Snakes Chickens and 2 year olds

[huntinwidow]

I just got my first 2 Ameraucana chicks today. I am so excited. I had my 2 boys (1 and 2) with me as I was getting them settled in.
I looked up and my 2 year old was holding what looked like a black piece of wire. It looked like it was bent and he was trying to straighten it. I took a second look and thought "that kinda looks like a snake". I asked him what he had. He took a good look at it gave a shiver and threw it down and screamed SNAKE.

It was just a little ring snake. One of the good guys, but it frightens me that he would pick it up and not even know that it was a snake.

 

[turney31]

Brave little soul, your going to have to watch that one. Mine brought me a live gopher one time I'll never know how he caught it or kept it from biting him.

 

[Chirpy]

Ahhhh!! Congrats on the new chicks. When we lived in town we only had garter snakes so my boys would pick them up and bring them to show me. When we moved to the country there was the possibility of 'dangerous' snakes so we had to retrain our little boys not to ever pick up a snake... just in case. Glad it was a harmless snake.

 

[theOEGBman]

Well that's great that he was brave enough to pick it up, but bad that he did! Very lucky it wasnt a venomous one. Im glad he has an interest in reptiles though, that's a good thing to have!

 

[Mandalina]

welcome to the wondeful world of little boys! mine are 4 and 5, and i tell you they will pick up and play with anything! i even find dead bugs in jeans pockets before they go into the wash,which is icky lol.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

We had a milk snake in the yard last spring when my sun was 18 months old, he thought it was sooo cool, and kept laughing at him trying to bite him. I didnt know what he was laughing about until I got over there. I was so upset with him, like theres not enough to worry over!

Another time i kept smelling something dead, and I couldnt find it. I'd be watching tv, cleaning, cooking, COULDNT find what smelled so dead...

I checked him finally and found that his hands smelled like death... I couldnt figure it out.

Later in the yard I found a dead mouse (present from the cats). He had been playing with it when I wasnt looking!

UUUGGGGHHH!!!

 

[preppy*hippie*chick]

My sister Mandy used to line up all the cat kills in the yard when she was a toddler.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

preppy*hippie*chick :

My sister Mandy used to line up all the cat kills in the yard when she was a toddler.

*gag*​

 

[preppy*hippie*chick]

Yep. My mom would FREAK!!!

 

[Mandalina]

preppy*hippie*chick :

My sister Mandy used to line up all the cat kills in the yard when she was a toddler.

It may be a name thing...I am a Mandy too and I used to collect the cat's presents of dead mice and put them into bags and hide them under the porch. I do not recall why I did it...but I did lol.​