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I don’t have too many fears in life - some of the usual ones: public speaking, death, severe heights with no security.   But I’m pretty damn scared of snakes - and I encountered two of those bastards this week.  We moved to a new house and I was doing some final cleaning moving things out at our old house and had our basement door open.  I go to pick something up and what I think was a young copperhead was on this bag.  Scared the #### out of me.  I would have killed him but didn’t have anything to do it with.  So instead my son and I manage to get him outside with some sticks and picking the bag up.

Then yesterday I’m clearing out the back part of our backyard.  We back up to woods and within a 10-minute walk of a lake.  I knew there had to be snakes in the area but didn’t see any all day and then I’m cutting down some vines and small trees that had grown up and this damn thing comes out of nowhere and again I’m scared ####less - this one was probably close enough to bite me but I’m a little less scared of this one as his death is imminent with Ryobi hedge trimmers being the last thing this thing saw before I decapitated him.

And yes, I understand snakes eat vermin and other things and I also understand there are more scared or me than I am of them but if so I did that snake a favor because he probably was about to #### himself and embarrass himself in front of his snake buddies.

I ####### HATE SNAKES!!!

 
Snake story.

Mid 1980s, Colorado living up in the mountains in a condemned house (super-cheap rent).  The house frame was twisted a bit.  My 'bedroom' was a converted mud room with a poorly fit glass door with an even worse fitting screen door directly to the outside that would only close with the latch but still had a huge gap to the outside.

I was asleep but 'something' woke me up.

I shot up and zeroed in on the gap in the screen door and saw a snake slithering in but it stopped and we locked eyes staring at each other.  

Chill shot up my spine but I could sense the same thing with the snake.  Very eerie.

The snake snapped out of it and zoomed back outside.  No it wasn't a rattlesnake, I have a few of those stories, this was only a garden snake.

 
I've seen mostly black racers around my house. Not venomous, but mean if handled, and they'll bite anything. Found a baby king snake once, looked a lot like a coral snake, and I once found a corn snake in the wall in my garage.

 
A guy a few houses down was walking his dog and I noticed the back leg was gone. I asked him what happened and he said it was bit by a snake, copperhead or moccasin not sure which.  Our neighborhood backs up into the Chattahoochee so that basically freaked me out for a week after he told me. 
 

Edit since this got a crying emoji: the dog was still super happy and very playful. It’s a Doberman and the owner said even though the leg was lost, the dog is doing great. 

 
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I live in west central FL. Woods, lakes and swamps all around me. I hear gators bellow at night. Almost everyday I see black racers, yellow rat snakes, indigos and even an occasional coral snake! I don't pick them up unless one finds its way into my pool lanai which doesn't happen very often. They're all around the yard and I find them in my covered grill sometimes. Snakes rock!

 
Decades ago my oldest was visiting her friend. They were about 5ish. They were walking through the woods and they see a water moccasin. They turn around and come back to the house. 
 

To this day she insists she was almost killed by a snake and she’s lucky to be alive. 

 
Two snake stories from when we lived in the country on about 12 acres.

1.  Just moved into the house and was running cable for direct TV under the house.  My wife was pushing our 6 month old in a stroller around the front of the house while I was pushing the wire from under the house (plenty of black widows (which I hate) but no snakes under the house).  I hear a scream from outside and bust ### (and my head) trying to crawl out of the crawlspace.  I run through the house to the front porch and they are backed away from the house and there is a 6 foot rattlesnake coiled by the corner of the house (right where I was going to push the cable through).  Made sure they were ok and went to get my trusty snake killing shovel.  Me=1, Snakes 0.

2.  Running on some back trails around our property in the zone and damn near ran right onto a another rattle snake sunning itself in the middle of the trail.  Nearly #### myself.  Threw some gravel at it to make sure it wasn't dead (it wasn't) and gave it a wide berth and got the heck out of there.  Snake vs. Me = draw.

Bonus:  We had two Chesapeake Bay Retrievers who loved to antagonize snakes.  Some times they won, sometimes they would come back with huge puffy spots where they got hit.  Loved those dogs, but they were dumb...

