[umbagi]

There are also geese, which scare most of the dogs, so the dogs don't mess with the birds.

I'm surprised the skunks aren't afraid of the geese, too. Did you ever see a goose deal with a 5' rattlesnake? If I could have found enough rattlesnakes, I'd be making a good living charging people to watch it!

[Cate]

We only have little water snakes here, about 8 inches long at the most. But over in Helena (about 100 miles away) there are huge rattlesnake dens. We had a friend that used to hunt them. One of my scariest days was having Larry show me a live one in a bag, and it was big. He froze it while still alive and then had it mounted on a display. When Larry died, my fear was that he might have willed us the snake. Thank God he didn't. The soninlaw received the 'gift'.