Motherf*****g snake!

[dou44]

shoot it dead then come closer to see what it is.

[CLC]

OhShoot, yes I am a woman and Jamie, I am 51! Believe me man, you don't want to see my boobs! LOL But I got a sweet 44 I'll let you shoot!

[Guest Jamie]

I hope some of y'all have a nice thick layer of waxed paper on the seats of your chairs...

We have far more varieties of non-venomous snakes in the U.S. than venomous ones... so the odds of you running into a dangerous snake to begin with is pretty low.

And if you always watch where you put your hands, feet, and ass, you'll never even have to worry about the venomous ones.

Pretty sad when people are terrified of what's basically no more than a head and a tail.

[Guest Jamie]

OhShoot, yes I am a woman and Jamie, I am 51! Believe me man, you don't want to see my boobs! LOL But I got a sweet 44 I'll let you shoot!

Wasn't so much a desire to see 'em as letting you know that we simply have no way of telling you even have 'em from just your screen name or posts.

[JAB]

Oh, no! Some of you would consider killing a snake? Heaven forfend!

Seriously, though, I don't go out looking for snakes to 'assassinate'. In fact, I generally leave them alone but I figure that if the worst thing I ever do in this world is kill some damned belly crawler then I'll be doing just fine. Oh, I kill flies, ticks and the occasional rat, too - guess I'm going to hell.

Edited April 18, 2011 by JAB

[Guest Jamie]

Oh, no! Some of you would consider killing a snake? Heaven forfend!

Seriously, though, I don't go out looking for snakes to 'assassinate'. In fact, I generally leave them alone but I figure that if the worst thing I ever do in this world is kill some damned belly crawler then I'll be doing just fine. Oh, I kill flies, ticks and the occasional rat, too - guess I'm going to hell.

So you're saying that killing or eliminating something because of an irrational fear that it might somehow develop the ability to maybe do you harm is okay? Even though it's not actively causing you aggravation or harm?

Interesting...

BTW... I'm quite sure that the only real Hell is the ones that we make for ourselves through our own foolishness....

[JAB]

So you're saying that killing or eliminating something because of an irrational fear that it might somehow develop the ability to maybe do you harm is okay? Even though it's not actively causing you aggravation or harm?

Interesting...

BTW... I'm quite sure that the only real Hell is the ones that we make for ourselves through our own foolishness....

As I said, I don't go hunting them and I generally leave them alone. That said, if there is one in a location where I don't want it to be (like, in the house or if the egg-stealing bastard is stretched out beside my chicken coop - both of which actually happened last summer) then it is causing me aggravation so, yeah, I have no problem eliminating it as I would any other pest or vermin. If it is on our property and is a poisonous snake then, yeah, it is causing me aggravation (and there is the possibility, at least, that it could cause harm) and I would no more hesitate to kill it than I would to swat a mosquito.

Hell, there are people who actively seek out coyotes to kill - some even probably travel some distance to do so. Coyotes eat rats, mice and other vermin and, as long as they aren't at someone's house they probably aren't causing that person any aggravation or harm but I don't see anyone getting all worked up about them being killed. Some folks have varmint rifles specifically so they can kill groundhogs. A groundhog is just about the most docile creature around. They eat grass, for the love of Pete, but some folks make a hobby of killing them (and not because they are threatening their garden, etc.) I don't but I haven't seen any posts where anyone is upset over that, either. So, I just happen to include 'snakes' in the list of animals I consider to be pests, vermin and the like. As I said I won't go out looking for snakes to kill, won't kill them 'in the wild' and often/usually leave them alone when they are in the yard as long as they aren't too close to the house, aren't a poisonous variety, etc. I actually think green garter snakes are pretty and have held/played with non-poisonous snakes. I'm not especially afraid of them (unlike my wife who is phobic - part of the reason I will eliminate them if they are too close to the house) but I'm not going to lose any sleep over killing one, either.

Edited April 19, 2011 by JAB

[Oh Shoot]

....Hell, there are people who actively seek out coyotes to kill - some even probably travel some distance to do so. Coyotes eat rats, mice and other vermin and, as long as they aren't at someone's house they probably aren't causing that person any aggravation or harm but I don't see anyone getting all worked up about them being killed. Some folks have varmint rifles specifically so they can kill groundhogs. A groundhog is just about the most docile creature around. They eat grass, for the love of Pete, but some folks make a hobby of killing them (and not because they are threatening their garden, etc.)...

Yeah, I feel much the same about these two species myself; lived in the boonies for many years, but never saw fit to kill the ole woodchucks; didn't see 'yotes around our mountain turf, but wouldn't have killed them either unless I had had firsthand significant harm from them of some sort.

Beware, though, you're about to get a barrage of Aggressively Charging Killer Whistlepig sagas.