 
22 years ago....Carrying some firewood into the house in the late fall. As I come into the house my eyes adjust to the light and I see a snake skin on one of the logs.
 

I drop the logs into my wood box, which was one of those half wooden barrels that you usually use for landscaping.
 

I get the wood stove going and about an hour later my wife goes to stand in front of the stove to warm her backside. Before she gets settled in, she screams “a snake!” as she runs away and jumps onto the couch.

I go over and look in the box and sure enough there is a snake on top of one of the logs. I get the wood stove poker and when I get back the snake is gone. I remove a few logs and see him at the bottom of the barrel. I try to stab him and he darts behind some logs and then I see him on the other side of the barrel. My thought is, how can he be that fast. Long story short...there ended up being two snakes. I would try to kill the one and then see the other one. Eventually killed both and restored order to my home. 

 
I was playing golf a few years ago and hit my drive near the rough on the right hand side of a hole. As I approached the ball, I see a rattlesnake laying in the fairway a few feet from the ball. It wasn't moving and I figured it was dead. I took out my driver and hit it into the ground a few feet from the snake. It immediately started to coil. Yikes! I dropped another ball a good distance away, hit and moved on calling it good.

You can have that ball and I hope you choke on it, snake.

The fact I improved my position was just gravy.

 
Kal El said:
I've seen mostly black racers around my house. Not venomous, but mean if handled, and they'll bite anything. Found a baby king snake once, looked a lot like a coral snake, and I once found a corn snake in the wall in my garage.
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King vs coral:

 ”Red touch yellow, kill a fellow; red touch black, friend of Jack”

 
I like snakes. I had a few as pets growing up. Nothing big or dangerous...just hognose and garter snakes. We would feed them small toads in the warm months and get newts from the pet store during the winter.

But yeah, if you have venomous snakes around that are a threat to your pets or family, tell them they are not welcome in your own special way (calling a pest company or animal control is always an option too).

 
I'll second this.  We have empty commercial land right beside our house and "florida vines" all over all the trees etc, so we see all kinds of different animals.  We've been here three years and have a ton of owls, some different hawks, seen a few armadillos, coyotes, bobcat sitting in my neighbor's driveway, bears, all kinds of ####.  And yes snakes...most of the time it's black racers, but we've had a couple coral snakes get into our pool.  If I see them out and about, I leave them go....if they enter MY space, they are toast.  A baby black racer worked it's way into our house via the pool bathroom door.  I caught it in a box and took it outside (didn't want to attack and then it hide somewhere that I couldn't find it.  I dumped it out of the box and then it started coming at me, so I squashed it.  I hate them too....kids were watching a Nat Geo thing on cobras in India yesterday and I couldn't watch it.  Those things gross me out.

 
Several run-ins with rattlesnakes here in Southern California...no joke, those ####ers will bite you if you mistakenly walk too close or stumble over one.

We have our dog rattlesnake trained but he loves to roam around and thinks everything is a toy so still worried.

 
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my old roommate (mid 90s) had a boa constrictor as a pet, and let it roam free in his bedroom. i wasn't super-scared of the thing, it was about 5' long and had circumference about the size of a softball at the widest point, but it was a little eerie to always know it was just behind a closed door.

one Friday night we went out for beers with a group of friends, and invited everyone over afterward to continue to the party. one of the women who came back to our place had to use the bathroom, so she goes in, does her business, and comes out a couple of minutes later. i went in right after was just about to whizz when i looked down and saw something odd.....the snake had somehow escaped from his room and was coiled around the bottom of the toilet itself. being well past .08 at this point, i peeled the snake off the toilet and carried him out into the living room. amidst the gasps and shrieks from almost everyone, i managed to say, "Hey Stephanie, guess who was watching you pee in there?" BWhahahahahahahahahahahaha. party ended less than five minutes later.

we never found out how the snake escaped that night, but it did happen again a few weeks later when my roommate left his door open while he went for an early AM run. i went into the bathroom to take a shower, not really paying much attention to anything, and grabbed the shower curtain and tired to pull it over but it wouldn't budge. i looked up and there's the snake, just hanging out on the top of the shower rod, staring at me with his head about a foot from my face. i will admit to being absolutely freaked out and running out of the bathroom like it was on fire. started doing a full recon every time i went in there again.

