So Scared!!!!!!!!!

Count your fingers. If they're all there, it probably wasn't a wolverine!

 

Geez, I'm scared just reading about it. Maybe it was just some harmless little furry thing - because the hens weren't acting scared, and it didn't bite or growl at you.

 

A few weeks ago a man in a nearby town (Casa Grande) walked out in his yard out after dark (no lights) and heard the water hose hissing. He reached down to turn it off, without looking at what he was doing, and was badly bitten by a rattler! He nearly died.

 

Quote:ok so where I live we have no rattle snakes, but we have plenty of other things, and this is exactly why I make sure my girls are in before the sun is completely down, even if I have to fight with them to go in...lol...I also take a dog or two with me and they kinda patrol the outside of the run, well really they are just marking their territory but it sounds better if I say they are patrolling lol...

If that would have been me touching something other than a hen I would be petrified too!!

 

holy moly...I have killed Eastern Diamondbacks and Timber Rattlers on my place...they kind of make the hair stand up on the back of my neck...and I am not a ninny...I picked up and threw an 80lb Dog out of a kennel run one day as it was preparing to "play" with a Diamondback...then I was laying over the top of the dog house making little snakes with a hoe...that was creepy and I could not let that one go...we were in a drought and the snakes were moving in hunting for water...my dogs were in danger of being bitten...scary stuff...

 

We often go out to the coop to close up just after dark, and enter the run by a side door. My dogs usually go out with me, and in particular, Harley, my big, male Golden, stands at the door of the run, facing outward, guarding me. He was not taught to do this, he just is a good guardian for me (probably not so much for my birds though )

 

Reading all these posts gave me goosebumps!!!