My snake story.... (Dover, Monroe: movers, high school, living in)

[poconoproud]

When I first moved to this neighborhood, I had an interesting visitor. I just got home from grocery shopping, opened the car door, and I could swear I'm hearing snorting and grunting. I get out of the car and here is this little pot belly pig, snorting, grunting, and wagging it's pathetic excuse for a tail. It wouldn't leave either. So I started going throught the grocery bags. I fed him an apple, some fresh green beans, a cup cake. He just would have kept emptying the bags. when I tried to shoo it away and send it home, IT BIT MY KNEE. It came back from time to time, but he's been gone a long time.

[rockky]

Originally Posted by poconoproud

When I first moved to this neighborhood, I had an interesting visitor. I just got home from grocery shopping, opened the car door, and I could swear I'm hearing snorting and grunting. I get out of the car and here is this little pot belly pig, snorting, grunting, and wagging it's pathetic excuse for a tail. It wouldn't leave either. So I started going throught the grocery bags. I fed him an apple, some fresh green beans, a cup cake. He just would have kept emptying the bags. when I tried to shoo it away and send it home, IT BIT MY KNEE. It came back from time to time, but he's been gone a long time.

OK, Dr. Doolittle! What are we gonna do with our innate talents to commune with the animals?

Maybe we are supposed to build a boat....300 cubits by 80 cubits by 40 cubits.................

[The Commish]

Originally Posted by rockky

When we lived on an old farm, horses, various cats and dogs, a parakeet, and a lost turkey all showed up from nowhere......but a snake???!!???

Nothing was more surreal as last year when a merry band of turkeys roamed through the neighborhood on Thanksgiving Day.

They were asking for it!

[Summering]

Oh I'm up!!! Sorry I am late for the SNAKE story........I have been waiting for it.
( actually I have been running around this morning.........)

I just hate snakes...........But, I think the slither story is so cute. It was almost coming into your house to meet and greet you.

I have recently been reading about snake bites because our little fellow was bitten last year!!! Yes...........Here they were off the boat and a good mile in towards a falls area, with a pooled swimming spot ( a little hideaway)
Well, seems the little felllow moves a rock, the snake comes out and bites his hand.
So a 911 call was made. They head back to the boat and off to meet the EMS at the parking lot of the State Park.
They treated the wound, asked a lot of questions and then.......he was dismissed.

I did read just yesterday that non-venomous bites can be just as dangerous as a poisonous bite. It seems they tend to get infected and cause issues.
This article was saying how rare it is to get bitten by a snake........
We asked each other if we knew anyone but our little fellow who got bit..........No one knew any other person. ( except a story I knew of from decades ago)

Rockky, so glad you posted your story..........I think it is so cute.
Was he coming to say goodbye? Or is the little critter still up in some tree?
Reminds me to keep my garage doors closed at all times......you bettcha!!

[rockky]

Oh my goodness, Summering! That must have been an awful and frightening experience for your little guy and everyone!! An experience like that could put a whole new spin on my story.

I've read that all snakes have the potential to carry toxins. Vipers just have the fangs to inject venom and others do not. I thought it best not to try to pick Slither up without gloves....even a garter snake...well, I'm pretty sure he/she was a garter snake. He/she looked like the wrong shape to be a water snake. His/her head/eye shape was definitely not that of a viper.

I don't know where Slither is now. I talk to the trees each day seeing if he/she might reappear. Nothing yet.

[Summering]

Snakes in Pennsylvania

Here is some Pennsylvania facts.............
and the name of your TREE snake........Slither or Arboreal ( snakes that climb trees)

[poconoproud]

My dad always taught me that if you are out playing or out for a walk, and you smell cucumbers - beat butt outta there. He says that copperhead snakes have an odor of cucumbers.

[rockky]

I was told the same thing, poconoproud. My mom's version was that there is a nest of young close by. A friend of mine told me, last year about this time, of an acquaintance of she and her husband who was bitten by baby copperheads. She told me he was in very serious condition, and that the victim's doctors said that bites from several babies are worse than a single bite from an adult.

I have no idea if that is fact or not. This friend is not prone to drama or sensationalizing, so I don't doubt her statements. btw, this happened on the DELMARVA....not in PA.

[LNTT_Vacationer]

Neat stories. I was on my hands and knees cleaning the previous owner's stuff in the dark, damp crawl space of our cabin two years ago and I picked up what I thought was a discarded electrical cable. It moved and I actually picked it up again before it sunk in and I freaked. Luckily we'd just gone somewhere - Claw and Paws? -- and I'd just read the three characteristics of PA venomous snakes and saw he wasn't one. Still. . . I'll never go into that crawlspace again without getting chills. I know snakes and bats are both good guys to have about but they give me the willies.

[littlebunnie69]

When we first moved up here, There was a group of deer in the community I loved in. I know that deer are suppose to be cute ! but those deer scared me. they were so used to people that they would walk up to my front porch.

Snakes, I can live with just run into the house. but Deer I can imagine the damage they can do to a person and house.