 
I am right there with you.  Grew up in Florida with lots of bad scares with snakes.  Now live in Northern Utah and love being out in the mountains (mountain biking, hiking, camping) but am just terrified of run-ins with rattlers.  I know all the same stuff about don't mess with them and you'll be fine but it's inevitable you accidentally sneak up on them.  I usually see 3-4 every time I do a long hike to a mountain peak.  Recently was mountain biking and I took a break to sit on a rock and eat some lunch.  I get up from lunch and notice that a ####ing rattlesnake is tucked in underneath the rock sleeping.  MFer was probably 5 inches from my calf the whole time I was eating lunch  :eek:

I guess the only good thing about snakes is that they've given me some foresight into how I will die.  One day I am going to be mountain biking and am going to suddenly come across a snake on the trail.  In my complete panic my reaction will be to steer my bike off of the cliff next to me to avoid it.  I have come to terms with this.

 
AAABatteries said:
I don’t have too many fears in life - some of the usual ones: public speaking, death, severe heights with no security.   But I’m pretty damn scared of snakes - and I encountered two of those bastards this week.  We moved to a new house and I was doing some final cleaning moving things out at our old house and had our basement door open.  I go to pick something up and what I think was a young copperhead was on this bag.  Scared the #### out of me.  I would have killed him but didn’t have anything to do it with.  So instead my son and I manage to get him outside with some sticks and picking the bag up.

Then yesterday I’m clearing out the back part of our backyard.  We back up to woods and within a 10-minute walk of a lake.  I knew there had to be snakes in the area but didn’t see any all day and then I’m cutting down some vines and small trees that had grown up and this damn thing comes out of nowhere and again I’m scared ####less - this one was probably close enough to bite me but I’m a little less scared of this one as his death is imminent with Ryobi hedge trimmers being the last thing this thing saw before I decapitated him.

And yes, I understand snakes eat vermin and other things and I also understand there are more scared or me than I am of them but if so I did that snake a favor because he probably was about to #### himself and embarrass himself in front of his snake buddies.

I ####### HATE SNAKES!!!
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Not sure where you live but we have copperheads here and I can’t tell you how many “baby” copperhead stories I’ve heard in my neighborhood yet no one ever sees an adult. There’s a common black rat snake (there are others too) that looks a lot like a copperhead as a baby/young snake. The funny thing is that rat snakes do eat copperheads, not necessarily all the time but they do. I’ve yet to see a real copperhead but I’ve seen dozens of black rat snakes so I’d assume all the baby copperheads are rat snakes. 

 
I come across a fair amount of snakes where I am and many of them are rattle snakes which are demonic bastards. So last week I took y dog for rattlesnake avoidance training. I am glad I did it as it could save the dogs life and my wallet. However it was horrific to watch and if I am glad I did not know ahead of time how they do this.

All my dog training has been positive reinforcement and redirection. That is not how rattlesnake avoidance is done. They use a shock collar and have different stations. First station a fake rattlesnake that has been in a box with live snakes so it has the scent. As dog approaches they shock him. Next station live rattler with rattles coiled and doing its thing. Same deal dog goes near it and gets shocked. Next station rattler with no rattle. rinse repeat

As my dog went to first station he hits the button and the dog did not seem to bothered. Dude readjusts collar and I think turned up the power. Next time he hits it the dog jumps in the air and looks like he is having a seizure. He looked to me like he started foaming at the mouth. I said to the guy this looks like its really freaking him out and he agrees but says just keep going. Took about 15 mins

At end I walk the dog to the fake snake and there was no way he was going near it, they then have a handler approach with a rattler and again dog wants nothing to do with it.

I do think the training worked but I was not a fan of it. My dog seemed out of whack all day but next day seems fine. I guess I wont know until we actually come across a rattler at home or hiking.

