospital.
> >
> >The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called
> >on a neighbor man. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed
> >himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.
> >Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa
> >in relief. But in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions,
> >where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the
> >
> >snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her laying
> >
> >there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.
> >The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery
> >store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her
> >husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him
> >out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches. An
> >ambulance was again called and it was determined that the injury required
> >
> >hospitalization.
> >
> >The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor
> >lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed he had
> >been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back a small
> >bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat. By now
> >the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the
> >whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about
> >to arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain how it all
> >happened over a little green snake.
> >
> >They called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing
> >wife. Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One
> >of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and
> >hit the leg of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. The table
> >
> >fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke, it started
> >a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames
> >and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who
> >startled, jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car
> >swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car and set it on
> >fire.
> >
> >Meanwhile the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house
> >
> >was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving
> >fire truck had started raising his ladder as they were halfway down the
> >street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the
> >electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten square city block
> >area.
> >
> >Time passed ---------------
> >
> >Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was rebuilt, the
> >police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world ----------
> >
> >About a year later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a
> >cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they
> >
> >should bring in their plants for the night.
> >
> >She shot him. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Jeff
> >Status:
> >
> >Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not
> >rattlesnakes. A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants,
> >
> >and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them
> >indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a
> >little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when
> >it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
> >
> >She let out a very loud scream.
> >
> >The husband who was taking a shower ran out into the living room naked to
> >
> >see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.
> >
> >He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About
> >that time the family dog came and cold nosed him in the butt. He thought
> >the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he had a heart
> >attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded
> >him on the stretcher and started carrying him out. About that time the
> >snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician
> >saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke
> >his leg and why he is in the hospital.
> >
> >The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called
> >on a neighbor man. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed
> >himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.
> >Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa
> >in relief. But in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions,
> >where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the
> >
> >snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her laying
> >
> >there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.
> >The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery
> >store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her
> >husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him
> >out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches. An
> >ambulance was again called and it was determined that the injury required
> >
> >hospitalization.
> >
> >The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor
> >lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed he had
> >been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back a small
> >bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat. By now
> >the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the
> >whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about
> >to arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain how it all
> >happened over a little green snake.
> >
> >They called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing
> >wife. Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One
> >of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and
> >hit the leg of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. The table
> >
> >fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke, it started
> >a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames
> >and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who
> >startled, jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car
> >swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car and set it on
> >fire.
> >
> >Meanwhile the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house
> >
> >was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving
> >fire truck had started raising his ladder as they were halfway down the
> >street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the
> >electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten square city block
> >area.
> >
> >Time passed ---------------
> >
> >Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was rebuilt, the
> >police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world ----------
> >
> >About a year later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a
> >cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they
> >
> >should bring in their plants for the night.
> >
> >She shot him. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Jeff