corn snakes are not lap snakes; give them anything less than 100% of your attention for 15 seconds and they’ve gone over your shoulder, through your blankets, rearranged their tank, texted your ex, hailed a cab, and stolen the declaration of independence
We had two mulch piles in the back yard when I was growing up. They stayed warmer than the ground for the whole year, and come September, they’d become Snaketropolis. My mother says that her memories of me as a toddler are filled with images of a wild-haired child with scabby knees and multiple garter snakes clenched in each fist, like some kind of juvenile Minoan goddess.
The shed in back was home to a rat snake. We rarely saw it up close, but sometimes I’d sneak into the shed and glimpse its shiny black coils retreating from a patch of sunlight. It would leave long, perfect shed skins draped over tools or piles of wood, and I would collect these with utter reverence.
i think it is good to warn people in advance about the circumstances that will cause you to bite them and i think that having given that warning it is good to follow through when the time comes
the rattlesnake is an admirable creature whose virtues we should emulate
The rattlesnake I met while hiking seemed an agreeable girl. She said “I am here, please do not step on me,” and my companions and I made sure to not do that. I found her nicer and more charitable than many politicians.
Thinks it’s cool to kill snakes. Also reblogged a picture of my snake and attached a picture of a very bloody rattlesnake.
I’m afraid he’s one of those tuff mans who goes into the snake tag and reblogs nasty antisnake stuff just to get attention. Poor boo.
Actually, he reblogged it from me. The fact of the matter is that in the part of rural America where he and I live, rattlesnakes are a destructive and invasive species, that are very detrimental to the inner-workings of rural land. Your ignorance to this is understandable as you seem like a metropolitan raised person, which is fine, but it doesn’t change the fact that even if we had one tenth the amount of rattlesnakes we do, we’d still have too many. They kill cattle, pets, and people. They destroy the homes of other woodland creatures, and they disrupt the ecosystem.
Sometimes, people have to kill things to produce a quality of life, and being born and raised in that brings with it a de-sensitization to many things, one of them being the lives of slithering cancer.
And for the record, your reaction was absolutely uncalled for, and very immature.
All of this is no reason to add a picture of a maimed animal TO A POST ABOUT SOMEBODY’S PET. That’s like if I put a picture of a recently mauled to death bait dog onto somebody’s post about their puppy. Unacceptable.
Also: I grew up in rural southern Indiana. There were maybe 10,000 people in my whole county; more than 75% of the land is ag land. My nearest neighbor is a horse farm, and the biggest industry in the area is turkey farming, followed by hogs. Where I’m from, people respect snakes because they keep mice and rats out of the feed barn. Rodents are one of the biggest threats to any ag industry– the threat to grain farmers is obvious, but they’ll get into cattle feed just as easily as they get into any other stored crop. Don’t use an agrarian lifestyle as an excuse for ignorance or churlish behavior- it makes the rest of us look bad.
However, having a look through your blog, I honestly don’t think you care. I think maybe you get off on rustling jimmies and just being a dick in general- what’s your line, you can’t get offended if you’re not a little bitch?
And- ah, yes, you’re 19 and going to teach our kids math.
Just block and move on, folks. This one’s all hat and no cattle.
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