Mellow Mullet
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Caught this guy while working in the yard building some monkey poles for display. Just a little garter snake, turned him loose after his photo shoot.
John
Fun With Snakes
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Caught this guy while working in the yard building some monkey poles for display. Just a little garter snake, turned him loose after his photo shoot.
John
Dirty Nails
Shohin
Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?
terry
Yamadori
Had one about that size in the yard last week in Michigan on one of our few sunny days this year. He was so stiff with cold I think I could have pounded him in the ground like a nail. Suspect he has taken to his burrow again, 39 degrees here now.
Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
I am afraid of snakes. If they come close to me, either I run or they end up dead. I know some are not poisonous (even helpful) but I still do not like them. 
Anthony
Imperial Masterpiece
Kitten killed a coral for me two days ago.
Kitten got a big fish as a thank you.
I have horsewhips and constrictors in the yard, but no corals thank you.
Good Day.
Anthony
Kitten got a big fish as a thank you.
I have horsewhips and constrictors in the yard, but no corals thank you.
Good Day.
Anthony
Dav4
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Snakes ( and reptiles in general) are cool. Growing up, I spent my summers catching snakes and frogs when I wasn't fishing the local ponds. It was definitely the beginning of my love and fascination with nature and everything that represents. Whether it was a PO'd water snake as thick as my bicep or a huge willow that had fallen into the pond during a winter storm but continued to live and grow, I was captivated. It's funny...I've lived in GA for almost 4 years now and I'm still hoping to have a big old black rat snake start hanging out in my yard...no luck yet.
Dario, I can understand your fear of snakes. But remember, they are ALWAYS more afraid of you and would much rather never interact with you, either. If you can, live and let live...the world is a better place with things like snakes in it.
Dario, I can understand your fear of snakes. But remember, they are ALWAYS more afraid of you and would much rather never interact with you, either. If you can, live and let live...the world is a better place with things like snakes in it.
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Don Blackmond
Omono
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
I love reptiles. I used to want to be a herpetologist in my youth in the 1970's. Back then I had a collection of boas, pythons, king snakes, copperheads and a few other native species. Was bitten by all of them except the copperhead. The bites were all my fault, not the snakes'.
I occasionally come across one or two snakes when I work on my trees nowadays. I welcome them as they keep the rodent and insect population down--an important thing when winter rolls around and the mouse population gets hungry and starts chewing on overwintering trees.
I once forgot to put on my glasses when working on a juniper a few years back. I grabbed what I thought was a fallen stick lying on the top of the tree. Turned out it was a baby black snake that latched onto my thumb and crapped on me. He knew what he was doing--I immediately dropped him and he exited the vicinity ;-)
I occasionally come across one or two snakes when I work on my trees nowadays. I welcome them as they keep the rodent and insect population down--an important thing when winter rolls around and the mouse population gets hungry and starts chewing on overwintering trees.
I once forgot to put on my glasses when working on a juniper a few years back. I grabbed what I thought was a fallen stick lying on the top of the tree. Turned out it was a baby black snake that latched onto my thumb and crapped on me. He knew what he was doing--I immediately dropped him and he exited the vicinity ;-)
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TheSteve
Chumono
slugs eat leaves
snakes eat slugs
go snakes....
snakes eat slugs
go snakes....
Ron Dennis
Shohin
We moved to the Miami area (Coral Springs) in 1973. My dad who disliked any type of snakes warned me about Coral snakes. Our two older sons were pre-school at the time. I spent the next two years keeping my grass manicured, shrubbery beds weeded and "snake free". Never saw a snake. We were transferred to Winter Park, FL and I thought I could relax. The day we were moving in my sons came running into the house to say there was a snake in the yard. Did not want my sons to see my fear so I killed the snake. Long story short, over the next three months I killed 19 snakes in our yard. Finally took one to our county agent who identified the unwelcome snake as a Pygmy rattle snake. We moved!
Jason_mazzy
Chumono
I had a basement full of boas at one time. Probably 100. I bred boas so we may have 20+ born at once. Boas give live birth.
Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
I don't hunt them and as I said, I try hard to avoid them but if they come to me and I have no choice, sorry.
milehigh_7
Mister 500,000
I love em and so does my oldest son. A few summers ago we were in Sedona and found a garter along the stream, played with it for a bit and let it go.
Later that day we were at slide rock which is up the valley a little and pretty soon my son and his friend came up holding a snake and said, "We found another one!" They got closer and I said, "now it is very important to stay calm and don't let go." They had it at the base of its head. I said "what you have is a baby rattle snake." I said take it far away from the little kids. so they did... Silly kids!
Oh yea it was Mojave Rattlesnake - Crotalus scutulatus! Joy!
Later that day we were at slide rock which is up the valley a little and pretty soon my son and his friend came up holding a snake and said, "We found another one!" They got closer and I said, "now it is very important to stay calm and don't let go." They had it at the base of its head. I said "what you have is a baby rattle snake." I said take it far away from the little kids. so they did...
Silly kids!Oh yea it was Mojave Rattlesnake - Crotalus scutulatus! Joy!
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PaulH
Omono
I really can't understand some people's antipathy toward snakes. Almost every time I go for a run along country roads I see a flattened snake that someone has obviously swerved intentionally onto the shoulder to run over. Inexcusable.
Whenever I see a King Snake or Gopher snake sunning on the road I catch it and bring it home to my garden to go on rodent patrol. Rattlesnakes I relocate the other direction. No reason to ever kill one. Unless you plan to eat it. Grilled rattlesnake is pretty tasty.
Whenever I see a King Snake or Gopher snake sunning on the road I catch it and bring it home to my garden to go on rodent patrol. Rattlesnakes I relocate the other direction. No reason to ever kill one. Unless you plan to eat it. Grilled rattlesnake is pretty tasty.
NewWorldBonsai
Mame
Mellow Mullet
Masterpiece
Nice cypress, you should send it to me, LOL. Same here for an Alabamian, I grew up catching snakes and lizards. A friend and I had lots of aquariums and cages filled withall kinds of critters.
John
John
Erndogy
Mame
Snakes are awesome. I hunted snakes all over SoCal to take pics of them and legally collect a few. I especially like Rosy Boas and Ball Pythons(not local). I breed the Balls successfully but not the Rosys. I kept many different kinds of snakes except for venomous ones like rattle snakes or any other kind with front fangs.
Sadly, and not so sadly, I decided to give them up and my quest for a unique designer Ball Python morph in exchange for the guardianship of our beautiful little girl. And I owe my interest in Bonsai to this also. I needed a hobby I could do from home, since I couldn't go herping or fishing nearly as much as I was able to before two new babies.
I'll tell you what I don't miss... Since I had so many snakes to feed, I breed my own rats and mice also... So my backyard and garage don't smell as bad as they used to anymore..
Ernie
Sadly, and not so sadly, I decided to give them up and my quest for a unique designer Ball Python morph in exchange for the guardianship of our beautiful little girl. And I owe my interest in Bonsai to this also. I needed a hobby I could do from home, since I couldn't go herping or fishing nearly as much as I was able to before two new babies.
I'll tell you what I don't miss... Since I had so many snakes to feed, I breed my own rats and mice also... So my backyard and garage don't smell as bad as they used to anymore..
Ernie
