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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/23/2008 12:57:01 AM
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rgod
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I can so relate to this.
Glad to know I'm not alone :)
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/23/2008 8:20:57 AM
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I like to let the little snakes in my yard live...they can eat the roaches and the moles. If I kill the snakes, then I have to kill the bugs and tiny rodents, too. They are better at it than me.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/24/2008 11:46:39 PM
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I like snakes, but not as pets. They eat rodents, gophers, voles, moles, and other vermin, and smaller ones eat insects, so they are very helpful to farmers. I do not see them as creepy-crawly or evil, and some of them are quite beautiful. I will not kill one nor allow anyone else to kill one either. If they are in the wrong place, pick them up with a stick or the pole-end of the rake and move them off to the brush. They ARE God's creatures too, you know.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/26/2008 11:56:15 AM
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No problems with snakes here either. I think they're fun to observe and they serve a useful purpose (I feel the same way about spiders and bats).
I don't mind handling one (although I probably won't pick up a 'wild' one). I don't mind if the boys have one some day. My sister had a few boas and it was no bid deal.
But I won't go out of my way to get one for myself or play with them or anything. There's something kind of alien about them. For a reptile I'd prefer to get a tortoise.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/26/2008 2:09:25 PM
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Snakes in general? meh, I'm neutral. They will usually leave you alone if you leave them alone.
I've had to deal with a few non-poisonous garden varieties and a copperhead here or there, but it was okay. I wasn't scared or repulsed.
However, I will avoid much to stay clear of water moccasins, lovingly referred to as cottonmouths around here - they are very aggressive and very dangerous.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/26/2008 11:04:22 PM
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I used to catch and release Garter and Kingsnakes when I was growing up in So Cal. and I loved being held by my daughter's 5 ft Red Tailed Boa. He had a pretty good grip. She eventually found another home for him where he was able to share an entire room along with two other Boa's.
Now that hubby and I have moved to the deep South, I'm learning about all the little beasties that inhabit the fields and swamps here.
Hey Doinkdom, it sounds like you and I aren't too far apart. I'm lovin the Lowcountry. Are you anywhere near Charleston?
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/27/2008 10:38:24 AM
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doinkdom
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yep...goose creek
 I can't beleive I live in a town called Goose Creek 
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/27/2008 4:14:00 PM
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Dear Humble:
Pets!?!?!?!?!?!??????
Are you outta your ever-loving mind?
The only kind of pet I like is one that cleans and feeds itsself, cleans its home, goes to the store to buy its food, makes appointments at the veterinarian's and visits him/her on a regular basis by itsself.
I'm not so sure snakes are clean. They have a tendancy to make things into food that are not or at least not in my view. They would scare the living daylights out of people in the grocery store and might get stomped on or driven over whilst going to the vet's and how, might I ask would they get around in the snow?
Useless, I say.
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< Message edited by sudden -- 8/27/2008 4:43:35 PM >
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RE: Handling Snakes - 8/30/2008 10:52:09 AM
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You mean like a cat, Sudden? Now I would never have a snake as a pet, although I guess it would be fairly interesting seeing them eat a mouse.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/2/2008 4:03:42 PM
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You mean like a cat, Sudden? Now I would never have a snake as a pet, although I guess it would be fairly interesting seeing them eat a mouse.
Oh Yes! A cat as well. Anything that might call itsself a pet that doesn't look after ittseelf. Got it?
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/3/2008 1:43:10 PM
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I do not dislike snakes. I do not/would not have a snake as a pet.
I have a healthy respect for snakes and I try to eliminate any poisonous ones on the property. I like having the non-poisonous ones around and was very happy when I had a speckled king snake in the hay barn--he kept down the rats and I didn't have to worry about a poisonous snake there as long as he was there. However, I was always very careful to pull down bales so anything on them did not end up on me...
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/6/2008 6:47:58 PM
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humbleinspirit
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Now do snakes or other reptiles for that matter have personalities at all? Just wondering.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/6/2008 10:16:32 PM
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humbleinspirit
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Hi Nicole, now yes that would count! 
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/6/2008 10:33:37 PM
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humbleinspirit
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I didn't realize that those things pee, but then again, of course they do! duh@me.com!
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/8/2008 9:47:32 PM
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I've owned a wide assortment of pets growing up: dogs, cats, birds, fish, rabbits, turtles, lizards, hamsters, snakes and horse.
I've handled snakes the size of a newborn King snake (about 6 inches long and bright blue) to a 17 ft albino Burmese python.
So no I'm not afraid of snakes at all. My mom is, and she used to say "you'd put your head in a lion's mouth".....lol
My fav snakes are corn and milk snakes - they are the prettiest.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/16/2008 12:23:56 AM
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Well I have no pets of any kind, so I satisfy that longing by watching Animal Planet often. The only thing I don't like about snakes is the fact that I was told that poisonous ones have a certain type of pupils and non-poisonous ones have another type of pupils. Well, I'm sorry, honey, but I am not going to walk up to a snake and ask it to show me its eyes so that i can figure out if I should pet it or run!
If someone I trust tells me a snake is not poisonous, then fine: I have no problem with it.
One time, I was on a camp ground in southern Illinois, heading toward the bathroom with my youngest in a stroller, when I saw the cutest little snake sliding across the entrance to the ladies' restroom, toward the only door. Now, southern IL has poisonous snakes. My only choice was to kill that poor little thing and ask questions later, so I did. It was a water moccasin.
That was the same campground where, two years later, my daughter was bitten five times by brown recluse spiders. We nearly lost her.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/20/2008 10:26:40 AM
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humbleinspirit
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Oh my Abiyah, I am glad she turned out ok!
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/20/2008 6:15:53 PM
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Oh, yeah. Me, too. Additionally, my daughter is extremely beautiful -- always has been -- and when I saw her skin just melting away where the bites were, I had no idea what would happen. She was bitten three times on her cheek and twice on her neck. Within a year, though, there wasn't even the slightest scar.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/20/2008 6:28:19 PM
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That's amazing! When I worked for Fish&Wildlife we had a firefighter bitten by a hobo (forest equivalent of a brown recluse) on his leg. They had to remove all the surrounding tissue and scrape his shin bone. I don't think his leg will ever be the same.
'They' tell us there aren't Brown Recluse spiders here, but I have seen them AND I worked with a biologist who once removed one from our office and took it outside (me, I'd'a killed it!) and told me that's what it was. So I don't believe 'them' LOL.
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I'm not scared of snakes unless they are poisonous, but I wouldn't want to hold a really large snake because they aren't very cute. 
