Star*
call 911........call 911
Pootie went outside yesterday in the back yard. We hear barking, barking barking...I go out and see what in the world is going on and to my shock and horror?
There in the cornere of the yard is our Princess Pootie - the meek, the mild, the lovely baby.....SHAKING A SNAKE. Not just any snake from what I can see - and living near a lake and swamp, already having had water moccaisns on the tops of our doors? I'm thinking 'Holy Serpents' this kid has the devil in her jaws!!!
I screamed "DROP IT!!" and she did. The snake shot across the grass and headed for the high grass.
I got Pootie inside and got dressed, got a make-shift snake pole, aquarium, gloves, boots and went back out to see if I was right. There in the grass, all flatened out was a black snake with what looked like vampire holes in his tail section - so NOW I have an angry, injured snake. Great! When I reached down with the pole? He sat up like a little cobra - oh how cute was that? (not much)
Any way once I yelled the boys came running, and I had to make THEM stay back. Tried to get this guy on a pole (not happening) DF came running out because my MOM tells him "Star is out there pretending to be that crazy Man from Australia and you know she'll pick up the d*#m thing." So HE comes running out. Now the only thing missing is an Elephant and a man on stilts.
So without hesitation DF picks up the aquarium and I'm thinking "WOW he's gonna help!." I'm trying to hook this guy and next thing I know DF slams the aquarium over top the snake. DONE. Slides cardboard underneeth him - shaking like an Aspen in the Fall. (I'm just watching the snake and identifying him as a common yet beautiful blacksnake) and he says WHERES THE LID WHERES THE LID? And I took the cardboard off and the man nearly has a heart attack - and I reached in as the little guy strikes and says "It's only a black snake, and he's really mad."
I'm not sure who was more angry at that point. lol
Anyway - Pooties Native name is now - Snake Charmer. (then you take on hand above your head and make the squiggle like a snake below your belly button) lol
So now in the wigwam of the Dragon-Donkey Ranch we have
Spotted Elk, Big Like Bull smell Like Buffalo, and Snake Charmer. All living peaceful by the waters of the Silver Lake.
Is it just OUR family that lives on the other side of the Twilight zone?
Black Racer
and just for kicks - what it could have been -
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=juvenille+water+moccaisn&qpvt=juvenille+water+moccaisn&FORM=Z7FD#focal=1468a6a0da54d09886dc9d24bd64a365&furl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/Agkistrodon_piscivorus_leucostoma.jpg/220px-Agkistrodon_piscivorus_leucostoma.jpg
There in the cornere of the yard is our Princess Pootie - the meek, the mild, the lovely baby.....SHAKING A SNAKE. Not just any snake from what I can see - and living near a lake and swamp, already having had water moccaisns on the tops of our doors? I'm thinking 'Holy Serpents' this kid has the devil in her jaws!!!
I screamed "DROP IT!!" and she did. The snake shot across the grass and headed for the high grass.
I got Pootie inside and got dressed, got a make-shift snake pole, aquarium, gloves, boots and went back out to see if I was right. There in the grass, all flatened out was a black snake with what looked like vampire holes in his tail section - so NOW I have an angry, injured snake. Great! When I reached down with the pole? He sat up like a little cobra - oh how cute was that? (not much)
Any way once I yelled the boys came running, and I had to make THEM stay back. Tried to get this guy on a pole (not happening) DF came running out because my MOM tells him "Star is out there pretending to be that crazy Man from Australia and you know she'll pick up the d*#m thing." So HE comes running out. Now the only thing missing is an Elephant and a man on stilts.
So without hesitation DF picks up the aquarium and I'm thinking "WOW he's gonna help!." I'm trying to hook this guy and next thing I know DF slams the aquarium over top the snake. DONE. Slides cardboard underneeth him - shaking like an Aspen in the Fall. (I'm just watching the snake and identifying him as a common yet beautiful blacksnake) and he says WHERES THE LID WHERES THE LID? And I took the cardboard off and the man nearly has a heart attack - and I reached in as the little guy strikes and says "It's only a black snake, and he's really mad."
I'm not sure who was more angry at that point. lol
Anyway - Pooties Native name is now - Snake Charmer. (then you take on hand above your head and make the squiggle like a snake below your belly button) lol
So now in the wigwam of the Dragon-Donkey Ranch we have
Spotted Elk, Big Like Bull smell Like Buffalo, and Snake Charmer. All living peaceful by the waters of the Silver Lake.
Is it just OUR family that lives on the other side of the Twilight zone?
Black Racer
and just for kicks - what it could have been -
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=juvenille+water+moccaisn&qpvt=juvenille+water+moccaisn&FORM=Z7FD#focal=1468a6a0da54d09886dc9d24bd64a365&furl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/Agkistrodon_piscivorus_leucostoma.jpg/220px-Agkistrodon_piscivorus_leucostoma.jpg
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