GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS...

[Mama Etna]

Rats are what we tend to curse Captain Cook for. He is responsible for introducing them to New Zealand. They got off his ship when he visited different places around the NZ coast. Maybe they saw better pickings ashore.

I wonder who introduced the Norway Rat to the US?

 

[CharismaticLady]

I kill rats and mice with traps and even shoes. I hate those critters too.

I love all God's critters, except mosquitoes, fleas and ticks. If Satan had the ability to create, I would bet he created those.

 

[waterlilyoflife]

If you see a snake, stomp the ground, scream and yell, that will keep them away. Green snakes are dangerous because theyblend in with the grass. The worse snakes are the 2 legged kind, get what I mean? I hate snakes, I hear they fear us, as they should. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. I also hate alligators. The only place i want to swim in is a pool. i don't like the beach because it is so dirty. I used to like walking in the sand where the waves lap on the shore and feel soft sand and water on my feet, carry my flip flops in my hand. I like the beauty of a coral reef. I love nature, I like the idea of a city on a hill. I think heaven will have beautiful gold jeweled mansions with pretty gardens behind them. There will be beautiful birds and butterflies. Cute little animals. my dogs, cats, rabbit and birds will be with me. I believe there is a heaven for animals. But no snakes, no reptiles. fire ants, wasps, hornets they are mean creatures! Snakes are mean! Those egyptians were crazy to worship snakes and crocodiles. Cats can be nice if you treat them well. I had a sweet little persian aristocat. I called her my persian princess. When my mom goes gardening, I want her to be careful, especially in the evening. My favorite flower is the water lily, I like pink ones, they float serenly on the pond, I like pastel colors, I hate the sight of blood, I hate horror movies, I hate violence, I hate guns, I hate evil, I hate lies I hate devil. I love God, I love what is good and what is right. I am a follower of the way, the narrow path. It is not funny when people get hurt.

 

[Taken]

GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS...
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[Stranger]

Only if they are dead and rotting.

It seems that non-poisonous do give an odor when you pick them up. I have been told that is their defense mechanism. Whereas the poisonous snakes have their venom and so don't put off an odor.

But, the cotton mouth snake is poisonous and I have always experienced an odor when dealing with them. In fact, that odor has alerted me at times while running lines on the river, and in the overhanging bushes.

If you live in an area where there are poisonous snakes, the key is to know your snakes.

Stranger

 

[CharismaticLady]

It seems that non-poisonous do give an odor when you pick them up. I have been told that is their defense mechanism. Whereas the poisonous snakes have their venom and so don't put off an odor.

But, the cotton mouth snake is poisonous and I have always experienced an odor when dealing with them. In fact, that odor has alerted me at times while running lines on the river, and in the overhanging bushes.

If you live in an area where there are poisonous snakes, the key is to know your snakes.

Stranger

Their defense mechanism is pooping. So, of course, it stinks! LOL

Black mambos do smell like burnt rubber so you know when they are around.

 

[Mama Etna]

I love all God's critters, except mosquitoes, fleas and ticks. If Satan had the ability to create, I would bet he created those.

I don't like biting insects either, but I do like ladybugs and butterflies.

 

[CharismaticLady]

I don't like biting insects either, but I do like ladybugs and butterflies.

Ladybugs bite. Lions do too. I subscribe to the Lion Whisperer on youtube. I love all animals, and every creepy crawly, except what I mentioned. Enjoy this.

cc: @Paul Christensen, @marks @Episkopos, @Nancy, @Heart2Soul , @Josho , @amadeus Enjoy. I would love to be him!

 

[Stranger]

Their defense mechanism is pooping. So, of course, it stinks! LOL

Black mambos do smell like burnt rubber so you know when they are around.

We don't have the black mambo. But, that is good to know.

Good-Ole-Rebel

 

[Josho]

GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS...
Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.

A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.

It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream.
The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.
He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here...
They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
And that's when he shot her.

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Wow what a story you have there.

 

[Brakelite]

We don't have any snakes here in NZ, but over the ditch in the land of Oz they have a brown snake which is one of the most deadly in the world, and they can be found in towns and cities, so one always has to check piles of firewood, and their wet weather wellingtons (or in NZ language, gumboots). Usually they keep clear of people, and most people who are bitten come by them accidentally by standing on one or grabbing firewood.

We just have a small venomous spider which can give a nasty bite.

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Usually found in tussock grass at the coast.

Actually, you do have snakes in NZ. A small colony of Aussie imports have been residing in the gold fields on the west coast since the 1800s. Google it.

 

[Paul Christensen]

Actually, you do have snakes in NZ. A small colony of Aussie imports have been residing in the gold fields on the west coast since the 1800s. Google it.

Yes. I read up on it. Interesting story. Might cost too much money to try and track them all down. They are copperhead snakes, very venomous, but shy of humans and not aggressive, which is one thing I suppose.

 

[Brakelite]

Yes. I read up on it. Interesting story. Might cost too much money to try and track them all down. They are copperhead snakes, very venomous, but shy of humans and not aggressive, which is one thing I suppose.

Tis interesting. I've been here in Oz for 3 and a half years and the only snakes I've seen was in the reptile shop. Maybe they saw me coming and scarpered. That I don't mind.

 

[Mama Etna]

The American Red Ladybug doesn't bite, but the the invasive Asian Multicolored Lady Bug does. Those get in my house in the fall.