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RE: Snake that said Hi to me. What is it?

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Posted by: chrish at Tue May 11 16:32:15 2010  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chrish ]  
   

I threw it away from me twice with the rake and once I hit it with the flat of the comb rake it went under some rocks vs. come back my way.

Snakes don't "come back your way", even large snakes. That is simply an old wives tail. Many of us on here have dealt with thousands of wild snakes and it just doesn't happen in spite of the urban (rural) legends.

What you did was maim a completely harmless (actually beneficial slug-eating) garden resident and the leave it to crawl off and suffer a slow agonizing death. You very likely broke its back, and it will be forced to drag that paralyzed posterior around until it starves to death over several weeks or months.

If you feel the need to kill the animal in your yard, which is completely understandable, make sure you kill it outright. If you have to hit it 10x with the rake, finish the job.

Not trying to lecture, just don't like see animal's suffer needlessly.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas


   

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