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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/25/2008 7:20:03 PM
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caringnurse
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What a fun topic for a thread. Just Monday morning my husband gut up to gt ready for the day. He thought he saw something move out of the corner of the eye. He looked under some clothes that were on the floor and nothing. Then he looked in the closet. I'm up on the bed with my feet covered and ready to scream. He then saw it in the corner. He told me to get something. I went and got his pliers. He would always catch the the garder snake behind the head and throw it out. (had them before) He told me to get my cane which I did. He pined it to the floor and had the snake with the pliers and cane. It was BIG FOR A GARDER snake. I grew up in OK and we had bull snakes bigger but I have never seen one this big. I HATE SNAKES.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nancy Regier
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/26/2008 4:49:59 PM
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Trust me. Garder snakes can get pretty big. I've seen one that was almost 6 feet long. Granted, that was the biggest one I've seen.
I guess the Lord knew I was going to end living where there were a lot of snakes. We have a lot of garder snakes around here, and when I get very far out of town, I see rattlers on the road and various places. There are some places where I have to wear snake proof pants in order to walk there. If someone had told me when I was younger, that I would even own a pair of snake proof pants, I would have laughed myself silly.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 12:49:41 AM
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Trust me. Garder snakes can get pretty big. I've seen one that was almost 6 feet long.
YOU have GOT to be KIDDING! I didn't know THAT!!!
Okay: are they "garder" snakes, "garter" snakes, or "gardener" snakes?
My son was biking in eastern Washington when he had his friend saw the ground moving beside the road. They backed their motorcycles up, got off, and went to see what in the world was going on, and the whole area was COVERED with (what I used to think were) garter snakes! They couldn't even see the ground, and it was a huge area, just COVERED! Apparently mating season.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 12:58:21 AM
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He was lucky they weren't rattlers. We have quite a lot of them here in Eastern WA. Which would be why I live by a Rattlesnake Mt, lol.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 1:02:06 AM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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OH!! Don't even go there! Yeeeouch!
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 8:16:53 PM
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I grew up with scorpions being around a lot. You know the old saying about scorpions? 
Actually I don't Lisa, what do they say about scorpions?
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 8:23:08 PM
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Oh, kinda like mice then too?
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 10:39:16 PM
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Jenny-Fair & Bzirk
Do scorpions run fast and attack, so that's their danger, or is their danger that they are not seen, so one could be injured?
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Abiyah,
It's garter snake instead of garder snake. I've never looked that up before because I don't write things about them too often. LOL!
Also, my husband corrected me that the garter snake we saw was only 4 feet long.
Oh. That's different. Just 4 feet long.
Big deal, then.
YYYEEEEEEOOOOUCH!!! Anything over a foot and a half is way too big for me!
That tiny cottonmouth I killed was only a little over a foot long. And it was cute. But it was still a cottonmouth. Or water moccasin. I was told that it was both.
And regarding garter snakes, I never knew if they were garter snakes or garden snakes until now. And when I saw them called garder snakes, i wondered if they were guarder snakes. Shows what I know.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 11:28:15 PM
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I have never been attacked by a scorpion, but I think mainly they just defend themselves. You know they are arachnids, like spiders. When I was in Guatemala we were told, 'if you have no moral qualms, smack them with your shoe or another blunt object' LOL. But I never saw one while I was there!
My roomate, a tortured older lady named Rachel, took the pictures off the walls and hung her shoes on the nails. Then she turned to me and said, 'You don't think they can climb, do you?' She was not happy when I said they probably could! From then on, she made me go in the cabin first and inspect it before she would come in.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/27/2008 11:44:39 PM
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I have never seen them in a zoo. Probably, though, they don't have lions in zoos in Africa, so why would we have scorpions in zoos in the northwest?
Which makes me wonder...if you go to a zoo in Africa, what do they have there? Pinto ponies? Bison? Wolves?
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/28/2008 5:40:38 AM
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I've seen a boa constrictor at the Museum of Science a real long time ago.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/28/2008 10:38:27 AM
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I don't even go in the snake house at the zoo. As curious as I am about a lot of things, I have no curiosity about that -- at least not in the last 20 years.
Abiyah,
Scorpions mostly do damage because someone stumbles on them. When I was a kid my mother used to take us out to hunt fossils and sharks teeth, and one time I was digging for some on the side of a limestone hill, and a scorpion got me on the arm. It just got sore and made me a feel a little bad, but it obviously didn't kill me. The worst damage was falling backward down the hill in fright.
As for water moccasins (cotton mouths or whatever you want to call them), I cannot stand them. They are all over the place in the state my parents are from (Arkansas). My family has a farm there with a stock tank and a lake, and you have to be really careful of the water moccasins. I've never been bitten by one, but when I was 12, I was fishing in the stock tank and one was nearby and it scared me so badly I took off running and hooked my leg. Ow!!!! That barb on the back of a hook is murder. Still have a scar on the middle of my leg. It might have been better to be bitten. Nah, on second thought.
When I was a kid, our dogs would go with us to the farm, and one of our dogs liked to get into the wild blackberry bushes. The cotton mouths love those things, and consequently our dog was bitten on several occasions. He would swell up some, but the vet said he would be fine. I don't think people fare so well.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/28/2008 12:54:02 PM
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So water moccasins and cotton mouths really are the same snake? That's confusing. And I am amazed that a dog can survive their bite! I thought they were absolutely deadly.
Re the scorpion, is it worse than a wasp or yellow jacket stink? I know yellow jacket stings, having been stung five times one evening.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/29/2008 4:24:53 PM
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Yes water moccasins and cotton mouths are the same snake.
Very dangerous....very, especially in or around water.
They will actually attack you, as in run/swim after you purposefully to bite you. Most snakes just want to be left alone...Moccasins are very aggressive. They'll climb right inside a boat. They totally creep me out.
Only snake I'm really afraid of.
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/29/2008 4:52:06 PM
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I stopped canoeing on a local river that has many parts with black water just because of the snakes.
Like Bzirk said, they really do just fall outta the trees. 
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RE: Handling Snakes - 9/30/2008 6:26:01 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Wow. When I have moved various places, one of the very first things I have checked up on, before moving, is whether or not there are poisonous snakes in the area. I am a complete chicken about poisonous snakes. You people who put up with them? You've sure got guts!
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RE: Handling Snakes - 10/1/2008 7:05:14 AM
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But we're happy to be here because we know we're where the Lord wants us.
That makes all the difference in the world.
My husband has a story about when he and his brother were stupid teens. They were in a canoe chasing and harassing a cottonmouth, then it turned and chased them!
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