Posted by Kath on June 6, 2006, at 20:35:53
In reply to Re: i'm the exception then :-O, posted by TexasChic on June 6, 2006, at 11:06:37
Corn snakes are soo cute. One year my husband, daughter & I went to Allegany State Park for a holiday. There were various events, one of which was snake-finding. They found cute small ring-necks & I can't remember what else. Anyway, afterwards, we went back & my daughter (who was in her early 20's at the time) captured 1 of each.
Confession Time:
She kept them & when it was time to go home to Canada, we had to figure out how to take them back (not supposed to bring in plants, wildlife, etc). She put grass, etc into a large plastic peanut butter tub & they came back with us in our cooler!!!! They lived for a few years. She had them in a huge fish tank decked out like nature. "Sammy" died on her birthday & she was devatated!!
K
Just killed yet another copperhead a few days ago.
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> Oooh, scary! Copperheads, water moccasins, and Rattlesnakes are the scary ones to me. But I think that's because those are the only kind they ever showed on the westerns I watched as a kid.
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> So what eats snakes anyway? Was it birds of prey that Larry mentioned? Maybe you can get a bunch and release them in your back yard. ;-) Oh wait, that might be bad for any pets around.
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> Its too bad we have to kill them, they're just doing what they do (we'd probably be overrun by mice and rats if it weren't for them). But what else CAN you do?
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> Oh, and those little ones Kath mentioned are so cute. When I briefly worked at Petco, we had albino corn snakes, they were pink with a white lacy design. They were really very pretty and would just curl up in your hand. Younger kids loved them. They also had Baby Ball Pythons which are these minature pythons. When I would get one out of the cage it would rear up and look just like a regular python (only smaller) and scared the crap out of me. I have to admit they were really cool though.
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> -T
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