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manfredo

manfredo

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cannabineer said:
Within two weeks of moving into my Mojave manor, I found ( caught and released) these two unexpected guests.View attachment 4682976View attachment 4682978
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That's probably what keeps me from living in the southwest. I have gotten better about snakes. I normally spare their lives when I can these days, especially just little garter snakes is mainly what we have, and I've seen a few milk snakes. I guess it's all what you grow up with and get use too. Florida kids swim with gators at night. Think of people in the jungle, or Florida, lol, with those massive Burmese pythons, living in trailers or shacks..Yep, Alaska is looking better and better!
 
Bareback

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DarkWeb said:
Snakes and sewer pipes......
















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manfredo said:
Trying to cheer me up are you?? lol, well I put the snake stinky stuff in the "snake den", and left the access door open to outside so he can get out....but I put a sticky trap on the exit so if anything does come in or out, I'll know...and I sprinkled the deterrent all around the house, where I found 2 more small snake skins along the way. It's probably long gone, and I feel better that there was only 1 skin in there.


There was a really old guy that lived in the apartment next to mine.... he had a snake give birth behind his toilet, in his 2nd floor apartment. The snake was probably living in there for a while...and it was disgusting. I'm surprised his cats didn't kill it actually!

About the first time I see a snake IN my house, it won't be good. And trust me, I'm looking...lol

Hooked my new TV antenna up, and I get 10 channels just in the living room...Hopefully tomorrow I can mount it on the roof and maybe pick up a few more.
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I wasn’t going to tell a story about how that has happened to us twice. And also I was a partner in a plumbing company for about 10 years and when we would use the sewer camera it was not uncommon to see snakes in the pipe ( in Florida) because the sewer is full of mice and frogs ( food sources) .
 
manfredo

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I lived in Florida for a year after high school and hated that I couldn't go hiking there, without fear of being eaten. Even going into the back yard to retrieve clothes off the line after dark was risky. I'm sure lots of people have snakes crawling around in their attics and crawl spaces, regularly, and have no clue.

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Gonna head up on the roof here soon and try to find a good spot for the antenna....and hope for a quiet Monday!!
 
Bareback

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Sorry to seem like I poking fun at your fear of snakes.... I wasn’t trying to make lite of it. I was going share some stories but had company pull up just as I started to reply .

Here in the Deep South snakes are everywhere and during the winter you can bet your ass they’ll be under any house. And summers too.

One story and I’ll move on. When I was 16 I was working for a guy who would do about anything to a house for about anyone. Well one day I was under a church in Crawford Al one of those old one room shotgun buildings. We had added a bathroom and I was soldering so copper in about 12” of crawl space when a black runner ( snake) slithered right up to me .... well I saw it coming and as it got within arm’s reach I simply lowered the torch to it’s nose and that mofo when to rolling and flipping and hitting the joists as it was headed out the other way. It made a helluva racket and freaked out the old dude I was working for. He asked what was up and I told him.... it was a good laugh and a fun memory.
I have hundreds of snake stories from job sites some are not as funny as this one.
 
raratt

raratt

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Bareback said:
Sorry to seem like I poking fun at your fear of snakes.... I wasn’t trying to make lite of it. I was going share some stories but had company pull up just as I started to reply .

Here in the Deep South snakes are everywhere and during the winter you can bet your ass they’ll be under any house. And summers too.

One story and I’ll move on. When I was 16 I was working for a guy who would do about anything to a house for about anyone. Well one day I was under a church in Crawford Al one of those old one room shotgun buildings. We had added a bathroom and I was soldering so copper in about 12” of crawl space when a black runner ( snake) slithered right up to me .... well I saw it coming and as it got within arm’s reach I simply lowered the torch to it’s nose and that mofo when to rolling and flipping and hitting the joists as it was headed out the other way. It made a helluva racket and freaked out the old dude I was working for. He asked what was up and I told him.... it was a good laugh and a fun memory.
I have hundreds of snake stories from job sites some are not as funny as this one.
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My wife has herpetophobia, she freaks out over snakes. She thinks it is from when she was little and some bigger kids were chasing her around with walnut worms and trying to put them on her.
 
Metasynth

Metasynth

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jerryb73 said:
Is this a choice made by snake? Like I’m gonna bite the hell out of ya but probably not kill you.
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Venomous snakes have a finite amount of venom they can use before having to produce more, and I think it takes a while to produce it. So yeah, they can selectively inject the amount they want.

A dry bite is a warning, like “whoa buddy, you almost stepped on me, watch where you’re going”. But the snake probably doesn’t wanna waste venom that it could use (or might need) to kill prey or actually defend itself against an attacking animal

I was always taught that the baby rattlesnakes can be the most dangerous, because babies can’t yet control the function of how much venom to inject, and blow their whole wad in one go.
 
raratt

raratt

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Metasynth said:
Venomous snakes have a finite amount of venom they can use before having to produce more, and I think it takes a while to produce it. So yeah, they can selectively inject the amount they want.

A dry bite is a warning, like “whoa buddy, you almost stepped on me, watch where you’re going”. But the snake probably doesn’t wanna waste venom that it could use (or might need) to kill prey or actually defend itself against an attacking animal

I was always taught that the baby rattlesnakes can be the most dangerous, because babies can’t yet control the function of how much venom to inject, and blow their whole wad in one go.
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I was taught that also, it ends up being an old wives tale. https://wsed.org/baby-snake-venom-myth/#:~:text=The notion that baby rattlesnakes cannot control the,Dr. Bill Hayes for evidence of this fact:
 
jerryb73

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Metasynth said:
Venomous snakes have a finite amount of venom they can use before having to produce more, and I think it takes a while to produce it. So yeah, they can selectively inject the amount they want.

A dry bite is a warning, like “whoa buddy, you almost stepped on me, watch where you’re going”. But the snake probably doesn’t wanna waste venom that it could use (or might need) to kill prey or actually defend itself against an attacking animal

I was always taught that the baby rattlesnakes can be the most dangerous, because babies can’t yet control the function of how much venom to inject, and blow their whole wad in one go.
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Thanks. I’m from the city. We didn’t talk about snakes much. Lol. Snakes have one category with me. Snake :shock:
 
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