smockingRN Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 My DH,Tommy almost stepped on this 32" Coral snake in our back yard this a.m. Yikes! Karen in Louisiana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyc Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 aren't those poisonous. OOOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Holly, That's what I was going to ask!! Why would you be so close you could get a picture????? YIKES!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltermidwife Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 .........it looks very poisenous. I don't do snakes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April W Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 OMG, please tell me DH killed it before you laid down your tape measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Doesn't look dead to me. Red on Black don't jump back...Red on Yellow kill a fellow. Isn't this how the saying goes? I hope it is dead now. I like snakes...but only the non-poisonous type thank you. I had a 4' bull snake a couple of years ago until he started to hibernate. Then we let him go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I so hate snake....doesn't matter what flavor or size...they all get my shovel.... Was raised with Diamond backs....and learned at a very young age...that the only good snake in the yard was a dead snake. Unless you see it in the field and they are catching mice or whatever they eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Here we have lots of rattlesnakes. My kids aren't allowed near a snake until Dad or I have made certain what it is! They found a small bull snake in the ball field this weekend during baseball games. They chased it off across the road so as not to disturb the little ones playing ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JillFrazior Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 WOW...that's a long coral snake. Just googled them and average length is 27". So glad your DH saw it in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskazooli Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I am so afraid of snakes that I'm always watching where the pups are stepping and I forget about me. Last week I almost stepped on a long black one, don't know if it was poisonous or not, didn't wait to check. I'm afraid the only good snake is a DEAD one for me. Glad ya'll are safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 We had a coral snake here in H'Burg a few years back. There was all the talk about how they are not in this state. Ha! Well we took the dead thing out to So Miss and yes, indeed it was a coral snake. Any snake scares the beegeebees out of me! Glad the one in your yard is dead! Wonder where the babies are?................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg_marsh Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 OMG ........ nasty looking thing. We have lots of snakes here in the desert - I stay away from anything that slithers!!! In the spring, once I see a lizard, I know the snakes are about - don't go near a bush and in general just keep a watchful eye. Don't like snakes!!!! or blackwidows!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoriaG Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Karen, That is scary! I don't do snakes or big spiders! It is why I live with snow. vg Minnesota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyonden Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 We had a black snake in our kitchen last week. It was about 4 ft. long. It came out from under our stove and went back under and disappeared. There is a small hole where the gas line comes up from the basement and it sure seemed to be too small for the snake to slither into but must have. Love the black snakes cause they kill the copperheads that we seem to have in abundance around here. Glad you saw this before someone got hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nineva Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww.:o:o Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Nope, nope, nope no snakes for this girl! Yucko! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Gordon Bennet! You don't get that sort of thing in Scotland! (adders are here in the hills but very rare) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennan100 Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Ick, ick! Ick! I can't even look at pictures of snakes or scorpions! It all just makes me run. Gives me the willies! I've run into snakes a couple of times and just freak out, which is really funny since I'm not a freak out kinda person. I may be like that about spiders now since my daughter was bitten on her calf by a brown recluse last August and the wound is still not closed. I did finally get her to change doctors and get a wound care specialist. It's finally starting to get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenscratch Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 They are bad this year for sure. My husband killed a huge king snake in the barn the other day. We have had several in the yard, but they always get away before we can get rid of them. Since we've had all this rain and flooding the prediction is that the snakes will start moving to higher ground (ie. people's homes); so we're all on the lookout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 We have just about every kind of snake in Missouri. In southern Missouri we had Cotton mouth, but I read that they don't come north of the Missouri River...I hope they read that article too Our lake property is on Truman Lake, right in the middle of the state, so we have copperheads, rattle snakes, cotton mouth, garden snakes, black snakes, spread natter, king snakes, water moccasin, you name it - we've got it....I hate, hate, hate snakes. And to top it off...it is illegal to kill a snake in Missouri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countrystitcher Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 My girlfriend opened her kitchen utensil drawer a few weeks ago and there was a bull snake curled in the corner -- she is not afraid of anything - so she grabbed it behind the head, measured it and then took it outside and let it go...she cracks me up; she doesn't like to kill anything!!!! Me, I'd be running - snakes just are sneaky; spiders I don't like, but will put up with (I'll kill one in the house). Guess it's a girl thing! Sharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmiequilts Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 We have tons of snakes here, this pic was taken after heavy rain here, don't know how the snake got run over but I didn't mind one bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 you guys are funny. i like snakes. i'll tell you why- they keep the vermin population in check. remember about the black plague back in the 16th (?) century? the only thing i distaste is ticks and chiggers. HATE EM! but i still wear snake boots when i go hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 Originally posted by doodlebug remember about the black plague back in the 16th (?) century? Okay, kid, how old do you think we are?? :P:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoryJM Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 I'm not a huge fan of snakes, but unless they're rattlers, I let them live. Like Shannon said, they eat the vermin! We moved into our house before it was finished and you know what that means...four years later and it still isn't finished! We had a really big, really black spider that hung out behind the toilet. I named her Charlotte and told her that if she'd stay in her corner (she could get under the wall and go between them--unfinished house=no baseboards) I wouldn't try to kill her. But there was no coming out and trying to scare me. Things worked well for months...then one day she had what I thought was a friend. That didn't work...so Dennis killed her and went to kill the "friend"...did you know that spider moult?? Poor Charlotte:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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