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To: Salamander

holy crap! all twenty-five are boas? I had about a three foot long black snake slither up on my porch the other day. scared the living hellions out of me. Me and snakes can’t peacefully co-exist in my space. He moved on and I hid inside. About three months ago my pest control guy was spraying for termites around the slab of my house and he pulled out a maybe 3 1/2 or 4 foot long white snake from some shrubs, he said it was a king snake or corn snake. I don’t really remember because I was too busy running back inside the house. I paused only long enough to snap a picture of it with my cell phone so I could say look what was in my flower garden and see that same look of horror on other peoples’ faces that was likely on mine. Saw him through the window carrying it to the creek behind my house. With my snake luck, the snake probably crawled right back to his favorite space. One day I will return to that flower garden but right now it is Jumanji land. I just subscribe to that theory that snakes may not always hurt you but they can definitely make you hurt yourself. We have coyotes, vultures, eagles, snakes, possums, racoons, foxes, ducks, deer and we live right in the middle of damn downtown. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!


96 posted on 08/15/2015 5:06:11 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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To: Cats Pajamas
Thanks for your post. I was beginning to think everyone on FR was a snake lover! I'm with you. I had an encounter with a 6 foot rattler when I was about 13 at Scout Camp that sealed my dislike for and fear of snakes forever. Irrational? Probably.

And yet, I return to threads like this. What does that say? I have no idea.
114 posted on 08/15/2015 7:21:34 AM PDT by tenger (Obama will do what he wants because who's gonna stop him?)
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