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backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts) Sun Sep 8, 2013, 09:13 PM Sep 2013

people and snakes are a trip [View all]

My wife just called me freaking about a snake at her friends apartment.They were both screaming for me to come kill it.

Turns out it was a 6 inch garter snake.I caught it and thought about making it a pet but took it to the edge of the woods and turned it loose.

I don't get the reflexive fear of snakes...spiders I get...but not snakes

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people and snakes are a trip [View all] backwoodsbob Sep 2013 OP

I read ya. mgc1961 Sep 2013 #1

I love snakes. I had two boa constrictors a few years ago. RebelOne Sep 2013 #3

I like snakes. They are interesting animals. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2013 #2

Snakes are cool! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #4

me too....but I found that snakes are boring pets BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2013 #14

I had a horned toad, too! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #18

Snakes rock. a la izquierda Sep 2013 #5

same here backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #6

I am a snake-o-phobe. grasswire Sep 2013 #7

Snakes, spiders, bees, wasps, most 'creepy crawlies'... Locut0s Sep 2013 #8

I hav always liked snakes. Palmetto bugs, now... nolabear Sep 2013 #9

I backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #10

oh and I saw my first backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #11

Are tower ants like fire ants? Big, termite-mound building fire ants? nolabear Sep 2013 #13

Amen to that. I had some childhood experiences that left m scarred for life! nolabear Sep 2013 #12

I hate snakes Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #15

Snakes I can handle. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #16

I don't understand the hatred of snakes OR spiders. Respect, most definitely. Fear? Not so much Flaxbee Sep 2013 #17