I'm not overly fond of snakes - Something a friend of mine found out when he handed his ball python to me and told me to hold on to it while he cleaned out it's cage I tend to be cautious around anything with long sharp teeth lol...

My phobia is bees, wasps, yellowjackets - anything with yellow & black stripes on it - had bad experiences with them in childhood... I'm OK with spiders, though, which is my wife's phobia so we have an arrangement set up to where she takes care of the yellow/black flying demons for me and I take care of the spiders for her... Although, lately, I've been taking care of the hornets myself since they insist on making nests in/around my Fury...

A co-worker of mine has a fear of balloons (globophobia) - first time I'd even heard of that fear - she can't stand to be anywhere near them - you should hear what she does when one pops!

 

When I was a toddler I brought a pregnant garter snake into the house.
You can guess what happened next.

To this day more than 40 years later my mother will not forgive me.

 

Garter? Oh f no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let me put it this way , it is being investigated how they got into apartment. I wish it were a garter and they feel this may explain my missing moose. They think he found the nest in the rocks cliffs directly behind motel.

The parking lot critters are scarlet snakes. Usually on found in Floyd County. But they have shown up here. So authorities are having fun with that one.

 

Hey Moose... so what kind is the one in the first picture? It's really hard to tell. As far as the second one.... a scarlet sounds right now that I took into consideration it's white belly. It's like a kingsnake or milksnake though. Harmless. And still gorgeous. They stay quite small too. Only about 20 inches full grown. And definately don't eat humans. But really.... I'm dying to know what kind the first one is. Clue me in.

 

Snake Plissken was a bad a$$ ****.

 

LOL but he did escape didnt he?

We found a nest of Timber rattlers behind motel. JOY JOY JOY! They had made a home in the rocky ledges directly behind the motel. They were just to the right of the picture I am reposting. It seems they like rocky, discreet areas and the rear of motel provided just that. It is quiet with no traffic, people etc. One of the scouts actually found 5 on the actual mountain itself. but they can stay the ones under my windows may not so they are relocated to nearby forest land. They believe the young ones got into apartment through window that does not have screen that I left open for cats as there is a slither mark in mud under window in drainage channel and some mud venturing up wall.

My apartment has been cleared as well as the entire motel. We shot concrete into small cave openings in rocks so now there will be no more places for anything to hide in this vicinity. There have never been this many snakes near motel in its 62 year history nor has there ever been any in the motel itself.

They feel the scarletts were brought in under tenants boyfriends van. He just bought conversion van from a family in Floyd county and scarletts have been found in the parking area near where he parks. It is a theory.

I dont care how people love snakes or feel they are so great and wonderful. I am not one to let them live. Just my personal feeling. Ill take a snake out in a heartbeat. Big little whatever there will be no snake survive should I find it.

 

If that was a Timber Rattler then I don't blame you for getting rid of it, especially when you have customers, etc. It just didn't look like any type of rattler in the photo (as much as I could see it anyway) especially with the tail being so long, slender and pointed. Usually it is more blunt since it is the start of the first button on the rattle. But anyway.... we all have our reasons for doing things. That's what makes us human. Shoot, I got cussed out on a forum once for mentioning that I had killed a centipede in my home. And I'd do it again too.

 

Ironically,Ball Pythons tend to very docile,and rarely bite handlers.....I get more nervous than is necessary if i have to climb around extremely steep terrain,i fell down a rocky cliff about 10-15 feet into a lake about 30 years back,and to this day if while fishing i need to traverse a steep rocky slope along a river or lake,i get a little tense,even if footing is secure......

 

No the timbers were in the back in the rock ledges. 2 had come into the bathroom from an open window.
My office critter was identified as a bull snake.
The final snake count from a crew of twenty amazing brave big balled guy and one brass balled female were 5 TR's, 6 bulls and 8 scarlets. They are finding a lot on the mountain. only one more month only one more month.... Now they are trying to figure out why the multi species were in immediate same zone.

If I found a centipede I would kill it without hesitation. This looking right out bathroom window.

want to know some snake FYI? To get rid of snakes DO NOT use moth ***** or steel wool. Why? Both will actually cause more aggression. The gas emitted from the moth ***** confuses them and sets off their "heat" sensors. The lose their way in a sense which miffs em off. The steel wool hurts and causes erratic stimuli causes their anger to rise. They said moth ***** are the worst. You will have an even more pissed of reptile. Jack Monroe the leader of this group stated that it is like the incredible hulk.

 

Oh my gosh ... look at all that green by your place. Man. ... I'm sooo jealous!!!!!!!!

As far as the snakes... OK... a bull snake sounds about right. Actually they are really cool. They will just hiss and vibrate their tails to sound tough at times, but I'd own one in a minute (and have). They sure do eat a lot of mice though, which is good in the wild, but not for my pocket book. Anyway... I agree ... you sure have been getting your share of the critters. And you must have some pretty nice accommodations for them to want to find a winter home there. Maybe you should invest in some King snakes. They eat other snakes, including the Timbers. The Scarlets eat snakes too, but they'd have to be small since Scarlets don't get very big. Oh, and baby rattlers can be more dangerous than grown ones for two reasons ... they are small and know it and are extra quick to strike to save their butts ... and when they do they give full doses of venom for they aren't very good in regulating the amount yet.

When I first moved here I had several centipede's that had taken up residency. It was my first experience with them and they really freaked me out the way they move. And if you cut one in half both ends keep on running. The one I mentioned on the forum was HUGE. Like about 6 or 8 inches long and an inch wide. If you feel about snakes like I feel about centipede's..... then I understand why you freaked out. The peeing the pants thing though ... well, I lucked out there. I was sitting on the toilet when one fell from the ceiling and landed on my head. So my pants were safely around my ankles when I expressed my fear.

I'm wondering why FTE isn't sending me emails for this thread and yet I get them for other threads I'm watching.

 

I caught a copperhead in an old paint can when I was little...

My mom was not very happy with me!

 

Lol, I can kinda relate. One time I was back on the farm and I went down by the bigger of the two horse ponds. There was an old coffee can in the field and I don't think I was any more than 15 or 16. It was smashed and rusted, so I figured I'd pick it up and take it up to the house so that it wouldn't screw up the mower.

Well, there was a cottonmouth inside. Scared the absolute hell out of me as it dropped out and ran for the water. I'm glad I didn't get bitten a half mile from the house, but I sure as heck don't pick up anything in the field anymore without kicking it first, lol.

 

http://franksemails.com/pics/snake-a...ara-mine-site/

 

SNAKE PHOBIA WARNING
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/an...are_feared.htm
SNAKE PHOBIA WARNING

 

Another snake story here in the US. Not as bad as the others seen here.
http://news.aol.com/article/400-poun...-from%2F667516