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Location: North Dakota | Those are so pretty in person! I don't have a problem with snakes at all. We mostly just have Garter snakes around here and I love seeing them. I usually come across a few when riding out in my pasture. My cats enjoy "playing" with them as well. I have one cat that has a set of holes that he checks daily. He will go from hole to hole checking them throughout the day waiting for something to come out...lol. My other cat strolls the barn rafters for pigeons while the other takes care of the gophers and snakes. They are a good team even though I honestly don't really mind the pigeons and defintely don't mind the snakes at all. |
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Location: Montana | I think we need some snakes like that around here. We only purposely run over rattle snakes...but my dad was bit by one a few years back and made him really sick. Around here there is almost something wrong with you if you don't run over or kill a rattle snake. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Learn something new every day. Back home we just call those Black Snakes... I used to relocate them from the hen house to the hay barn all the time... They are very fond of eggs.. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | If more people would actually educate themselves on snakes.....but I won't go there :)
I do respect that many people are terrified of snakes. But I have more reason to be terrified of fellow humans then any snake out there.
That's why I was whining to my husband the other week about snakes. We killed another copperhead. I won't kill any snake unless it's a threat and close to the house/barn/animals. But I also know the more copperheads we have around, the less non venomous snakes we have. And I was whining about it because I WANT snakes in my barn. We can't have a barn cat. Our Aussies murder cats. So hubby brought me home a snake last week. I don't know if he is still around but I turned him loose last week at the barn. |
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| GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
I would have screamed like a girl and peed my pants. Someone probably would have had to call an ambulance because I know I would have hurt myself badly trying to get away!
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | Just Bring It - 2014-05-30 10:36 AM Those are so pretty in person! I don't have a problem with snakes at all. We mostly just have Garter snakes around here and I love seeing them. I usually come across a few when riding out in my pasture. My cats enjoy "playing" with them as well. I have one cat that has a set of holes that he checks daily. He will go from hole to hole checking them throughout the day waiting for something to come out...lol. My other cat strolls the barn rafters for pigeons while the other takes care of the gophers and snakes. They are a good team even though I honestly don't really mind the pigeons and defintely don't mind the snakes at all.
I hate garter snakes for the reason that my idiot dogs seem to think they have to roll where they slithered and then play with the stupid things. My choc. lab will pick them up and throw them up in the air, catch them and repeat.  |
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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | cyount2009 - 2014-05-30 12:26 PM
GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
I would have screamed like a girl and peed my pants. Someone probably would have had to call an ambulance because I know I would have hurt myself badly trying to get away!
I would have probably half way beat myself to death trying to get away from him lol |
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Location: Never in one place long | GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
Oh dear Lord I would DIE!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!! |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
I would have shipped my pants..LO |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | missroselee - 2014-05-29 1:26 PM If more people would actually educate themselves on snakes.....but I won't go there :)
I do respect that many people are terrified of snakes. But I have more reason to be terrified of fellow humans then any snake out there.
That's why I was whining to my husband the other week about snakes. We killed another copperhead. I won't kill any snake unless it's a threat and close to the house/barn/animals. But I also know the more copperheads we have around, the less non venomous snakes we have. And I was whining about it because I WANT snakes in my barn. We can't have a barn cat. Our Aussies murder cats. So hubby brought me home a snake last week. I don't know if he is still around but I turned him loose last week at the barn.
I agree........I have to hold my fingers back everytime I see a post on a snake killing........like is a badge of honor............ |
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Location: your guess is as good as mine | My "resident" rat snake got run over last year, so I've been hoping another would move in. Was feeding Thursday night & heard a rustling in my feed room...looked in the corner behind a couple of containers and had not one but TWO!! They were gone the next morning but hopefully they didn't go too far...  |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | DLV - 2014-05-30 1:17 PM
GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
Oh dear Lord I would DIE!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!
Oh, no!! I don't mind snakes, but I don't want them falling on me! I would have been running around screaming! |
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Location: Kansas | I have many many toads living around my house and barn. When I have a lot of toads I have no spiders or roaches in my basement and not many flies or beetles around the barn. For that reason I kill every snake I see on the place because they feast on my toads. It's all they're interested in and the toads are easy prey. |
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| I just killed a rattle snake yesterday but couldn't get the others because they went in a hole. |
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| We used to have an indigo snake living on the property, not sure if he's still here or not. Haven't seen him in a long time. have a good size rat snake that lives under the feed shed. Any nonvenemous snake is welcome here. We often catch them and hold them a few minutes and then let them go.
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