Snake Dave
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Lmao, great short stories there clipclop. Oh me too, post here today to tell us you're okay. 
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Your wild experiences!
- Thread starter Snake Dave
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Yvonne112
Mom of HEI\IDRIX
I took part in a fundraiser for Cancer called Relay for Life, where we took turns walking laps around an outdoor stadium all night long to raise money. They had events set up for us, and one was a person from Reptilia. He brought several snakes, and a baby alligator. The mouth was taped up for our protection, so we could hold it. When I held him, he peed all over me, and I swear, I had no idea that any animal other than an elephant would pee so much. It was as if someone had just dumped a bucket on me. It was so fast and furious!!! LOL, before I knew it, I was standing in a big puddle, and one side of me was totally soaked. The good thing is that it was clear and had no smell, but it was still very gross, not to mention uncomfortable, as I had no change of clothing, so I had to just wait until it dried. I just laughed it off (but was totally embarassed). My husband took a picture right after it happened.
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MerlinsPop
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Here's a few of mine...
- Just last night I got within 5 feet of a skunk while walking my dog. It plowed through some tall grass that Merlin had just finished 'marking' as his own. Thankfully, Merlin had already moved on, and I was upwind (the lil stinker took a shot at me as I was "moving out smartly").
I grew up in Louisiana, so I had plenty of interactions with wild critters:
- Found 3 baby armadillos in my yard one day. Put them in a cardboard box in the garage. Next day big hole in box and no 'dillos. Found and released two back into the woods that day. Found the third one something like a month later, rolled up in a plastic tarp, still alive. Gave it water for a day and released it.
- Used to go "Water Moccasin" hunting with a buddy. On cool mornings, we'd go to a storm water treatment pond that was full of 'em. They'd be laying along the bank of the pond or sunning in bush branches above the water's edge. We'd sneak up and smack them with long sticks. They'd usually shoot off into the middle of the pond and turn to look and see what the heck just happened. That was in my dumb days. I'll let you know when that passes.
- Clearing dead twigs and leaves of vines from our back yard's fence one afternoon, I grabbed a big fat twig that was intertwined in the green vines. One end rattled; the other end tried to whip around and tag me, but couldn't cuz of all the vines in the way. Pop dug up all the vines the next day.
- Loads and loads of box turtles came and went.
- Found a snake that turned out to be a King native of Central or South America, as ID'd by an Army Vet who wanted to buy it from me a week after I gave him a polaroid picture of it. I had let it go the day before.
There's a ton more, but I can't remember them.
I was also an Army Infantry Officer in an earlier life, and here are 4 wild animal interactions from that period:
- Unknowingly walking up to a bunch of turkeys on a dark, silent night is bad for one's heart. When they all take flight at once, it sounds like a herd of horses galloping by and can set off a firefight with nothing.
- When tiptoeing across a long beaver damn, on an even darker, more silent night, a well timed 'tail slap' on the water right next to you is not very entertaining. Pulling the guy out of the pond who lept the other way when the beaver did the tail slap is entertaining. For us, and probably for the beaver.
- three toed sloths in Panama stink to high heaven when they decide to hang out in the branches above your sleeping bag.
- Once had to gingerly climb into a fighting position (aka 'foxhole') at the National Training Center (one valley away from Death Valley, California) and carefully scoop up a sidewinder that joined one of my squad leaders in there. It wasn't all that big, but the longest thing I had was a folding shovel (E-Tool). Scooped it up, and carried it about a 100 yards away before depositing it under a bush.
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- Just last night I got within 5 feet of a skunk while walking my dog. It plowed through some tall grass that Merlin had just finished 'marking' as his own. Thankfully, Merlin had already moved on, and I was upwind (the lil stinker took a shot at me as I was "moving out smartly").
I grew up in Louisiana, so I had plenty of interactions with wild critters:
- Found 3 baby armadillos in my yard one day. Put them in a cardboard box in the garage. Next day big hole in box and no 'dillos. Found and released two back into the woods that day. Found the third one something like a month later, rolled up in a plastic tarp, still alive. Gave it water for a day and released it.
- Used to go "Water Moccasin" hunting with a buddy. On cool mornings, we'd go to a storm water treatment pond that was full of 'em. They'd be laying along the bank of the pond or sunning in bush branches above the water's edge. We'd sneak up and smack them with long sticks. They'd usually shoot off into the middle of the pond and turn to look and see what the heck just happened. That was in my dumb days. I'll let you know when that passes.
- Clearing dead twigs and leaves of vines from our back yard's fence one afternoon, I grabbed a big fat twig that was intertwined in the green vines. One end rattled; the other end tried to whip around and tag me, but couldn't cuz of all the vines in the way. Pop dug up all the vines the next day.
- Loads and loads of box turtles came and went.
- Found a snake that turned out to be a King native of Central or South America, as ID'd by an Army Vet who wanted to buy it from me a week after I gave him a polaroid picture of it. I had let it go the day before.
There's a ton more, but I can't remember them.
I was also an Army Infantry Officer in an earlier life, and here are 4 wild animal interactions from that period:
- Unknowingly walking up to a bunch of turkeys on a dark, silent night is bad for one's heart. When they all take flight at once, it sounds like a herd of horses galloping by and can set off a firefight with nothing.
- When tiptoeing across a long beaver damn, on an even darker, more silent night, a well timed 'tail slap' on the water right next to you is not very entertaining. Pulling the guy out of the pond who lept the other way when the beaver did the tail slap is entertaining. For us, and probably for the beaver.