Trainer says if we are out hiking and he does not want to go to a certain area that there is probably a rattler there I don't see and I should go another direction.

* Live rattlers they used had mouths taped shut. Silent rattler had the rattle taped. They say they get new snakes often so the snakes wont become passive.

 
FreeBaGeL said:
I am right there with you.  Grew up in Florida with lots of bad scares with snakes.  Now live in Northern Utah and love being out in the mountains (mountain biking, hiking, camping) but am just terrified of run-ins with rattlers.  I know all the same stuff about don't mess with them and you'll be fine but it's inevitable you accidentally sneak up on them.  I usually see 3-4 every time I do a long hike to a mountain peak.  Recently was mountain biking and I took a break to sit on a rock and eat some lunch.  I get up from lunch and notice that a ####ing rattlesnake is tucked in underneath the rock sleeping.  MFer was probably 5 inches from my calf the whole time I was eating lunch  :eek:

I guess the only good thing about snakes is that they've given me some foresight into how I will die.  One day I am going to be mountain biking and am going to suddenly come across a snake on the trail.  In my complete panic my reaction will be to steer my bike off of the cliff next to me to avoid it.  I have come to terms with this.
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Rattlers scare me and fascinate me the most. my dad brought me home a rattlesnake belt from one he shot on a hunting trip probably in Montana, when I was really young. Loved that thing. The snake places in FL were fun as a kid. My dad loved to scare me hitting the wall of this little pit getting all the rattlers going. I do remember golfing in FL with a buddy years ago and he told me if the ball goes in the brush/bushes just to leave it. Hit one not too deep and walk over in front of the bushes. There goes a rattler letting me know to #### off. I turned right back around and got myself a new ball.

 
One of my scarier favorite rattler stories.

We were out hunting when we come across a huge diamondback rattler. At least 6' long. We shoot it ,(we do eat them), cut the head off, skin it, put it in a cooler. Just hanging out and this skinless,headless rattler crawls out of the cooler. That was scary enough but a friend picks up the snake and I #### you not it starts striking at him. Again skinless, headless, but still striking. Was really freaky to see and even though we knew it could not harm us our pulses were raised and you can bet your ### when that thing was striking we were jumping out of the way.

I have heard tales of these things crawling out of boiling pots which is why we cut them into chunks before cooking.

 
prosopis said:
I do think the training worked but I was not a fan of it. My dog seemed out of whack all day but next day seems fine. I guess I wont know until we actually come across a rattler at home or hiking.
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yeah, I had the same reaction...it is borderline abusive...we aren't taking him back.   

 
prosopis said:
One of my scarier favorite rattler stories.

We were out hunting when we come across a huge diamondback rattler. At least 6' long. We shoot it ,(we do eat them), cut the head off, skin it, put it in a cooler. Just hanging out and this skinless,headless rattler crawls out of the cooler. That was scary enough but a friend picks up the snake and I #### you not it starts striking at him. Again skinless, headless, but still striking. Was really freaky to see and even though we knew it could not harm us our pulses were raised and you can bet your ### when that thing was striking we were jumping out of the way.

I have heard tales of these things crawling out of boiling pots which is why we cut them into chunks before cooking.
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TripItUp said:
yeah, I had the same reaction...it is borderline abusive...we aren't taking him back.   
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They do a colorado river toad avoidance as well. I wanted to do that one as well but now that I know I'm not sure. Those toads are around a lot during monsoon season. I had a bigger dog that would get one every once in a while and it would mess him up but he pulled out of it. This is a smaller dog and I am worried it would be worse, maybe fatal. Still dont know if I will return for the training.

I was a little surprised the vet promotes this.

 
eoMMan said:
I like snakes. I had a few as pets growing up. Nothing big or dangerous...just hognose and garter snakes. We would feed them small toads in the warm months and get newts from the pet store during the winter.

But yeah, if you have venomous snakes around that are a threat to your pets or family, tell them they are not welcome in your own special way (calling a pest company or animal control is always an option too).
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prosopis said:
One of my scarier favorite rattler stories.

