Ha, I was channeling my inner Indiana Jones. Let me clarify I am not frightened of snakes. I actually am quite fascinated by them. I wanted a pet snake soooooo bad when I was a kid but my mom thought I was nuts and said no. Lately though I am teensy bit paranoid when in my yard. I mean we had a near death (of an animal) because of a poisonous one that made its way into our yard a few months back.
*Flash Back*
Dog very lethargic...looked like someone was murdered in my house. There was watery blood EVERYWHERE! Me thinking dog is dying because he's old...took dog to vet and vet said "Um, I found two puncture wounds". OMG!!!
He is fine now. But we never found a snake.
Then about a week ago, I heard what sounded like a rattle coming from my psycho neighbors yard. I freaked and pretty much threw one of my dogs away from the fence! "Go inside!!!!! Why are you looking at me like that, shoo!" It could have been a bug but I wasn't taking any chances. It scared me because it was late....and dark....and well you just never know.
*back to present*
Then...then...I found EVIDENCE! You see I was in my yard picking up knocked over potted plants. Something I always do after a crazy rainstorm. As I picked up my poor beat up Gerber Daisy, I saw something stripped move, in the pot. *scream* I let out a yell and dropped the plant. "Run awaaaay, run awaaaaay!" Whatever it was SLITHERED under some leaves. After I did the "what the f**k* was that" dance and dragged my dogs inside, "ahhhhh don't go over there!!! OMG you dumbo, go inside!", I composed myself. I was...not scared...more concerned. So I tried to find it by poking the leaves with a stick. I mean that's what we humans do, right? "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick." Well I couldn't find the damn thing. So I got my other half and we searched. Him fussing me for not being more cautious. Which I mean you never know what this thing is so I guess I should have been more careful. Anyway, after moving stuff around we found it. A little less than a foot long, baby snake. Since we had a problem with something poisonous before it was a "ahhhhhh kill it, KILL IT" reaction instead of our normal, "oooooooo what is it" reaction. The problem was we couldn't identify it. I know king snakes and most garter snakes and milk snakes but this one was different so I wasn't sure and neither was he. Maybe it WAS poisonous!
So as an after thought I searched and searched online...it wasn't poisonous *oops* it was actually quite harmless. "doh!" But we were in a we'd rather be safe than sorry mode. We don't need another snake bite issue. So I guess we will have to treat the yard again with the snake away stuff...
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