- three toed sloths in Panama stink to high heaven when they decide to hang out in the branches above your sleeping bag.
- Once had to gingerly climb into a fighting position (aka 'foxhole') at the National Training Center (one valley away from Death Valley, California) and carefully scoop up a sidewinder that joined one of my squad leaders in there. It wasn't all that big, but the longest thing I had was a folding shovel (E-Tool). Scooped it up, and carried it about a 100 yards away before depositing it under a bush.
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Snake Dave
Schrödinger's cat
Yvonne112 said:
Lmao what a night! Well first of all well done in participating in that event. My Mother also took part in something similar to that. It was called Race for Life, also a fundraising event for Cancer. She, along with thousands of others had to walk roughly 6 miles around the parks and countryside surrounding my town.
But back to the picture, look, the alligator has his 'little' man out!
Snake Dave
Schrödinger's cat
MerlinsPop said:
What a wonderful set of stories, you added some nice variety and depth there, thank you.
This thread's growing quite a bit, hopefully we can get at least one story from everybody.
Snake Dave
Schrödinger's cat
Lmao yeah, very forward for the first date! And he did his business on you, well I wouldn't advise a second. :roflmao:
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Spent most of my life in countryside. Most in Ohio but some in Utah, Texas, Florida and Europe. Too many stories to list. Wild snakes, coons, groundhogs, opossum, deer, rabbits, squirrels, birds, fox, etc are almost daily occurrence. Here are a few that stick out.
When I was like 8 yrs old a friend and I were camping out in woods maybe a 1/4 mile from house. We had junk food that night. Leaving the tent doors open makes for a great surprise when you are woken up by a momma coon and 3 babies looking for left overs.
At about 12 yrs old we were walking in an old creek bed about 6 feet deep and 4 to 5 feet wide. We heard noise that got louder and louder so we decided to look up over edge just as we climbed to peer over 3 does and a buck hurdled the creek right over our heads.
When I was in AF in Utah we went up in mountains to go hiking. We used to drive to near peaks and then hike around. One day we saw a moose near a pond drinking. We decided (not so smartly) to get a closer look we got to about 200 yards away about that time she turned and her calf got up out of the brush between her and us. NOT a good thing. She immediately thought we were a threat. I have never run so fast in my life. By the time we got back to the tree line and off the ground she was almost on us. We sat in the tree for 2 hours waiting on her to get far enough away that we could feel safe getting down. Nothing worse than 2 hours in a sticky pine tree with a mad moose stalking you.
Was at in-laws in New Mexico a few years back. Was carrying groceries in for my mother-in-law from car port. I have two bags and their dog came running over barking at something near my feet. About that time I felt a swipe at my pant leg. The dog went crazy barking by the time I realized it was a rattle snake that I had almost stepped on and it struck but only hit my pant leg. At that point he was more worried about the dog then me and I got a few steps away and called the dog off and it quickly left.
Just recently went out to car in early morning to go to work. I opened door and threw backpack in car and turned to sit and was looking eye to eye about 5 feet away with an Alpaca in my driveway. He wasn't exactly wild but had gotten free from a farm up the road. But the startle of turning to see its shadowy figure before dawn made my heart skip a beat.
When I was like 8 yrs old a friend and I were camping out in woods maybe a 1/4 mile from house. We had junk food that night. Leaving the tent doors open makes for a great surprise when you are woken up by a momma coon and 3 babies looking for left overs.
At about 12 yrs old we were walking in an old creek bed about 6 feet deep and 4 to 5 feet wide. We heard noise that got louder and louder so we decided to look up over edge just as we climbed to peer over 3 does and a buck hurdled the creek right over our heads.
When I was in AF in Utah we went up in mountains to go hiking. We used to drive to near peaks and then hike around. One day we saw a moose near a pond drinking. We decided (not so smartly) to get a closer look we got to about 200 yards away about that time she turned and her calf got up out of the brush between her and us. NOT a good thing. She immediately thought we were a threat. I have never run so fast in my life. By the time we got back to the tree line and off the ground she was almost on us. We sat in the tree for 2 hours waiting on her to get far enough away that we could feel safe getting down. Nothing worse than 2 hours in a sticky pine tree with a mad moose stalking you.
Was at in-laws in New Mexico a few years back. Was carrying groceries in for my mother-in-law from car port. I have two bags and their dog came running over barking at something near my feet. About that time I felt a swipe at my pant leg. The dog went crazy barking by the time I realized it was a rattle snake that I had almost stepped on and it struck but only hit my pant leg. At that point he was more worried about the dog then me and I got a few steps away and called the dog off and it quickly left.
Just recently went out to car in early morning to go to work. I opened door and threw backpack in car and turned to sit and was looking eye to eye about 5 feet away with an Alpaca in my driveway. He wasn't exactly wild but had gotten free from a farm up the road. But the startle of turning to see its shadowy figure before dawn made my heart skip a beat.
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Snake Dave said:Lmao, great short stories there clipclop. Oh me too, post here today to tell us you're okay.
Well, I got back from my hike okay....
Unfortunately, my friends made me walk in front on the way back, and I surprised a five foot long rattler! Needless to say, my friends and I ended up adding about a mile to our hike to avoid it....gosh, it is sooooo good that I can identify rattlesnakes. I told them that if I walked in front I'd run into one....now they believe me! I really must attract them!
I saw a couple cute lizards too, though!