So they say...."not all snakes are deadly"...yeah, right!

[WCB]

[Jethro]

One of the guys who works for me got bit by a little rattler last weekend. He was cleaning out the flower bed at his house, it was under a rose bush. Just got him with one fang, but it took 14 vials of anti-venom at approximately 10K a pop to make things right. He is fine now, being only 5 minutes from the ER really helped. Not a fun experience for him though.

[76aggie]

They are all cobras!

[Farmdog]

those are my numbers on meds Mary sorry u went thru that!

[MASTERS]

It still freaks me out when they surprise me. Usually weedeating in flip flops and step on, or next to them.

I'll never get used to a snake surprising me, ever.

I'm with ya Dale. I'm not scared of any of them, but don't like any attempted sudden surprise escapes by them.....

[Thumper]

The only wat to ever over come this fear is to get yourself a pet snake. You can start out with a rubber snake at first before getting a Rat Snake. I'm sure members would supply the needed speciems....

[wdtorque]

I read "cottonmouth squirrel" and said What?
Read it again and chuckled.

[DRettele]

Reading that just gives me the heebeejeebees!! I'm not a fan of snakes either and as far as I am concerned this is MY yard and they need to stay the hell out! They know this as I have very loudly informed them of this in the past - usually followed up by birdshot.
Thank goodness for all the road runners, fox and other critters around my place that I have not seen a snake in quite a while.

[BrianL]

Closest I came to death from a snake was from a 6-foot chicken snake. I was shredding pastures and somehow that dang snake manages to get on the tractor and head for my seat. I NEARLY jumped off before realizing the shredder would have run over me.... Then I had to get a 6-foot snake out from under a Massey 1100 seat and that is not easy to do....

[Shane]

Come on, Mary. Surely there's a security camera with video (and no sound).

Glad you made it out unscathed though! I stepped on a 4' long coachwhip at the lease the other day. I didn't break stride though. If he'd wrapped around my leg, it probably would have been different.

But when I walk through a spider web...... I guarantee you that your dance was nothing compared to me trying to get a spider off of me.

[kruppa24]

in the same boat. no snakes for me.

[Krivoman]

I am not scared of snakes at all, but if I stepped on one and it wrapped on my leg I am sure I would break a few bones getting out of there. it is the unexpected that scares me.

[shiner78]

Did they look like this?

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[TxDispatcher]

It still freaks me out when they surprise me. Usually weedeating in flip flops and step on, or next to them.

I'll never get used to a snake surprising me, ever.

I agree...once I know it's there, I have zero problem. But when it takes me by surprise?!? Yeah, that'll get the Ol ticker racing

[Tx_Wader]

I'm so glad you survived the cowardly attack by that snake Mary.