If anything, you deserve a medal for most courageous pet owner ever. Handling snakes that are venomous and not using standard precautions is manly as f#ck.
Yea...we were naïve back then as I was about ten or eleven. That was before we got into pythons and boas. My first experience with a python was in my friend's front yard and his brother had his reticulated python out and it was as long as the house. He laid it over my neck and that sucker was so huge. That's the one that escaped when he passed out at a drive-in movie. lol. I obviously learned a lot dealing with the latter non-venomous...as there were like four or five of them we kept together at my friend's house. I started out keeping my python at the friend's house but, eventually, brought it home. I lost sleep on so many nights because of that snake. When I was going to sleep, he was just getting up and trying to escape the cage all night long. That is why...eventually...I had to just let him roam my room freely and stuff a towel under the door. I would usually find the python in the closet on the very top shelf. I never knew how it got up there? Found it in some interesting places in the house sometimes...like once in a big box of yarn all tangled in with it. My Mom was a freaking mess that whole time cause she hated snakes and was struck with fear. And, that whole ordeal of having to force feed a snake liquid food was a nightmare in itself. But, I learned a valuable lesson...snakes do not belong in captivity. What started out as cool became seriously uncool. Whenever I hear stories about people who come home and find a python in their house/bathroom having got in the way of the toilet plumbing, that does not surprise me at all in the slightest. Those snakes are crafty sons-of-b****es.
Unneeded editing Part 2: lame joking aside, I think your experience with snakes is pretty cool surfguy
Rat Snake .. First one of these I killed ,was about that size and super aggressive , was actually chasing me . They do look a lot like rattlesnakes to the normal person but are really good to have around your property
Rat snake. It's a shame people kill snakes just because...they're snakes. These are non-venomous/non-threatening snakes that can be a huge benefit. Years ago I had a mice problem in my attic. One day I saw a 5'+ rat snake in my garage. Withing 4-5 days...no sights nor sounds of mice.
If fat people have a lobbying group for acceptance, surely snakes and spiders can get one. Most of them are totally beneficial. Snakes do give me the heebs though. Just interacted with too many nasty ones as a little kid in TX. rattlesnakes, cotton mouths and copper heads by the time I was six. But I try to be educated.
