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Snake!
A J Christ
Member Posts: 7,534 ✭
Wife called me at work, she was on the deck and saw a black snake by the house, said it crawled into the heat pump. Told her that under no circumstance try to kill the snake. Don't shoot it or like the last time she saw one, take an ax to it. Wife isn't one to resort to gun fire but was plenty worried for the heat pump.
I'll give it a day or two before firing up that heat pump, give him, or her, a chance to slither out of there and find employment elsewhere.
Hope the weather doesn't get hot.
I'll give it a day or two before firing up that heat pump, give him, or her, a chance to slither out of there and find employment elsewhere.
Hope the weather doesn't get hot.
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you may wind up with a bad smell all summer if it gets shredded inside the pump.
I see black snakes regularly in the shrubs. They are good!
See a shrink. Not rational to kill like that.
The * it ain't!
where i live if a black snake bites you and you don`t get to a hospital and get anti venom you will be dead as a dodo..and like i said, it doesn`t take much venom to kill you either.
Dan:
Our black snakes are not poisonous. Matter of fact they kill and eat the poisonous snakes around. They also dine on rodents, frogs, toads birds, bird eggs, whatever they can catch.
I personally do not like snakes, if I see one up close and it startles me, I will kill it instantly, no matter what it is. If I see one at a distance and think it out, realize that the black snake, king snake and a couple of others are harmless to me and are probably beneficial, I will sort of reluctantly leave them to go about their business.
Our black snakes can be very aggressive and if cornered will fight and bite.
I have snakes all around my place, here's a skin that I found last week near my old shed. It's 70" long, that blue stick is a yard stick!!! I think it's a King snake, while I haven't seen one that big, I've seen plenty in the area. If I ever see this big rascal I'll be sure to pick him up for a photo.
some people pay real top $$$ for shed snake skins in real good condition.
I do kill the copperheads, don't want them biting my pets.
quote:Originally posted by dan kelly
where i live if a black snake bites you and you don`t get to a hospital and get anti venom you will be dead as a dodo..and like i said, it doesn`t take much venom to kill you either.
Dan:
Our black snakes are not poisonous. Matter of fact they kill and eat the poisonous snakes around. They also dine on rodents, frogs, toads birds, bird eggs, whatever they can catch.
I personally do not like snakes, if I see one up close and it startles me, I will kill it instantly, no matter what it is. If I see one at a distance and think it out, realize that the black snake, king snake and a couple of others are harmless to me and are probably beneficial, I will sort of reluctantly leave them to go about their business.
Our black snakes can be very aggressive and if cornered will fight and bite.
Yes we have one Black Snake I worry about !![8D]
Farmer then shot the guy.
[:D]
AKA Rat snakes around here...
after i get over the start, I try and catch 'em. taught my kids about snakes by bringin some in the house and letting them handle them.
kids still laugh about that one green snake that had me running around in circles in the yard. damn, he was fast![:)]
Then I got boy-children.
The boys were probably 8 and 10 years old, and I get the old, "Mom! Come out here!"
I get out to the carport, and I can see at this point that I am being set up. My two little angels smiling like Cheshire cats, hands behind their backs.
I'm thinking at this point, whatever they have to show me, do not recoil, or you will be a target for the rest of your life.
They pull their hands out from behind their backs, and each has a brown garter snake. Normally, I would have shrieked like a little girl, but, instead, I respond with a "OMG! Let me see it!" I grab it, let it coil around my hand, remark on how beautiful it is, the markings, etc..." and hand it back to each respective boy.
Obviously not the response the boys expected. They slunk off like I had just kicked their puppy.
I waited til I was alone in the house to do the "EEEEWWWEEEEBLLLLLLECCCHHHH...!"[:D]
Not sure if you heard but Blacks are supposed to be real afraid of Snakes. From what I learned most are.
Well had a good friend in the Marines he was Black. Stuck a King Snake in his face to scare him. He did the same thing. Took that snake out of my hands and started checking it out.[:(]
Found out later he was kind of strange, did not fit in any of the normal Black Stereotypes.
1st time I heard someone do the old "Hey Bro" he would go off "My mama wasn't your Mama"