snakes

Hi dere I have snake story. It comes from the proverbial friend of a friend. Can someone either back me up on it or call me dumb as a box of hair for believing it?

Lady has huge, as in person-length, pet adder which she keeps in her house and is very playful etc with, to the extent of letting it sleep in her bed. All is well until it stops eating the mice and whatever else it gets fed every day. Also it keeps doing this weird thing where it makes itself dead straight and plonks itself next to her. Lady is all "UH" and takes it to the vet to see what's going on. The vet says, sorry but we're going to have to put this thing down - it's not ill but it's been starving itself and being strange cos it's preparing to EAT YOU.

This is pretty wild but I checked Snopes which had nothing and I can't be arsed to trawl through however many sources of snake-related info right now.

Snakes don't eat that often, really. My friend has a 2.5 foot ball python and it gets a mouse or two a week. Also, they're poisonous, and like any snake they eat all their food in one swallow: I really doubt it would eat something as large as her, and if it did, it would bite her first.

It soes sound fun to have a cuddly pet snake tho!

"I don't want to eat you, but I must confess: I only love you for your internally regulated body temperature."

do not like. when I was a kid, most of nightmares involved snakes.

One time when I was about 13 my two dogs were at the end of our driveway barking like maniacs. I strolled down to see what was the fuss only to find what appeared to be a toad (I had already taken my contacts out for the evening, so it was a little blurry). I leaned in to get a closer look and when my face was about 20 inches from the ground, I realized they had been barking at a baby copperhead that was coiled and ready to strike. And strike it did, springing to all of about 7 inches from the tip of my nose. *shiver*

I don't really mind them if they're non-poisonous.

ball pythons are not venomous, abbott.

i have been bitten, constricted, and musked on by a lot of black rat snakes. they used to be my favorite plaything, and i would find one about one a week in the woods.

I had an obsession with snakes and reptiles for a few years. I used to beg my mom to get me a ball python for a pet! Then I lost interest.

I had a neighbor who had a pet rattlesnake, and he'd let me and my brother watch it feed. I thought it was awesome! And it was.

One time when I was in fifth grade a copperhead appeared on the front porch. My mom killed it.

I had an idea for a movie about a killer anaconda in the jungle. Then that movie came out.

Snake Thoughts

"Snakes. Why does it have to be snakes?!"

I hate hate hate snakes. Even non-poisonous ones. Few animals terrify me as much as these slithery things.

I like iguanas though. I'm still wondering whether I should get one as a pet, but I've heard they can be pretty difficult to care for.

Snakes are really cool, you should try to get to know/understand them more. They're amazing creatures!

That's a pretty funny/interesting story btw, Mencap.

snakes are amazing, but second to toads in my hierarchy of amphibians/reptiles.

http://www.thelizardguys.com/images/Stash_409x307.JPG

i just don't like the way they move.

xpost whoa that is one fat toad.

cane toads are the worst tho.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_Toad#Australia

Also, bad purse: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Agarkroete_fg4.jpg/300px-Agarkroete_fg4.jpg

ball pythons are not venomous, abbott.

Sorry, bad transition, unspecified pronouns. Neither snakes eat a lot, ADDERS are venomous: the adder would've bitten her first.

Pythons are just like Lemmy from Of Mice & Men. They just don't know when to quit hugging.

Okay, does anyone remember that couplet to differentiate the Scarlet Snake and the venomous Coral Snake?

Red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow.
Red touches black, you're okay, Jack.

IT COULD just as easily be:

Red touches yellow, you're okay, fellow.
Read touches black, you're dead, Jack.

SO NOT EASILY MEMORABLE! I get mixed up on these things, why you do this to me, makers of herpetology mnemonics?

W4LTER you probably knew this but cane toads are pretty much only known for getting you HIGH in the U.S., not as one of the huge non-native biological disasters other nations have inflicted on the delicate and wonderful ecology of Australia.

Back in April in the Mojave Desert I answered the call of nature in the middle of the night behind a bush that had what I thought was a plastic bag caught in it and blowing in the wind. It turned out to be a Mojave Desert Sidewinder rattlesnake about 2 feet from my rear end. He was mad but I couldn't blame him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2007/11/snakes_in_the_grass.shtml

Titanoboa made anaconda look like a garter snake
http://images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20090205/wsnake05/0205snake800big.jpg

being made into a sci-fi channel movie... now.

The researchers named the snake Titanoboa. From the size of its vertebrae they estimate it was 13 metres long and a metre wide, which means it would have had trouble squeezing through a modern doorway. It weighed 1,140 kilograms.

im imagining this thing wiggling across a highway or spiralling itself up an elavator shaft or maybe wrapping itself around the town square christmas tree and i think we should bring them back, through science, just for all the laffs they could bring

san francisco garter snake. best snake

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4038/4659452478_3275466af9_b.jpg

i rest my case

bright colors like that are usually warnings to potential predators: beware, danger! very sneaky of a garter snake to look like that.