[CrimsonTidegirl]

Yikes, glad your hubby wasn’t bitten. I would have had a heart attack. In the past several years, I’ve come across several in my backyard. A couple were poisonous. My neighbor was kind enough to come kill them for us. He doesn’t scare easily and he was amused at my hysteria. One night, when I was in high school, I was sitting on my bed doing my homework and I had my bedroom window open because it was warm. One of my cats jumped in my window and, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that he had something in his mouth. I got up to look and he had a snake. I started yelling hysterically and my (then) stepfather killed it. It was a brown rattler.😱😱 For a while after that incident, I kept my window closed, lol. As I stated, I have an irrational, extreme phobia about snakes. I’m very calm when I see mice, lizards or other pests that some women get hysterical over. I can kill a mouse without flinching. But I just can’t stand to even see a snake on tv or in a picture. I have fantasized about moving to New Zealand specifically because they don’t have snakes:)

[Salamander]

A couple were poisonous.

How do you know?

Did you eat them?

[Salamander]

http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/12827/snakes-drain-snake-free-nz-found-aussie-serpents/

Not to mention the yellow bellied sea snakes and banded sea kraits waiting just offshore.

Bon voyage.