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Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 9:15:28 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline Couple weeks ago while prowling a downtown area where some buildings were gonna be razed, I found these little rascals under some boards. There were 7 of them. As their chances for survival were practically nil , once demolition & excavation began, I caught them all , put them in a plastic bottle, took them home and placed them in my terrarium. The I went out & bought them some crickets to eat. Attachment (1) < Message edited by whiskeyman -- 4/22/2007 9:16:12 PM > _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com Post #: 1

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 9:18:44 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline They have been doing well. One died from unknown causes, but the other 6 have been munching down on crickets and growing. Today, I released them and watched them squirm their merry way through the rocks and grass. Good bye and good luck l'il snakes. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 2

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 9:29:32 PM    HAKZAW1   Posts: 11 Joined: 4/22/2007 Status: offline Did they ask for crickets??  Cant tell for sure from great photo, but I dont think that kind of snake eats crickets, earthworms maybe, more likely tiny snakes and lizards.  Was this in Tenn.?  For sure they an non-poisonous, 'ground /brown snake' not very good eatin', dont ge big.etc.     If not kept too warm and the are healthy --they wont starve for many weeks but give them fresh water DAILY(change water  bowl often) and mist them Give places to hid under , like where you found them.. and remember 'the only good snake is a alive, left-alone snake' they were here first. (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 3

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 10:20:21 PM    Digger George   Posts: 316 Joined: 10/5/2006 From: PHILAD'A PA Status: offline very inspirational brotha! you gota treat snakes with respect http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1248933044 _____________________________ "Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence." - Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish (in reply to HAKZAW1) Post #: 4

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 10:31:05 PM    Trying not to break it Posts: 2261 Joined: 12/18/2004 From: balt. md. Status: offline hi whiskeyman,  i'm so glad you came to there rescue.   rhona (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 5

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 10:33:05 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline "Did the snakes ask for crickets?"   Sure they did...even sent me an Email.   Maybe you better tell the snakes they don't eat crickets.I bought 4 dozen and there's about 8 crickets left.  Like I stated they were munching crickets and growing. How do I know they were growing ? They were shedding their skins. I always treat snakes with care and respect....unless poisonous and left with no other options...( which has happened but once in my 50 years of catching and keeping snakes as "temporary" pets.) _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to Digger George) Post #: 6

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 10:37:15 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline RHONA...Thanks. I try to aid and assist my fellow critters. I was amazed to even find them where they were. One block from the Main Street downtown and right off the edge of the Parkway. There's an abandoned junk yard, old house and another cinderblock building that  are due to be demolished.  No creek, no woods, just some scrub brush and weeds...and the boards they were under were right beside the parking lot's edge...Odd indeed. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 7

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 10:40:30 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline I spotted one dead snake lying upon the top of the boards and out of curosity I turned the boards over...a Blue Tailed Skink ( lizard) was the first thing I saw scurry away...Then: I saw the snakes...in two clusters. Made sure they weren't poisonous, before I picked them up and put them in a bottle. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 8

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 11:18:26 PM    marjorie040 Posts: 371 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline Whiskeyman, I hate it when my stupidity shows but I have to ask.....didn't the snakes try to run when you overturned the board? Why didn't they bite you....? I know  you said they weren't poisoneous but non poisonous snakes bite too, don't they? Thanks, _____________________________ marjorie040 McClellanville, sc (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 9

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/22/2007 11:35:31 PM    capsoda Posts: 7863 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Charlie, Good going man. I try to move snakes out of harms was when I see them. The wife thinks I'm nuts when I pick up rattlers and moccasins but I never been bit except by one really excited coachwhip. Got the tip of one of my fingers in his mouth and that really smarted. Snakes keep the pests down around here. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 10

