Posted on 01/04/2017 7:39:10 PM PST by Rebelbase
YIKES!! My BIGGEST FEAR!!
My father was so petrified of snakes that he joined the Navy in WWII to preclude the possibility of being drafted into the army and having to crawl through snake-infested (as he imagined them) fields.
Until the day he died, if there was a snake shown on a TV show, he couldn't change the channel fast enough.
I'm pretty much the same; I consider you to be very, very brave.
Salamander,
The snake came through the plumbing from the septic system.
Like I said. It was a rural area. We had well water and a septic tank with leach field pipes. It had to come though there, because the toilet seat was down and there was no other way in.
That is the cutest turd ever.
.....making the sign of the cross....
No, where was it abandonded??
I’ve seen quite a few possums, mostly dead on the side of the road. Never seen a soaking wet one. Thanks!
I found this site with some good pictures; I recall the snake swimming below the water surface which would fit the water snake description:
> More likely a brown water snake.
Nope, my dad killed it and brought it with us to the emergency room where they identified it as a moccasin. Plus, it think the 2 big fangs that broke off in my hand could only come from a venomous viper.
I would have commented earlier on this interesting observation, but I was still trying to pick myself up off the floor....
Not really...I did all that for the snake’s sake, not dad.
:D
If he’d seen it, he’d have killed it, with extreme prejudice.
My whole childhood was spent grabbing up every snake I found, much to his horror.
I cannot count the snakes he saw in our yard, then ran into the house to get a gun but when he came back, the snake was “gone”.
I moved really fast, back then.
;)
Cool site, thanks!
Very happy you survived that!
glad you like it. Don’t miss the salamander section-
Well, good job, then. ;-)
Found this intriguing photo last night. :)
Yep, they are.
I remember seeing the world’s first Pied Ball Python at Repticon.
It was for sale at $25,000.
People have no idea how much money new morphs can bring.
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