That's hilarious that boys will be boys. Silly boys. I'm a girl and I like snakes too. That doesn't mean I'm gonna be picking one up anytime soon. Poor little snake. There's other options to convince them to slither out of dodge. Like a broom. 😊 stick.
Good point........I have a hard time, no very hard time dealing with people. My favorite saying is..."I like people I just can't stand em." I must say on that trip in 1 1/2 hours we caught 7 or 8 snakes. California king snakes, Gopher snakes and rattlers. There was lots of show n tell as well as learning and teaching. 1 of the CA king snakes was caught in a campers site. This led to their kids holding the snake and taking pictures as I rattled off as much info as I could. Maybe some or 1 of the points I shared with them would be remembered.
I love to see and hear about people who try to teach other people about possibly the most maligned animals in the world! Here in Jamaica I try at every opportunity. We have critically endangered boas here being chopped up and burnt. Out of ignorance and fear.
Fought a very colorful chicken snake years ago for possession of my young new mom Modern Game bantam (about a pound). She was half in, half out of its gullet, head first. When I grabbed the snake's tail it regurgitated her. I let it go. She was slimed and still. Got the slime off her head and she breathed and I was happy.
Never heard of a Chicken Snake. Lol!
You heard of Google though, eh Tammy?!
Very real snakes. One type in MS is banded yellow and orange. Other name is rat snake. In AR their chicken snakes are black and can get huge. Aggressive. Where I lived, copperheads were everywhere. My cat Flower would lay them out on the path for me to high jump. FYI copperheads smell bad.
That's strange and interesting that you said copperheads smell bad.. I've always heard they smell like cucumber. I've never run across one so I don't know what they smell like at all. I've run across several other types but I've never noticed an oder about them. I did hear that copperheads have an odor though so I don't doubt it a bit.
Definitely not like cuke to me. It's a sharp, foreign smell like nothing else.
I'm not sure if the people that told me that have ever been around a copperhead either. They just repeat what they've heard as if it's a fact. No wonder people just kill snakes if they spot one. There's been too many lies told about them. Even with all the encounters I've had with snakes I've never been bit. Not even once. Many times if I was a snake I'd have bitten me 😊 I've stepped on them, came inches away from stepping on them etc etc etc. if there's a snake laying around in my yard I usually eventually find it. I have so many true snake stories. I used to be terrified of them. I'm not anymore.
If you smell something strange while out in your yard, freeze! 😵💫😳😮
Ok, I heard you! Lol! It's not that bad really. Right. And they only do it if they are nervous, and they are fabulously beautiful...!
I have read it's used for a defense, some desert gecko's do it as well.
Since 7th grade I've said a big no to snakes. I lived in Liberia West Africa for a few years in the early 80's (My dad was retired Coast Guard running the LORAN navigation tower) and had almost daily snake interactions, more like running froms, on trash piles at the international school, embassy housing where my friends lived and ELWA.
I don't fault anyone for not liking snakes. Some of them are literally deadly. Its a valid fear. My problem is with the people who kill all snakes indiscriminately. They kill the beneficial harmless snakes that eat the venomous snakes. That just makes no sense, and it leaves the world worse off every time it happens.
