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April 19, 2012 | #31 |
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I always shake my shoes before putting them on, especially outdoor garden shoes or boots. Scorpions, cockroaches, you know.
When I used to have peafowl and guineas, they did a great job keeping rattlesnakes down, I saw peafowl eating large rattlesnakes while sitting on the fence or on top of the barn often. I've yet to see a rattle snake in my yard here but my parents in Scottsdale have seen a lot. Maybe they don't like flood irrigation? |
April 24, 2012 | #32 |
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If it isn't one thing, it's another. My garden is being bombarded with mistletoe! Clumps of mistletoe are breaking loose from the oak trees in the high winds in Atlanta, and landing everywhere in my garden. Some tomato branches are broken, but overall minimal damage.
Kiss that, mistletoe. |
April 24, 2012 | #33 |
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My neighbors found this in the yard last night.
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April 24, 2012 | #34 |
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Please I want the skin pretty please.
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April 24, 2012 | #35 |
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I don't know what they did with it, I will let you know.
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April 24, 2012 | #36 |
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We don't have many snakes around here anymore since the neighborhood has been totally developed. Years ago our boys would bring home white oak snakes from boy scout camp every summer and we would release them in the shed and garden area. I didn't have any squirrel problems during that time. I did nearly have a heart attack one night when I went out in the shed and reached up on a shelf that was chin high just as I turned on the light. I was nose to nose with a very large coiled white oak snake. I nearly shed my skin.
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April 25, 2012 | #37 |
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Got a few of these arond the place glad to have them.
Hog nosed snake. |
April 25, 2012 | #38 | |
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April 25, 2012 | #39 |
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Perhaps the IOC should introduce a new Olympic sport: the backwards
long jump.
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April 25, 2012 | #40 | |
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The idea is that people kill rattlesnakes so much, through rattlesnake round-ups and so on, that we're unintentionally selecting FOR quiet snakes, because they don't get caught as easily as the noisy snakes. So the moral of the story is: don't kill rattlesnakes! Or at least ones that rattle at you. We want to encourage that kind of behavior! I love snakes and would be reluctant to kill even a venomous one. I've never had a snake act threatening towards me, though. They always seem to be hightailing it away from me as fast as possible. A baby copperhead once curled up under my tent on a camping trip. Found him when we were packing up and lifted up the tent. He was just coiled up as small as he could get, and looked terrified. I got the longest stick I could find and poked at him until he slithered away. Just yesterday my cat cornered a Texas Patchnose snake. The snake was rearing up and doing it's best to act venomous, but my cat kept batting at it. I grabbed the cat and took him in the house so the snake could escape. I also get a lot of those little tiny snakes that look like earthworms in my garden. Those are really cute. |
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April 25, 2012 | #41 |
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^ interesting info about breeding a specific selection type based on what dies/survives. I would agree that the rattle is quite helpful.
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April 25, 2012 | #42 |
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Neohippie,
I love snakse too, I get so mad when someone needlessy kills a snake or for that matter any critter. I also despise rattlesnake roundups. Worth |
April 25, 2012 | #43 | |
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Yup, 'nother snake lover here! |
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April 25, 2012 | #44 | |
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April 26, 2012 | #45 |
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I don't mind non venomous snakes but the rattlers scare me, I have 4 older people 2 who are mentally diminished living here, I just cannot imagine how bad it would be if one of them got bit.
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