Snake stories

[hank4elk]

Timely.
I went to town and found 2 gopher(bull) snakes and a king in the road. The 2 got away when I stopped but caught the king. Put it in a tool bucket.
A mile down the road there was a little Mojave green. He coiled up and hissed/struck at me as I drove by...all one foot of him.
Another mile away I came across 2ft. prairie rattler near the cattle guard. He went into the pit and as I drove over it the whole thing was buzzing...looked out my window and there was a half dozen in there buzzing away.

I let the king loose near a woodpile when I got home.

 

[Gellar]

I have 6-10 snakes I take care of work. I usually have a black rat snake, a bull snake, a hognose snake, a fox snake, a milk snake and 1-3 timber rattle snakes and occasionally a rando snake that I think is cool.

A few years ago I was cleaning the cage of the black rat snake just after we opened to the public, 8 am or so. When I clean the rat snakes cage I just put him on the ground and he’s free to do his thing. This one was 8’ long. He doesn’t go far. Past the cage is a gift shop and a few offices and a small meeting room. The snake is stretched out across the path to the gift shop. About 8:10 a group of 7 women and 1 guy walk in. I did not recognize any of the ladies, but I just glanced out of the corner of my eye. They are dressed nicely but not of the ordinary for a group of women on a girls weekend. The guy is dressed in street clothes, but he’s of a muscular build. He is in back of the women and the last one in the building. All off the women go directly to the gift shop stepping over and not noticing the 8’ black rat snake they stepped over. The guy walks to the snake, stops, points down at the snake and says, “Governor, did you see this?” This perks my attention and I immediately notice one of the women is the governor of Iowa. She looks to see what the guy is pointing at. Upon realizing she just stepped over a 8’ snake she runs to meeting room, slams the door and locks it. The guy, her security guard, about loses it hysterically laughing. She did not come back out until I had the snake put away.

 

[Outlaw99]

I have 6-10 snakes I take care of work. I usually have a black rat snake, a bull snake, a hognose snake, a fox snake, a milk snake and 1-3 timber rattle snakes and occasionally a rando snake that I think is cool.

A few years ago I was cleaning the cage of the black rat snake just after we opened to the public, 8 am or so. When I clean the rat snakes cage I just put him on the ground and he’s free to do his thing. This one was 8’ long. He doesn’t go far. Past the cage is a gift shop and a few offices and a small meeting room. The snake is stretched out across the path to the gift shop. About 8:10 a group of 7 women and 1 guy walk in. I did not recognize any of the ladies, but I just glanced out of the corner of my eye. They are dressed nicely but not of the ordinary for a group of women on a girls weekend. The guy is dressed in street clothes, but he’s of a muscular build. He is in back of the women and the last one in the building. All off the women go directly to the gift shop stepping over and not noticing the 8’ black rat snake they stepped over. The guy walks to the snake, stops, points down at the snake and says, “Governor, did you see this?” This perks my attention and I immediately notice one of the women is the governor of Iowa. She looks to see what the guy is pointing at. Upon realizing she just stepped over a 8’ snake she runs to meeting room, slams the door and locks it. The guy, her security guard, about loses it hysterically laughing. She did not come back out until I had the snake put away.

It’s sound decision making like this that has made Kim such a remarkable leader for our great state for so many years!

 

[CRJR45]

I have 6-10 snakes I take care of work. I usually have a black rat snake, a bull snake, a hognose snake, a fox snake, a milk snake and 1-3 timber rattle snakes and occasionally a rando snake that I think is cool.

A few years ago I was cleaning the cage of the black rat snake just after we opened to the public, 8 am or so. When I clean the rat snakes cage I just put him on the ground and he’s free to do his thing. This one was 8’ long. He doesn’t go far. Past the cage is a gift shop and a few offices and a small meeting room. The snake is stretched out across the path to the gift shop. About 8:10 a group of 7 women and 1 guy walk in. I did not recognize any of the ladies, but I just glanced out of the corner of my eye. They are dressed nicely but not of the ordinary for a group of women on a girls weekend. The guy is dressed in street clothes, but he’s of a muscular build. He is in back of the women and the last one in the building. All off the women go directly to the gift shop stepping over and not noticing the 8’ black rat snake they stepped over. The guy walks to the snake, stops, points down at the snake and says, “Governor, did you see this?” This perks my attention and I immediately notice one of the women is the governor of Iowa. She looks to see what the guy is pointing at. Upon realizing she just stepped over a 8’ snake she runs to meeting room, slams the door and locks it. The guy, her security guard, about loses it hysterically laughing. She did not come back out until I had the snake put away.

Come on down here and getcha some of this !

 

[BenP]

What my cousin posted today.

 

[Outlaw99]

After some hard thought on this subject; I just want to say that I would rather fill my sleeping bag with mice and all types of spiders, get in and zip it up before I’d so much as pick up a 4” garter snake with my hand

 

[beagle001]

After some hard thought on this subject; I just want to say that I would rather fill my sleeping bag with mice and all types of spiders, get in and zip it up before I’d so much as pick up a 4” garter snake with my hand

I don’t care for snakes… I get the absolute heebie jeebies from mice and their little presents and stink they leave all over, so that’s a hard pass for me. I think I’d rather crawl into a sleeping bag with a couple garters… but I wouldn’t be happy about it

 

[mtmuley]

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I love snakes. Saw the first bull snake of the year just last night while out walking to pick asparagus.

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Pretty sure they den somewhere around us. Pretty much every May I see one or two, a few years back they were all over. Caught 3 in like 15 minutes, I was like a kid in a candy store. Few days later I found 2 more, maybe they were the same ones idk.

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Townsend also has melanistic (black) phase garter snakes. Lewis and Clark wrote about them in their journal. Had the perfect shirt on that day.

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Both times we’ve floated the Smith River I’ve seen and caught a nice bull snake. Probably the biggest bull snake I’ve caught. Also seen a garter eating a fish both times.

Hard no. mtmuley

 

[mdhunter]

I am a ‘live and let live” when it comes to snakes. That said, if we could “kill them all and let god sort it out”, I am totally fine with that as well.