BK2 1, Snake 0

[Ryanol]

I'd be putting some d-con down stat cause he didn't come there for the cheerios.

 

[Big Mike]

The word 'ignorant' implies that one doesn't know any better. To say "too ignorant to know better" is redundant.

But I'm all about our slithery little friends. I'm a catch and release kind of guy, but I have no animosity towards those who feel different.

YO Mikey, I guess that makes me too ignorant to know better.

Now that I think on it, ...it seems this reply might be redundant.






Big Mike

 

[Russ Andrews]

Killing harmless snakes is unnecessary....and Illegal in Missouri.

 

[oXide]

Ohhh, black snake was the spiecies! Ok! Now I understand...

 

[stabman]

Big Mike is right snakes are our friends. I can understand the situation though. When something/someone threatens our women, us men go into protect mode until the threat is neutralized.

But you look way more manly when you nonchalantly grab the snake with your bare hands and release it outside.

Brave + saving animals = crazy hot gratitude sex (math CAN be fun sometimes)

 

[Bladite]

when you find snakes, esp in concentration, and in your shed, garage, home, they aren't just "hanging out", they came in because they could smell FOOD...

and what do they like eating? insects (cochroaches), mice, rats, other snakes sometimes, but esp rodents.

you can be SURE if there's a snake, there's a rodent. almost always.

so when i help friends relocate the mobile rat catchers we call snakes, i then help them find the rodent nest, set traps. snap. yup, there we go.

i've even had traps going on just around the corner while setting the damn things. that many rodents. just always out of sight.

as for dispatching an animal, imho, if you can't go for the clean kill. don't. get a better angle, or implement if need be.

black snakes - esp that size are probably a typical "water snake", and they can get huge. they're over 5-6 feet here and thick. they eat a LOT of rats, mice, and other snakes.

garden snakes, rat, milk, and other such snakes do too. friend of mine had a garage filled with them one year. also about 500 baby mice were found a few hours later after picking up the snakes and moving them. the mice were, uh, removed and dispatched. by the bucketful. oiy. you leave out the food, the snakes will come. if the mice can get in, so will they. so seal up those holes and foundations.

bats as well, they have a few of those :> they on purpose have bat houses, and the biting insect problem is a lot less. naturally.

 

[Bladite]

But you look way more manly when you nonchalantly grab the snake with your bare hands and release it outside.

Brave + saving animals = crazy hot gratitude sex (math CAN be fun sometimes)

i usually put on some gloves of some kind, because you know, potential salmonella and rodent contact diseases... typically dish gloves will be fine, help in the case of a mild bite - most of the US snakes aren't poisonous, but they can break skin, and some people have allergic reactions. me? i don't that i know of.

while i don't have a professional snake stick, one can make do with many such things. keeping calm, and slow, and most snakes will let you pick them up without much issue, and voila, back to the pond/wherever.

 

[Sabong1]

Some black snakes get really big. I have seen a black snake so long that its head was in the ditch, the body across the dirt road and its tail in the other ditch. I do not know its full length but I bet the road was at least 15 to 20 feet wide.

A black snake is one that I do not kill. A black snake will eat poison snakes and rodents which mean I do not have to deal with them. Most every other snake I do kill but not black snakes. I even kill those little garden snakes because they tend to be many if you find one but a black snake is your friend.

Black snake could have been an indigo snake. Those are the only black snake in north America that can get that big.

 

[arcadiaknives]

About two weeks ago i pulled the weight off of the chest freezer I have in the shop and BOING there is a freakin' black snake poking it's head out of the wall where two pieces of flimsy paneling come together. Whoa! It freaked me out for a second but I'd seen him around quite a few times before that...only outside. Seems like here in Tennessee every where you look there's something moving. He's probably getting fat on toadies. As long he's working for me he can stay.

 

[oXide]

Black snake could have been an indigo snake. Those are the only black snake in north America that can get that big.

Let me google that for you.

Better yet, there are four snakes that live in North America and reach that size and are called black snakes.

 

[Sabong1]

Since we are on the subject of snakes here is a pic of some gems my good friend breeds.

 

[et45]

But you look way more manly when you nonchalantly grab the snake with your bare hands and release it outside.

Brave + saving animals = crazy hot gratitude sex (math CAN be fun sometimes)

beat me to it,shoulda just grabbed it and took it outside

 

[JV3]

Snakes in the house, NO; Snakes out in nature, YES.

snakes in the house: yes! snakes out in nature: yes!

Everyone that loves Chinese food loves rats, pigeon and cats.

i had a cat once and named him "siopao".

 

[Murphnuge]

Not very smart thinking.


Snakes are a very effective form of natural rodent control.

One of the few that will target the nest.


Rodent populations help support and spread ticks and other parasitic insects.



Snakes are Our friends.



The correlation of the decline of snake populations and the rise in Lyme disease and other insect born illnesses is disturbing.




Snakes in the house, NO; Snakes out in nature, YES.





Big Mike

True, mostly.

Friendly -

Non-friendly -

Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

 

[tradewater]

Guyon likes snakes.

 

[Bowman1911]

Last summer I stopped to help a King across the road. He was in the middle of a pretty busy 2 lane & his fate was sealed if I didn't help him. As I was tryin' to pick him up, I had 2 different cars come into the oncoming lane to hit the snake, or me, or both of us for that matter! Kinda pissed me off that people will cross into the other lane to kill a snake without identifying it first. Sorry, not really on topic, but snake related nonetheless.

 

[Sabong1]

Let me google that for you.

Better yet, there are four snakes that live in North America and reach that size and are called black snakes.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Silverthorn]

I have to say uninvited snake of unknown type in my house, snake gonna die.
Snake of unknown type in the wild, Imma go around it. I generally dont kill bugs in the wile either, but in mi casa is a different story.

 

[Haze240]

That's too bad you didn't think of grabbing it by the tail and taking it outside before just hacking at it. It probably died in pain and scared out of its mind. I try to avoid doing that to creatures of any kind when I can.

 

[axesbold]

I had a crazy ex call me freaking cause there was a "water moccasin" in her closet. Mocs don't live anywhere near here, but I couldn't deal with it or her. Told her to call the sheriff. Couple deputies went out. They called the fire department. A First Responder went in and caught the critter, took it out. If it happens again I'm calling the law....