OK I have been a reptile spe******t for a pet store once, and worked 2 yrs. at an Animal Hosp. that specialized in exotic animals, and yep we had many reptile patients, and we had a pet iguana growing up named Lizzie and I won a blue ribbon in a pet contest for the most "unique pet". So I am ok with rep.'s but Janie your neighbor was a maniac! He deserved your harsh words and worse, it is darned crazy to keep venemous snakes in your home much less with an infant in the house. That guy was simply put, a Jack-Ass and I can see why he made you so angry!

Out in California I once saw a rattlesnake that got run over on the road directly in front of us (immediately after it was hit). The very next vehicle that came along was a van (this van was full of a whole family) and they drove right up to the freshly run over snake opened the side-sliding door yanked up the snake and threw him right into the van! I was aghast, I kept worrying about those little children and what if the snake was only stunned and gained conscienceness and attacked a child! I never understood the stupidity of some folks................

These dummies go out and catch copper heads and other poison snakes and sell them online.
ONe of them had used a catch pole that one of the snakes had struck and had a tiny bit of venom on it. He got it into a cut in his hand and was sick for days.
Atleast the "smarter" one of the two got rid of all of his when he found out his wife was pregnant. The other one..with the cobra still has those and alot more.
I saw a story once where a huge snake was in the plumbing of an apartment building. They tried to coax it out for weeks. It had been one of the residents pets. A few weeks later they smelled something bad and found it dead when they ripped out the plumbing. Residents had dumped every kind of chemical they had down their drains and toilets and killed it.
That is one reason we always keep the toilet lid down! lol.

You know I understand snakes have to eat but this guy got off on the bunny's terror. Pardon my french but he ****ed me off about as bad as I ever have been. I hate snakes.

I'm w/ u janie... I realize snakes are one of God's creatures and all, but God and me are gonna have a talk about some of his bad-calls, one of these days! Snakes totally freak me out! If I'm ever gonna be attacked by a varmint I at least want it to have fur or limbs for me to pull on! Ever try pinning a snake's arm behind it's back? Cripes!

lol.

My Mom would follow a snake for half a mile to kill it.
One time I looked out the kitchen window and she has a hoe chopping quickly at the ground. She had killed a big snake and when she did its babies came out of its mouth where it had swallowed them. She has baby copperheads going every which way. She got them all though.

I was mowing the grass once and was almost down to where Mom's clothes lines were. I saw something long and shiney on the ground and I thought she had dropped something when she hung out clothes. I got closer and saw it move. It was a huge snake. I turned off the mower went in the back door and her and Dad were at the table having coffee. I told them there was a snake under the clothes line let me know when its dead and Ill finish the grass lol. They gave each other this yeah right it gonna be itty bitty look til they stepped on the back porch and saw it. I got Dad the shotgun and he hit it from the porch. Mom finished it off with her trusty hoe lol. We never did know what kind of snake it was. It was really big and brown with yellow like spots. The head on it was really big.

I was mowing another time and saw a snake in the grass. Left mower and told Mom where it was ..once again. She comes back in a few minutes later and reads me the riot act saying it got away and now it will come back. I go oh sure the snake has a little book with addresses and marks each one happily to go back to where he wasnt killed :rolleyes:


You should have seen me the night a possum got after Mom's chickens. Dad sends me to find out what it was. It was a hissing rather ill tempered possum who had gotten himself hung in some chicken wire. I told Dad what it was and he insists I shoot it..It will come back he says :rolleyes:
I shoot at that thing three times...
1st time...BIG BIG hole in chicken pen.
2nd time...Another big hole in same pen.
3rd time....possum had turned to run after getting loose and I hit him right in the rear.
Needless to say the next possum had a rather large window to get the chicken of his choice lol.
I told Dad and he goes where were the chickens during all of this? I said if they were smart they were standing in front of that possum. It was the safest place to be.:o

If you ask me the only good snake is a dead one.

Ha! Great stories, janie! There are no snakes at all in Alaska, and here in Illinois they say we have no poisonous varieties but every now and then you hear of someone who supposedly sights one. When I was a kid we kept beagles in a big pen out back- Dad hunted rabbits using them- the pen was at the very back of our property along a fence bordering a cornfield. Every now and then they'd go crazy howling and baying and we'd run out there and Mom too would always bring her hoe because more times than not it was a big ol' corn-snake had gotten into the dog pen to drink water, eat their food and curl-up and terrorize the dogs by it's mere presence! Yuch!

Also- Mom would never allow us kids to ride in the open back of a pick-up truck (of course police frown on it too!) because she was raised in Arkansas and she suffered an incident once where she and some siblings were in back of a truck riding and as her Dad was driving the truck thru a patch of woods a snake of some sort fell from an overhead tree-branch INTO THE BACK OF THE TRUCK! Her brother- my Uncle Jan- broke his thumb pounding on the rear window of the truck to get his Dad's attention and to get him to pull over! That tale still strikes terror into me today!