<font color=skyblue>With the help of a friend, who is actually a member of this forum, but only appeared previously in the RP forum...we rescued a King Snake in my back yard. Never could I have guessed that I would be doing such a thing, though I know the worth of a king snake in my area. We have copperheads around here, as well as rats from the neighbor's house...so a king snake is a useful tool. But today I found the critter stuck in a mesh net everal times twisted, in my back yard, behind the shed. The net is very small and I do not know how it managed to get wound up in it so bad to begin with, but there it was. I called Gene over because he is the "know-what-to-do" man in my area. I held the poor thing while he snipped the mesh away from it's body. It took the better part of an hour to do so. It ejected a foul smelling liquid during the first part of the work that later proved almost impossible to wash away. I guess that was a security feature. Finally, after it was freed, it slthered home to a burrow under the fence that concealed it's residence. I'll have pictures up on Stealthy's today.</font>

You must be very proud of yourself ;) Snakes always have their uses I suppose, my uncle (whose name just happens to be Gene [img]smile.gif[/img] ) found a Black Snake about 4-5 feat long (or something like that) and they decided to let it go to keep other snakes away.

Hope the smell goes away [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Well good for you Larry. The world needs more people like you. Me? When I see spiders, ladybugs or other critters (except cockroaches and other pests) in my house, I take them gently outside or, with spiders, I just leave them alone. No harm no foul. But yeah! No need to kill unless they are harming someone else or yourself. Kudos to Larry! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Well snakes have a right to live as well, right, and to just leave it there in the mesh net would be cruel. It's good that you rescued it so kudos to you.

I don't know if you have any poisonous snakes in your area but if you do I hope you know what you're doing. We don't want to loose any dedicated members here at IW. :D ;)

I'll check out the pictures right now.

I'v gotten used to all the creatures that inhabit my house human and nonhuman :rolleyes: I have to say my cats bring in a lot of stuff that i don't want to see eaten by them, usually lizards, i'm a cat lover and strangely enough a lizard lover thanks to Warhammer and the fact that i collect lizardmen.

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Anyway never had any snakes enter my domain o.o, but then again there aren't many snakes present in Gibraltar that i know of.. [img]graemlins/arcadefreak.gif[/img] i'm having way too much fun with these smileys... [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img]

You didn't eat it ? I hear they taste like chicken. :D

Congrats Larry, Steve Irwin (the Croc. Hunter) would be proud. :D

It's really kind of you both to let the snake go [img]smile.gif[/img] Well done, BR! ;)

when I found a snake in my yard I'll capture it and feed it to my King Cobra. it likes to eat snakes.

Good for you Larry, giving the animal kingdom a helping hand is always a good thing [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

I'd always help out an animal, weither it's a snake, wolf, Choc Jr., doesn't matter, but bugs? Uhhh, those things just get under my skin for some reason.

(Snakes I can handle but can't stand roaches, weird isn't it? :rolleyes: )