We were out hunting when we come across a huge diamondback rattler. At least 6' long. We shoot it ,(we do eat them), cut the head off, skin it, put it in a cooler. Just hanging out and this skinless,headless rattler crawls out of the cooler. That was scary enough but a friend picks up the snake and I #### you not it starts striking at him. Again skinless, headless, but still striking. Was really freaky to see and even though we knew it could not harm us our pulses were raised and you can bet your ### when that thing was striking we were jumping out of the way.

I have heard tales of these things crawling out of boiling pots which is why we cut them into chunks before cooking.
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That might freak me out.

 
Down the street a guy heading to work got bit by a rattlesnake catching the morning sun up against the curb. He got $80,000 worth of antivenom at the hospital.

When I was about 13 or so my brother and I would collect lost golf balls and sell them. There was this creek that snaked through the course, It was a gold mine. There was one part where the creek widened and got a bit got deeper and formed a good sized swimming hole, that was the honey hole. One day my brother and I were in the middle feeling along the bottom with our bare feet when we both look up at about the same time and see this moccasin heading straight for us at full speed. We got out of there as fast as we could, we were done for the day. We skipped the honey hole from then on.

 
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stbugs said:
Not sure where you live but we have copperheads here and I can’t tell you how many “baby” copperhead stories I’ve heard in my neighborhood yet no one ever sees an adult. There’s a common black rat snake (there are others too) that looks a lot like a copperhead as a baby/young snake. The funny thing is that rat snakes do eat copperheads, not necessarily all the time but they do. I’ve yet to see a real copperhead but I’ve seen dozens of black rat snakes so I’d assume all the baby copperheads are rat snakes. 
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We don't have rattlesnakes in my area, but every once in a while someone will say they came across a baby rattler that was shaking it's tail, but didn't have rattles yet.  Lots of snakes shake their tail when feeling threatened, and it can make a rattle noise in dry leaves.  Baby rattlesnakes have a little button rattle.

 
I was 10 and my sister was 8. We were playing croquet in the front yard with my Grandfather. I spot a water moccasin cruising down the gutter towards us and yell to my grandfather. He doesn’t say a thing, he calmly walks over to the snake, raises his croquet mallet and with one swing smashes the moccasin’s head. He walks back to the croquet game and taps a ball through a wicket with his gore covered mallet. My sister and I were speechless.

 
WDIK2 said:
We don't have rattlesnakes in my area, but every once in a while someone will say they came across a baby rattler that was shaking it's tail, but didn't have rattles yet.  Lots of snakes shake their tail when feeling threatened, and it can make a rattle noise in dry leaves.  Baby rattlesnakes have a little button rattle.
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Yep, baby copperheads have a green or yellow end of their tail, i.e. it would be obvious if you saw that. There are lots of baby snakes with "patterns" that go away as they grow up like rat snakes. The pattern is what people notice.

 
lakerstan said:
King vs coral:

 ”Red touch yellow, kill a fellow; red touch black, friend of Jack”
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I always heard it as:

"Red touch yellow, be mellow; Red touch black, you're never going back".

 
eoMMan said:
I like snakes. I had a few as pets growing up. Nothing big or dangerous...just hognose and garter snakes. We would feed them small toads in the warm months and get newts from the pet store during the winter.

But yeah, if you have venomous snakes around that are a threat to your pets or family, tell them they are not welcome in your own special way (calling a pest company or animal control is always an option too).
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I found a snake as a kid and ended up playing with it.  I didn't take it home but the other kids in the neighborhood saw us and  we all began to play with it and it became a neighborhood pet.  Gartner snake, very cool.  

Not all  snakes  are bad.

I was actually looking for a different story that I heard about a woman living remotely who was approached by a truck of scummy low-life who threatened here with rape when a rattler she had living on her property slithered up and aggressively rattled and struck at them till they left when I found this other story.

Florida Crazies: A Snake Saves A Woman From Being Raped And Killed By Home Invader

 
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