(September 1, 2016 at 2:18 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:(September 1, 2016 at 10:13 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Boy, you're really gonna love this then ... a red-striped racer crossing the street at the end of my driveway a few days ago:
I'm actually a huge fan of snakes. If someone has a pet one, I'm usually the first one asking for it to come out of the tank so I can hold it. I give wild ones respect and a wide berth, of course.
Until I worked at the nature preserve, I detested snakes. But over the last few years, I've come to appreciate the ecological role they play.
Not much on handling them (the old Baptist in me gets shitty thinking about that Pentecostal shit), but I'm not afraid to get up close to them. As long as you don't fuck with them, they're pretty laid-back.
About two foot from a rattler, and he was a little irked so I backed off: