*sigh* I'm loosing my touch. (Warning: Hi-jacked by Em)

[Bunnylady]

Quote: As I recall, Terry is one of those "normal" people with a life-long dread of snakes. I'm sure you get a few of them in the shop - how does he handle them?

 

[hennible]

[COLOR=008080]I grew up here...so I'm pretty used to the critters. [/COLOR] [COLOR=008080] Never had a bad experience with them, and that's coming from someone who's lived in the woods their whole life. MFB had a snake go between his legs...that was hilarious. He found it slightly less so. [/COLOR]

Ha! I love snakes I'm just glad the ones here can't kill me. I just got bears and moose to worry about... Cougars... Etc.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

He actually handles the snakes in the shop. Apparently it's just snakes that surprise him?

 

[Wisher1000]

I don't like snakes. I can appreciate them, I can handle them, and I am not afraid of them, but I don't ever expect to have one as a pet. When I managed a pet shop, I assigned the part timers the task of feeding mice to the snakes, but I would get them out to clean the cage, sell, or show. DH, on the other hand, is deathly afraid of them. He screams like a woman if he sees one of any kind - rattlesnake, coppermouth, green snake, black racer, rat snake, chicken snake, corn snake, belt for the lawnmower snake, curvy black stick snake, or the icy one in the freezer.

I built a waterfall in our little creek. I stood barefooted in the middle, ankle deep in sand and stacked large flat rocks just upstream. I had become accustomed to leaves and sticks hitting me in the lower leg as they floated with the current. Occasionally, something would get stuck there for a bit, but would soon move on. I wasn't even looking to see what had hit me, any more, and just concentrating on my rock lifting and placement. At one point, I was standing still to decide what to do next and was vaguely aware that something had drifted onto my leg and was stuck there by the swift current. I noticed that it felt soft like a leaf, only thinner, and that it wrapped around my leg completely. Once all of those things sank in and REGISTERED, I looked down. The movement of my head caused the water moccasin to unwrap itself from around my lower leg and continue it's float down the creek. I didn't have time to react before the snake was moving away, so I watched it for a moment and only said, "Well." My nearby son asked "what?" and I told him a water moccasin had been wrapped around my leg but it swam off.

I don't think he believes it to this day.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:
Can I winter with you and MFB? I am learning to hate winter, use to dislike it, but I mean a true hate, like wanting to murder old man winter hate......

 

[EmtheFishLady]

Sorry Rooster...MFB won't let me bring home anymore strays. =/

 

[vehve]

Em, but if you neuter it?

 

[hennible]

I don't like snakes. I can appreciate them, I can handle them, and I am not afraid of them, but I don't ever expect to have one as a pet. When I managed a pet shop, I assigned the part timers the task of feeding mice to the snakes, but I would get them out to clean the cage, sell, or show. DH, on the other hand, is deathly afraid of them. He screams like a woman if he sees one of any kind - rattlesnake, coppermouth, green snake, black racer, rat snake, chicken snake, corn snake, belt for the lawnmower snake, curvy black stick snake, or the icy one in the freezer. I built a waterfall in our little creek. I stood barefooted in the middle, ankle deep in sand and stacked large flat rocks just upstream. I had become accustomed to leaves and sticks hitting me in the lower leg as they floated with the current. Occasionally, something would get stuck there for a bit, but would soon move on. I wasn't even looking to see what had hit me, any more, and just concentrating on my rock lifting and placement. At one point, I was standing still to decide what to do next and was vaguely aware that something had drifted onto my leg and was stuck there by the swift current. I noticed that it felt soft like a leaf, only thinner, and that it wrapped around my leg completely. Once all of those things sank in and REGISTERED, I looked down. The movement of my head caused the water moccasin to unwrap itself from around my lower leg and continue it's float down the creek. I didn't have time to react before the snake was moving away, so I watched it for a moment and only said, "Well." My nearby son asked "what?" and I told him a water moccasin had been wrapped around my leg but it swam off. I don't think he believes it to this day.

Scary. My DH screams like a little girl over spiders... Personally I love spiders as long as they're not spiders that are going to kill me. I'd love to keep a tarantula but that's kind of out of the question...

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Can I winter with you and MFB? I am learning to hate winter, use to dislike it, but I mean a true hate, like wanting to murder old man winter hate......

I'm with you let's find the old man and do the deed...

 

[EmtheFishLady]

I doubt it would matter, and I'm sure Rooster would have issue with that.

 

[hennible]

What if we send the Royal executioner to do it?