Hello duck people,

[keeperofthehearth]

Weeeeeel, I'm not much into snakes....don't mind the garter snakes at all..... but do love the chooks and ducks. Nice Scovy .... but OUCHEEEEE! I can just imagine those nice claws poking thru that shirt into flesh.

 

[MysticalMom]

SOS.. I don't mind the snakes...really. I know they have their place and would never ever ever kill them. But Snakeman thinks its funny to catch a big black snake and bring it in very quietly so when I turn around or come out of a room I am startled with a big 6 foot black snake in my face. He swears he's doesn't do it on purpose.... but it happens too often for me to believe it.

He recently made me ride in the car with 3 HUGE blacksnakes at my feet that we took and set free at the beaver dam. They were in a pillow case, but they were moving all around against my ankles and while I don't mind them... I don't want it them on me. *shivers* That was the longest short ride ever!!!!

And thanks for the compliment.... Snakeman is a good man. He's a good husband, a good dad and does all the messy work with our ever growing farm. I'm a lucky girl and we're good together. He is the yin to my yang. ( And he puts up with me and my Gemini attitude) Trust me.. I kissed many a toad before my animal loving prince came along.

 

[Nava]

can you duck people tell me what I have here??

 

[MysticalMom]

I'm no expert.. but they look like Khaki Campbells?

 

[Snakeman]

A couple of you have mentioned the claws and scratching. My big boy in the photo never even dug a single claw in. He's very gentle as long as you don't try to force him into something he doesn't want to do.

 

[MysticalMom]

He doesn't look so gentle when he's flying at me in the morning to be the first at breakfast.

You're right, though, he's a good boy. But one day he's going to poop all down your back and then I'm going to say.... "I TOLD YOU SO!"

 

[Kansaseq]

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Khaki's x 2

 

[callducklover20]

Welcome-one of my chickens jumps on my boyfriends shoulder everytime it sees him and they walk around like that, and then his siamese cat gets jealous and jumps up to the other shoulder and he walks around with both his girls on his shoulders-it is so funny

I love snakes and all other reptiles too-one day when I was out riding my quad on the trails at a local lake a beautiful Prairie King came across the trail and I hit the breaks, stopped and it went right up the engine area of my quad and curled its self around all the bars. I was trying to carefully get it out and 3 guys stopped to "Help" me and ask me if I wanted them to kill it and I told them are you crazy I have been trying to catch one of these for years, why would you kill this beautiful animal-I got it out and curled up around my wrist and freaked out so many guys it was so funny. I always catch big black snakes and freak out all the guys I ride with-now when they see me jump off my quad they dont come running to see what I am after lol
I have so many crazy big snake stories since I was a little girl and use to freak my dad out all the time lol

 

[Parrotchick]

Twice in my life have I been bitten by snakes. On both occasions I was being "helped" by macho dudes who poked and prodded the snakes, angering them so that they nipped the closest hand, which of course was mine. I've been picking up snakes much of my life without incident, generally to relocate it, be it from the house or patio or a warm asphalt road. I no longer let anyone "help" me unless I know that they are capable of handling snakes themselves and won't do something dumb that will further upset the snake.

It's strange to me that snakes are fairly common outside of cities,and though there are few occasions that would make somebody need to deal with one, how incredibly freaked out so many people are by them. I mean deathly afraid. And it doesn't seem to matter whether it's a pet or a wild one. My sister chopped a harmless little ten inch king snake several times with an axe when we were teenagers. It was minding its own business on the outside windowsill. I couldn't stop her; it was like she saw the devil himself. She feels terribly guilty about it now, but she still doesn't like snakes. So many people feel that way-"kill it!". If I have the opportunity around a snake fearer, I pick up a snake and at least try to get them to touch it, even for a split second. That bit of aversion therapy never created a snake lover, but at least it lessened some of the terror and hatred.

So why do people hate snakes so much? Think it's a Biblical thing?

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Mystic - that is so mean of him!! lol you poor thing. So you are a fellow Gemini!? Awesome - I am as well, and I agree we gemini's have a very quirky personality - me I am two very extreme people packed in a single package - so I can be a handful.

Parrot chick I agree people are just insanely fearful and hateful of snakes - I have never understood why they can't just leave them ALONE - unless you have chicks and chickens and eggs - then I can see your worry - but there are ways to safeguard against them without heartlessly killing them.

I'd rather have a 6 ft black snake cruising around my house than field mice and rats. OMG the other night my cat dragged out a GIANT field rat out of MY HOUSE!!!! Now I hate rats - I do - but I can deal with them and have no issue touching them to feed them to my snakes - lol. but in MY HOUSE !?! nutuh - he was dead by metal ladel very quickly.

But really - snakes eat mice, rats, lizards, some eat other snakes.... I mean more people get bit trying to kill a snake than those who just see them and walk the other way and leave them be. We had one get in the house last year (last year was the year of the snake 5 black snakes and 2 corn snakes in our yard/house in about a months period) and it was on 3 ft long. I'm asleep and get screamed at "WAKE UP WAKE UP!!! Theres a snake in the house and its trying to get into the babies room!" My mom had stayed the night and she isn't afraid of snakes or usually isn't but the snake trying to get in my daughter's room FREAKED her out. SO she's pissing this snake off in the hall way with a toilet plunger trying to keep him in the middle of the hall instead just blocking under the door to my daughter's room and leaving the snake be till I can get him.

So I'm up all of 2 minutes and have to catch this peeved off snake...she sticks the toilet plunger on its head when i get the snake's tail and so i grab him by the neck and am trying to inch my way up to grab him right behind the head so he obviously wouldn't snag be...Now by this point in 3 weeks I'd caught 4 snakes hadn't been bit! but I tell her to inch the plunger up easy and what does my mother do? Picks the plunger straight up instead of inching it up, there was still 3 in' before the back of the snake's head so obviously Mr. Peeved black snake turns around and whack my fingers 2 times. *sigh* 7 snakes in that month and the ONLY one that bites me and was aggressive was the one I was *assisted* in catching. *sigh* lol

I believe the aversion to snakes come from 2 things : Older generations it definately has to do with biblical references I think to the snake being devil re-incarnate - lol. Younger generations its that aversion and 'evil badness' being passed down and just the whole thing dramatized and what not. You wouldn't believe all the false info I'm told about snakes from people who swear its true. 'snakes are lured by milk and maple syrup in maple trees' or 'snakes are mean as snot and will bite for no reason' 'snakes are evil because they are unnatural and have no legs' 'snakes will kill you in your sleep' etc etc....

I have given up trying to tell people differently - but I do try to introduce them to mine I mean really my 5 ft ball python who is a big fat easy going old boy being carried around by my 5 yr old like a rag doll and doesn't care - is SO SO evil right? Or little Neo who is 2.5 ft and my daughter goes "awww ain't she so cute?" and kisses the snake - lol yeah pure loathing evil right there.

I actually walked down the road as a teen when I had my larger snakes and had them on my arms or shoulders and people would realize what I had and jerk their cars around and I had to stop walking near busy roads because people kept nearly getting into wrecks!!!! People are just funny strange sad creatures sometimes - lol.