snake threads

[xman59]

all these snake threads got to to thinking about how my city girl wife is adapting to living in the woods .... i learned with my wife i get a better description if i always lead her with "was it long skinny and black, In that case it is all good"..... then she actually stops to think about what she saw and and give me a much better idea if i need to go stomping around with the 44 and rat shot,,,
so how do you wives an significant others act around snakes? Do they freak, take care of business or shrug it off, and calmly say O' i saw a snake today...

[TXHUNT3R]

I was raised country, my wife...... Yeah she is scared of her own shadow.... lol

[crawdaddct]

all these snake threads got to to thinking about how my city girl wife is adapting to living in the woods .... i learned with my wife i get a better description if i always lead her with "was it long skinny and black, In that case it is all good"..... then she actually stops to think about what she saw and and give me a much better idea if i need to go stomping around with the 44 and rat shot,,,
so how do you wives an significant others act around snakes? Do they freak, take care of business or shrug it off, and calmly say O' i saw a snake today...

My wife freaks and calls me. If im out of town there is a snake guy in Houston that will normally come out and remove them for a small fee. We live in suburbs, but you cant tell. House is on a green belt. Right now with all this rain we are battling snakes, rats, raccoons, and opossums.

Now my great grandma, she use to grab those snakes by the tail and snap them like a whip, pop the head clean off, when she would catch them in her chicken coop. At least that's the story I was told as a kid.

[Playa]

My wife told me, after buying her snake leggings, if I see a snake out there, the hunt is over and I'm not leaving the cabin until we go home!

At least she is protected from the knees down if we do run into one!

[dustoffer]

Wife grew up in the country on 53 ac in Missouri and saw lots of snakes in the yard. Her dad always took the L.C. Smith approach on one, so you can guess what her attitude might be. Couple of years back we were in the yard one spring trimming freeze-damaged ferns, etc. She reached down and picked up a wad of trimmings and next thing I hear is "Oh" and then "What kind of snake is this?" To which my answer was "RUN!" And "go get the shovel" as it was a small rattler about 12-15" long. Now she doesn't help with trimming needless to say.

[Deerguy]

I was working on the computer yesterday and looked out the window onto the front porch and saw a pretty good rat snake crawling off the porch and into the yard. Called the Mrs. to have a look. "Wow", she said, "how long do you think it is?" "Don't know," I replied, "have to catch it to see." So she went outside and a few minutes later came back with it. Measured out right at 60". Wasn't always this way, but she's a good hand around snakes now. Released him back on the porch.

[CabezaBlanca]

My wife can't stand anything reptile!

[Drycreek3189]

My wife freaks and calls me. If im out of town there is a snake guy in Houston that will normally come out and remove them for a small fee. We live in suburbs, but you cant tell. House is on a green belt. Right now with all this rain we are battling snakes, rats, raccoons, and opossums.

Now my great grandma, she use to grab those snakes by the tail and snap them like a whip, pop the head clean off, when she would catch them in her chicken coop. At least that's the story I was told as a kid.

My Dad did that, but I could never master it. I tried it with a chicken snake a couple times, but after the last one wound up around my neck, I went back to the tried and true hoe or shovel. And before you snake lovers castigate me, this was fifty years ago on the farm, and NO snake made it out alive !

[xman59]

I was working on the computer yesterday and looked out the window onto the front porch and saw a pretty good rat snake crawling off the porch and into the yard. Called the Mrs. to have a look. "Wow", she said, "how long do you think it is?" "Don't know," I replied, "have to catch it to see." So she went outside and a few minutes later came back with it. Measured out right at 60". Wasn't always this way, but she's a good hand around snakes now. Released him back on the porch.

only way my wife would ever catch one would be if it feel out of a tree on her,,of course i would be a widower immediately if that happened!

[bowtechbandit]

my wife thinks I kill all snakes, she would be ****** if she knew that I just go throw them in the wood behind the house! she hates all snakes they will all kill you in your face just for looking at them. just ask her. I brought a rat snake up to the back door that I found in the yard about a month ago she flipped out/****** off, literally had nightmares about snakes that night!!

[clayg08]

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[Quackedup]

My Wife was raised in a small town. She used to stomp through the "woods" behind her house. She would carry a BB gun and shoot cans and such. Fast forward a few years and now she doesn't even like walking through the grass barefoot because there are bugs. She loves to camp, so long as there is a camper with AC, and or heat, and with a working TV. I have no doubt that if she saw a snake she would hyperventilate, twist her ankle or knee trying to run away, and end up sobbing as she told me about the monster she happened upon that almost took her life. Then I would have to pry her off my head so I could see what was going on and determine the lethality of the before mentioned monster.

[Doc Peter]

My Dad did that, but I could never master it. I tried it with a chicken snake a couple times, but after the last one wound up around my neck, I went back to the tried and true hoe or shovel. And before you snake lovers castigate me, this was fifty years ago on the farm, and NO snake made it out alive !

I watched my dad use a 7 iron on one once at Bayou Den Country Club. Probably his best golf shot of the day, at least the head hit the fairway.

[Phillip Fields]

If my wife sees a snake, she grabs one of her cameras and tries to get a picture of it.

[bowtechbandit]

My Dad did that, but I could never master it. I tried it with a chicken snake a couple times, but after the last one wound up around my neck, I went back to the tried and true hoe or shovel. And before you snake lovers castigate me, this was fifty years ago on the farm, and NO snake made it out alive !

I saw my Gdad do it once, I tried it several times, you only got one shot at it. if you don't pop the head off on the first time I could never make it pop off. I did do it a couple times and it was awesome!!! like you said though, I have come down with one and slap myself in the legs with it. figured I better give it up!