- OS

[Guest Jamie]

As I said, I don't go hunting them and I generally leave them alone. That said, if there is one in a location where I don't want it to be (like, in the house or if the egg-stealing bastard is stretched out beside my chicken coop - both of which actually happened last summer) then it is causing me aggravation so, yeah, I have no problem eliminating it as I would any other pest or vermin. If it is on our property and is a poisonous snake then, yeah, it is causing me aggravation (and there is the possibility, at least, that it could cause harm) and I would no more hesitate to kill it than I would to swat a mosquito.

Hell, there are people who actively seek out coyotes to kill - some even probably travel some distance to do so. Coyotes eat rats, mice and other vermin and, as long as they aren't at someone's house they probably aren't causing that person any aggravation or harm but I don't see anyone getting all worked up about them being killed. Some folks have varmint rifles specifically so they can kill groundhogs. A groundhog is just about the most docile creature around. They eat grass, for the love of Pete, but some folks make a hobby of killing them (and not because they are threatening their garden, etc.) I don't but I haven't seen any posts where anyone is upset over that, either. So, I just happen to include 'snakes' in the list of animals I consider to be pests, vermin and the like. As I said I won't go out looking for snakes to kill, won't kill them 'in the wild' and often/usually leave them alone when they are in the yard as long as they aren't too close to the house, aren't a poisonous variety, etc. I actually think green garter snakes are pretty and have held/played with non-poisonous snakes. I'm not especially afraid of them (unlike my wife who is phobic - part of the reason I will eliminate them if they are too close to the house) but I'm not going to lose any sleep over killing one, either.

There's a big difference in killing something because it's causing a problem and killing it simply because it is what it is.... which is what a few people on this thread have advocated. "Only good snake is a dead snake" and all that.

Concerning coyotes, I've seen a few around here, but have killed only one. And technically, it committed suicide. ( It ran out in front of my car one morning, when I was on the way to work. Tore up part of the air dam under the bumper, and pissed off the city officer who had to move it's dead carcass out of the road. )

Oh, and up until a couple of years ago, there was a groundhog living out in my side yard, near the "turnaround" in my driveway. It was there for many years before if finally disappeared. Never felt the urge to shoot it. But then, I don't have horses or cattle that could break their legs stepping in a groundhog burrow.

Anyway, your sarcastic tone earlier seemed to indicate that killing a snake for no real reason at all was okay by you and simply no big deal. Glad to see that's not quite the case.

As for you considering them pests or vermin... well, that's pretty much how I feel about most people.

It's not any more legal to shoot them, most of the time, than it is a snake though....

P.S. I got a major case of the giggles the time the wife came back to the house without the mail she went to fetch, due to there being a big ol' blacksnake laying across the driveway.

Edited April 19, 2011 by Jamie

[Guest colrmccoll]

Here is our pet garter snake that hangs around every year at our pond. My wife has chased him with the lawn mower, unsuccessfully. Hopefully I have convinced her to tolerate him. The frog is a Southern Tiger Frog and if they get sufficiently large they can catch and eat Robin sized birds. I have pics but they are prints not digital.

Edited April 19, 2011 by colrmccoll

[xRUSTYx]

anyone live on property that has quite a few copperheads/rattlers? if so, has anyone tried introducing a few black snakes to your property to see if that takes care of the venomous snake population?

[Oh Shoot]

Here is our pet garter snake that hangs around every year at our pond.

Here's link, didn't show in Firefox, you had IMG tags instead of just HTTP, not sure how you can reference single pic on FB to make it show as image:

Pet garter snake eating a bird eating frog | Facebook

I have pics but they are prints not digital.

They tell me that flatbed scanners and digital cameras will record photographic prints.

- OS

[bajabuc]

a long time ago...most of my tales start out like that...I was mowing the yard and spooked a 2 or 3 foot blue racer...said snake being instantly picked up by my 5 year old son...they seemed to get along so I said, "go show that to your mother." When the poor kid calmed down he said, "she's standing on the chair,... she shreeked so loud I threw the snake and he landed in her lap. You better go find him." There's a lot more to this but this is a family type website.

[dralarms]

a long time ago...most of my tales start out like that...I was mowing the yard and spooked a 2 or 3 foot blue racer...said snake being instantly picked up by my 5 year old son...they seemed to get along so I said, "go show that to your mother." When the poor kid calmed down he said, "she's standing on the chair,... she shreeked so loud I threw the snake and he landed in her lap. You better go find him." There's a lot more to this but this is a family type website.

As Paul Harvey would say " I want to hear "the rest of the story" LOL

[Oh Shoot]

.....I was mowing the yard and spooked a 2 or 3 foot blue racer......

JFYI, ya might need to modify that yarn for credibility .. no blue racers in TN. Or out west.

- OS

Edited April 20, 2011 by OhShoot