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You HAVE TO tape Kingsnakes mouth shut when you breed them in captivity so they do not eat each other.....
When I asked this pet store genius what he thought snakes do in the wild he looked pretty confused and walked away. LMAO!
Say NO to drugs! LOL!!!!!!! Tom Stevens

That my snake will never bite me. ( pet store owner told me that shes my first snake and an albino long banded kingsnake to boot.)

I had a Cal King for 12 years that bit or tried to bite me every single time I got near it, and I raised it since it came out of the egg. He did not read the book or any of the posts that suggest they may stop biting with frequent handling LOL. I still thought he was a great pet, and he was a lot of fun to own. I guess ya win some ya lose some. Tom Stevens

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I have done a bunch of pubilc expos(ie. Average family off the street) and have heard a ton of stupid comments but the worst was this weekend. I was doing a snake show and the guy across from me was talking about ten foot bull snakes and nine foot king snakes with 3-4 inch girths. This guy has a shop and had four tables at the show and made a ton more than me in sales ( I have nothing good right now) and was a complete idiot. The worst thing is this guy has a shop where he talks to the public on a daily basis. Just what we need more mis-information going out to the masses. He probably has been chased by cotton mouths up here in the Chicago area ( about 6 hours drive time from the north end of their range). I hate stupid people who have access to the public.

On the other end I had a little mexican that comes in to my shop swear to me that his families cows in Mexico had been drained by the local snakes of all their milk. At least he knows nothing of snakes.

Later Jason

Hey Jason. That reminds me of the days of my youth growing up near the Meadowlands in New Jersey, I used to go snakin near where Giant's Stadium now stands and old timers walking their dogs used to warn me about snakes. And I mean just about every type of snake you ever heard of including things not found within 1500 miles of there LOL. All I ever found there were Milks, Garters and Brown snakes. I WISH I coulda found more. Tom Stevens

This one was posted on the photo gallery a while ago, but i read it tonite...

Someone "rescued" a turtle from a garter snake that was about to eat it! When someone pointed out that garter snakes can't exactly eat a turtle 10 times the size of their head, he responded:
"Good point, snakes can't see the turtle because turtles are coldblooded."

Tim

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You can't go wrong with the "hoop snake" stories. You know, the ones that put their tails in their mouths and roll down hills in a big circle. No lie, I've heard that one before!

Then there's the old classic nest of moccasins story. The one where the water skier wrecked into the weeds and was bit to death because they landed in a "nest of moccasins." There's a few variations on this same theme. Every person I hear this from swears it's true, but can never quite seem to remember just where or when it happened.

Todd

Hey Todd, ever hear the one about the fisherman who would always catch the hugest bass consistently with his secret bait? He would never tell anyone till they found him dead at his fishin hole. In his bait bucket were baby Copperheads. I swear....it's true! LOL Tom Stevens

Todd, those are dandies. I work at a reservoir in California that fluctuates a great deal and has a lot of drift wood on the shores. Houseboaters claim that "rattlers" are driven from cover by high water and they form "big balls of snakes"...they truly believe it! Also, a girlfriends family, poorly educated from Missouri, truly believes in hoop snakes! I explained at a gathering they do not exist...and from them on I was known as the "smart a$# college kid"...
In the realm of cowboy humor, I like the story about two kingsnakes who took to eating each other, starting at the tails. Pretty soon, they both dissapeared! Regards, VIC

That common kings and hoop-snakes interbreed in Hawaii and produce get-hula hoopsnakes.

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Todd Hughes

My daughter works for a zoo. While giving a presentation on reptiles,she was asked this question twice,on two separate occasions. "If I set a snake on fire, can I see it's legs." It must be some urban legend that has been passed around.

I live in New Mexico and here are the 2 most common things I've heard.
My little brother and I had a running joke going when we were kids and it still holds true. If someone see's a snake in the mountains it automatically assumed to be a "timber rattler". If you see a snake in the desert its assumed to be a "diamond back".

We used to go camping and fishing in some local mountains when we were younger and I can't tell you the amount of times we would be warned about timber rattlers. There are no timber rattlers in the NM or the mountains of NM. Once we were driving along and several cars were stopped and a bunch of people were in the road mingling around. As we slowly drove past I noticed they were all looking at a big gopher (bull) snake coiled up on the road. We pulled over and I jumped out and went over to see it. As I was approaching it some guy yelled out to me get back its a "timber rattler". I went over and picked the snake up by the back of the head and walked straight over to the guy and showed him and his whole family that timber rattlers have rattles as I picked up its tail. All of the kids and some of the adults all wanted to touch and pet it.

The other "story" I still hear all the time is about someone lifting up a board in the desert and finding a female rattlesnake gaurding her nest of "eggs". LOL

Ever see the souvenier envelopes that say Rattlesnake eggs? You wind up a thingy inside and when you open the envelope it make a rattle sound and makes people jump outa thier skins LOL, even funnier they don't lay eggs LOL Tom Stevens

I still have one of those. A co-worker came up to me a long time ago and handed me one of those. He asked me if they were real rattlesnake eggs. I looked at the outside of the envelope and handed it back to him without looking in the envelope and told him in front of all our other co-workers that it could'nt be real because rattlesnakes don't lay eggs. He got all pissed of and threw the envelope at me and said that I just have to ruin every joke. LOL Everyone laughed at HIM.

What???????????????

Kerby...

Of course there's the one about rattlesnakes coiling up and then springing up many times their own length to attack.
Fortunately the lady who said that was openminded and very happy to be reassured they couldn't do that.
This is such a funny topic. ROTFL
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0.2 dog mutts (half ownership, only mine when they misbehave, Lucy & Amy)
0.1 Halflinger horse (Crissy)
0.1 Normal phase California Kingsnake (Sophia)
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Still searching for 1.0 WC human

A buddy of mine from England recently told me he saw a snake while walking his dog here in Texas. He said he knew better than to make eye contact it with it so it didn't attack him because of it LOL TOO FUNNY Tom Stevens

A lady my Dad works with said she would never kill another snake in her yard again, which is good in my opinion. But listen to her reasoning.......she said she killed a snake a couple of years ago with a garden hoe, and chopped it up into several pieces. She swears up and down that the thing pieced back together and slithered off!! Honestly, she believes it!! She said she was never messing with another snake again cause it was the devil.....LOL!!!

I thought you were gonna say she swore the peices all grew heads n tails and now her yard had a bunch of snakes in it LOL
Tom Stevens

I don't know if this is just a Texas thing or not but I heard a few times that copperheads are the fastest striking venomous snake in Texas. They are so fast you can cover them up with a 5 gallon bucket and shoot a bullet from a pistol or rifle into the upside down bucket. You will hit him in the head every time due to the fact that he will strike at the bullet at the point of entry and get shot in the head....LOL!
John Lassiter