Posted by Kath on June 5, 2006, at 20:51:48
In reply to How Many Like Snakes Are They Friendly?, posted by Phillipa on June 5, 2006, at 20:10:37
My kids have had pet snakes - just wild ones. One was as small arouhnd as a thin pencil & about 5 inches long. Sooooo cute a DeKay's something-or-other. If you put him in your palm he'd curl up & if you pressed gently on him with fingertips he'd go to sleep!!!!!!
He was the tamest.
I don't know how you know. The constrictors can apparently make nice pets.
In Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, there are poisonous massassauga rattle snakes. Apparently if you get bitten by one it's tremendously painful but as long as you get to a hospital in I think it's an hour, you'll be fine. In Parry Sound, also there are Fox snakes, which look sorta like rattlesnakes & which pretend they're rattlers by flicking their tail in the grass or dry leaves. Once camping, I stepped into the grass to hang something on my rope clothesline I'd made & MOVEMENT!!!!!!! NOISE!!!!! I just about had a heart attack. I JUMPED back & away slid a beautiful Fox Snake. It was around 5 feet long. I followed it, but lost it in a nearby swamp. God, was I startled!!!!!
Kath
> Are snakes friendly? And how can you tell if they are poisonous? Doesn't it have something to do with shape of it's head? Love Phillipa
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