Like the fourth snake I’ve seen in the last two weeks around our new house. Hell is real. Fortunately all I’ve seen is this black racer, rat snakes, and a small king.
Wonder what the little guy was doing in our yard. We dont have a creek or anything very close. There is a lake a couple miles away though. After the nasty storm went by I put him out by one of the holes under the fence from the groundhogs and he dipped out.
Are there still horney toads around? I used to catch those things all the time when I was a kid but we always let them go. I haven't seen one in years.
they tend to move around after heavy rains. my inlaws had one in their backyard last year after a series of thunderstorms and like you, the closest water is a couple miles away
Came within about 5 feet of a very large snapper once. Was freshwater fishing in a state park about 10 years ago, thought I had hooked into some type of immovable object underwater. Eventually though the line made it to shore and there was a snapper on the end of it that had to have weighed closed to 100 lbs. Cut the line and called the lure a loss. Wasnt worth putting my hands anywhere near his head.
One of my mom's friends had one in a cooler on their porch when I was a kid. They lived in Louisiana and we stopped to visit on the drive from Houston to SC. Guess her oldest son had caught it earlier that day. I'm sure part of it was because I was like 6 years old but I swear that things head was the size of mine. No idea how he caught that thing and got it home alive.
I was hand grabbing for catfish back in college, first time I’ve ever been. Heard a guy in a bit nearby start screaming. Snapper took a bite out of his hand. Luckily he didn’t lose a finger but huge gash, broken bone in his hand. I caught about 4-5 catfish before I saw that. Afterwards I was like I’m done, check this off my bucket list.
We used to have them all over the place in central Oklahoma but I haven't seen one in probably 10 years.
I was told the fire ants in central Texas killed em off here I've actually seen some red ants around in the last year or so, so I am hopeful that's a good sign the fire ants #s are dwindling
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I've caught and eaten snapping turtle before. My grandfather and I used a trot line with chicken gizzards, just threw it into the river and went further down to fish. We returned a few hours later to find about a 35 lbs snapping turtle, it fit perfectly into the spare tire in the car trunk. We fried it and made turtle soup and it was surprisingly good. My grandparents are hillbillies.
Turtle soup with snapping turtle meat is delicious. Wish I would have my grandparents recipe before they passed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-python/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.78221e68d03a A woman went to check her corn — and was swallowed by a python For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python. Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield Thursday night, according to the Jakarta Post. The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world. The snakes normally feed on smaller mammals. Attacks on humans are supposed to be as rare as winning the lottery and being struck by lightning at the same time, as Amy B Wang wrote in a Washington Post report. Nevertheless, just such a horror took place on an adjacent island last year, when a man's body was extracted from a 23-foot-long python, in an incident captured for a gruesome YouTube video. Tiba had been concerned about wild boars, not so much snakes, as she walked through her cornfield that night, the Jakarta Post reported. The pigs had been raiding the crops lately, thus the inspection. When she had not returned by sunrise, her sister went to the field to look for her. She found only Tiba's footprints, her flashlight, her machete and slippers. In the morning on Friday, about 100 people from the village of Persiapan Lawela combed the fields, Agence France-Presse reported. They found the snake a few dozen yards from Tiba's belongings. It was 23 feet long and so bloated it could barely move. A long bulge midway down its body had a foreboding look to it. The villagers killed the snake and laid it out on the ground. The villagers crowded around it, clamoring and crying, with some making videos as a man knelt and carefully cut across the bulge with a machete. He parted the snake flesh, and the result was much as it had been on the other island a year earlier. Tiba lay intact inside the snake, clothed just as she had been when she went to check the corn. She probably didn't die inside the snake: A reticulated python secures its prey with a bite, then wraps its body around the victim, squeezing down until the victim cannot breathe, before consuming, according to the Associated Press. At least, that's what they normally do. It's so rare for humans to be eaten, The Post reported, that it's more common to see hoaxes. A single photo of a snake digesting a pig has been used to falsely claim attacks on humans in China, Africa and across Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, however, two people have now lost to great odds.
Such cool snakes. That’s an identical twin to the one I caught and kept as a pet for a while. I named him Sandoozler. He started biting the shit out of me and I started to get worried about the bacteria. Plus I’m blind as a bat and I walked over to my desk and felt around for my glasses and when I put them on Sandoozler was sitting there ready to fuck me up. Damn near made me crap my pants at 7 am. I decided it was time to release him back to where he wanted to be.
Welp my day is ruined. Big dumb fuck with our office facilities thinks he’s got a fucking pit viper trapped in the bushes and is actively trying to kill it right outside my office window. I’m pretty sure it’s just a water snake.
He couldn’t find it. He abandoned the mission. I walked out there and he’s all “it’s a pit viper, i watch a lot of animal shows and I’ve got books.” I told him that unless he’s getting in there with it, he’s wasting time because it’s not coming out. I said call animal control or you’re going to stand out here looking like a dumbass with a rake.