I just put one these on the lampshade

I see them all the time outside, but unless they are directly in the path of something I’m trying to do I leave them be. Now, I would climb up a 40ft extension ladder to kill a brown recluse. I hate those bastards.

How about a 41 foot ladder

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One cannot reason with phobias, especially in one’s wife, it’s just not healthy.

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We don’t have them up here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU

True story. 30 years ago, I flew to San Francisco on business. I’m there, I got my rental car, checked into a motel, called the missus (not Gypsy, a prior wife) to give her phone numbers in case she needs to reach me.

Fast forward five minutes…I’m running hot water for a shower, the phone rings. “That’s odd,” I muse - “nobody knows where I am except the Olady” so I pick up.

“HONEY THERES A SNAKE ON THE FRONT PORCH”

“I see…and what are you thinking I’ll be able to do about it from 2000 miles away?”

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40’s my limit.

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Why, you are to fly home and shoo it off the porch.

Duh

She might have settled for putting the call on speaker and having him talk it off the porch.

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We had an AWESOME dog…he loved moles, chipmunks, etc. Turned out he didn’t “do” snakes. You could point the snake out to him and he’d look at you deadpan, like “I don’t see nuffin…watchoo talkin about, boss?”

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My wife can’t stand snakes.Not even on TV, she’ll close her eyes and turn her head, totally phobic

Except for the white mamba I have in my pants :grin:

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I’m rather fond of an abino python myself.

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Good one

Durango was a german sheppard.

Tough dog, had an encounter with a hedgehog and a wild cat before

But it was a swamp rattlesnake that kissed the poor thing goodbye

Racoon kilt my first ever dog, Bosco. Tough assed little farm dog could fend off a coyote with no problem, but a dog is no match for a coon in the water, especially an older dog like Bosco. Got him around neck and drowned him.

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When my brother and I were 9 - 10 years old we used to go down to a nearby creek and turn over rocks until we found a snake… my brother would pick them up by the back of their heads, water moccasins, big copperheads, never got bit. Sometimes he’d bring them home to show our mom and she’d freak out… at one point he had a 20ft Burmese python that just roamed his apartment.

I got bit by a 4-5 ft boa constrictor that belonged to my brother, he was holding it on his arm and I touched it and it flipped around and bit my hand in less than a second… It was like 4 little needle holes on my hand.

If you want to see a really nasty tempered snake check out a “reticulated python.” My brother had bought one from a pet store when we were teenagers… a little smaller than this one and mean as a motherfucker… you let it out and it would be hissing and striking at you the whole time… he didn’t have any special tools to deal with it… he had to take it back and exchanged it for a nice tame ball python lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh83Z9ZpnkA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPmPBq-Pp4

This guy has a fun job

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wF0eU-iL8cU

Not liking snakes = not liking Merica!

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