, ive never been afraid of any animal , even snakes as long as they dont bite....lol... but this snake and i have a long history, since one day i saw 4 of my wild cats out on my back porch and they had a small snake they were planning to eat, so i ran out and made them drop it , then ran and got a glass dish to cover the baby snake so i could contain it and look up on line what it was, i found out it was a baby king snake, so i took it in and healed up its wounds, so after a wile it was healed & i took it out to the back of my land at dusk ,knowing they are night snakes , and i release it under a big thorn brush so the cats could not get at it, and it had some time to get away, so fast forward almost 20 years later , this giant king snake has saved me a few times and on this night i was able for the first time to take pics of it, so i took like 20 pics of it & after i went back inside , some thing told me that was the baby snake i had saved, i searched on line and found , king snakes can live 20 years. so was that the baby i had saved and does & it remember me , since in minutes it would have been dinner, for 4 cats, its all just amazing when you think about it..! i like to think it was that tiny snake i saved all those years ago, but no matter what im just so grateful for my big beautiful king snake.! and i hope its a girl so she will have more kings to guard my land...!!! nature does work with us & does a great job of it, i must say...!! sadly most people don't notice, but all i have to say is life is about learning ..!! & being grateful...!!!Some people are creeped out by snakes, I'm not one of them. How nice the King is there to protect you from the rattlers. S/he is lovely.