Off topic - that will wake you up

AAAAARGH!

Felice

I don't love snakes, but I've been known to shoo one off my patio with a broom. Now if you were talking about big, slimy green toads, you would know what terror looked like.

Lucille

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

Not quite as bad as this from UK news 17 th May....................

11 year old boy sitting on toilet,when 2 1/2 foot Corn Snake appeared out of toilet bowl ! Who needs Aerobics to get the heartbeat up ? Lol

Oh dear! how did it get there?

Cheryl

It's thought that it either escaped or was abandoned by it's owner. There are some rotten people around ! :o(

A couple of times I have looked down in the toilet bowl, and seen a frog sitting in there looking up at me!! Quite un-nerving really LOL

Gill

Even though a stuffed Kermit sits above my kitchen cabinets, I have an irrational dislike for live frogs and/or toads. If I saw one in the bowl, you would probably hear my screams.

I`m with you, Fran - love snakes (#2 daughter has six) and, in fact am fine with most creatures - but what IS it about spiders? They just make me freeze inside!

Pat P

Not half as unnerving as it COULD be if you`d sat down and it jumped! LOL!

Pat P

pAT p

That wouldn`t be the first time it`s happened in the UK - a couple of years ago someone lost an eight foot python - and it went through the drainage systems and came up in someone`s toilet a mile or so away.

Only last year a fairly large python caused havoc in our local Tesco store when it was found amongst the fruit. I don`t think they ever found who it belonged to (They probably didn`t like to admit it) Unfortunately some people "release them" when they find they have grown much larger than they expected!

I`d be MUCH more scared if I found a big spider amongst the bananas as seems to happen all too often! Eeek!!! You wouldn`t see me for dust and small stones!

Pat P

You'd love my garden. It's a Certified Wildlife Habitat and I assure you there are many, many snakes back there. So far we've seen rat snakes, corn snakes and a Texas blind snake.

Just today my neighbor was freaking out and Mark and I went over and removed the snake from her mulch pile.

I would have snakes as pets, but I could never do the live food thing, and the frozen mice thing would not work, either.

That's become a major problem in Florida, as the pythons seem to thrive on the swampy ecosystem they have there. Some of them get larger than the gators & crocs, and are more dangerous.

Do you have poisenous snakes in England ? we have here Vipers , all over the country , and another one only in the south .....And Spiders , some are Ok , Just little neat Weavers , who can produce 8 different looks of nets...and most of them don`t harm us .... mirjam

it appears to

I was watching Animal Planet the other day and on one episode of the Miami Animal Police, some little old lady saw a snake in her house. She was sure it was a water moccasin (a very aggressive and poisonous snake), so she taped all her cabinets shut and called for help.

It turned out to be a corn snake and they eventually found him curled up inside the toilet plunger!

That`s what stops me - Jane has several Corn snakes and a Royal Python (I think) which will never grow to more than about four ft long, anyway. I think it`s illegal here to feed them live food - you have to kill them first (the food, not the snake).

Now you know that snakes only go to the loo every two or three weeks? It never fails - if I`m ever holding one of Jane`s they ALWAYS seem to go! I promise I don`t squeeze them! LOL! She often has to grab it off me and dangle it over the coal bucket!!!

Pat P

I think they only eat every few weeks, no? Makes sense if they do. Mika would attack a snake. She thinks she is much bigger than she actually is. She's attacked large dogs who've come to visit!

What fran says. Entirely.

Sara

The only "creepy crawly" that really gets on my nerves are centipedes and millipedes!

Cheryl