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/23/2007 1:52:42 AM    L C   Posts: 1556 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: online I took four, four foot black snakes out of my neighbors house for him back early last summer. He had an air vent screen come off the end of the foundation, apparently, old Mamma Snake must have went in and made a nest. Only one room with crawl space underneath, and a finished basement in the rest. The snakes got into the living area of the basement, and must have been living in there since they had hatched. Before we found the screen off the air vent of the house. I assumed the snake got in by some odd way. Took the first one out and tossed it into the weeds in the field. Thought that was the end of it, till the old Gentleman called me again the next day, saying he had one up on a small table by a wall knocking off pictures. Anyway we finally got them all out. I fixed the air vent for him and no further incidents of any more snakes in the house. I found it quite funny they were in there all that time and got that big without ever being spotted. I handled a couple of Rattlers while being stationed in the service out in Texas but as a rule, I try and stay away from the poisonous ones if I can.        I used to catch a lot of  black snakes and garden snakes for fun, and bring them home when I was a youngster, drove my Mother nuts. Turned a three foot black snake loose in tenth grade study hall one afternoon in school. DON'T EVER DO THAT! That was a major mistake, never heard so much screaming and books being thrown all over the place in my life. Not saying that after being ratted out by one of the girls who saw me turn it loose, I was sent to the office and got the whipping of my life. I thought the principal was never going to stop swinging that paddle! < Message edited by L C -- 4/23/2007 2:00:30 AM > (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 11

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/23/2007 6:44:05 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1682 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline Good job, when I'm digging I occasionally come across a baby black rat or a ring neck and many red back salamanders.  I try to move them and even worms out of harms way. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to L C) Post #: 12

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/23/2007 5:15:22 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline MARJORIE..what you asked was not showing any stupidity at all. Recall the cold snap we had a couple weeks ago?  That was when I caught the snakes. They were huddled together for warmth and too sluggish to bite...or get away. After I got them in the house they got pretty active and one tried to bite several times, but I had a proper grip on him. After they got used to me putting in their water, etc...they no longer offered to bite, but did try to get away from my grasp. And yes...all snakes will bite gven the opportunity and enough provocation. Quick movements and loud noises will get them agitated to the point they will bite.  < Message edited by whiskeyman -- 4/23/2007 5:16:43 PM > _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 13

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/23/2007 5:19:54 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline WARREN, COBALT & LC...I see we are all of similar minds when it comes to snakes. I have several funny ( to me) snake stories and one not so funny. Will get them typed up and post later, if I can remember all the details. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 14

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/23/2007 6:28:19 PM    acls   Posts: 305 Joined: 6/2/2005 Status: offline Hey whiskeyman.  Way to go on the snake rescue.  I am one of those guys who thinks that snakes are pretty cool, and meet a lot of people who do not.  It's great to see we have so many people who respect nature on our forum. (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 15

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/23/2007 9:22:47 PM    marjorie040 Posts: 371 Joined: 12/3/2006 Status: offline Thanks Whiskeyman, I appreciate your reply and kindnesses to Mother Natures creatures....I will aspire! _____________________________ marjorie040 McClellanville, sc (in reply to acls) Post #: 16

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/24/2007 5:14:42 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline ACLS...pleased ta meetcha. I encounter Peeps all the time who have killed a Garter snake or a Water snake and sworn up & down it was a Copperhead and strutted around like they were "tuff stuff."    If only theyd take the time to learn. MARJORIE...yer quite welcome..."keep on, keepin' on"... _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to marjorie040) Post #: 17

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/24/2007 5:15:37 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline I was in the 4th grade when this occurred:After school let out one early Spring day, I went up into the Knobs ( forested hills & hollows), just to mingle my Self with Nature....and be alone.As I approached a  flooded washout near a small stream, I saw dozens of  Garter snakes....who quickly entered the  washout and submerged beneathe the floating leaves. I took off my shoes, and went in after them. I managed to catch aboout 12 and only got bit once. Can't recall what I put them in, maybe my Lunch bucket. When I arrived home with the snakes, I placed them in a 5 gallon bucket , put a brick on the lid, and went in the house. About an hour later my Father approached me and told me in no uncertain terms  to get rid of the snakes. It was dark by now, and no way was I going to take them all way back to the woods, so I released them in the backyard. There was a huge plowed field back there and I figgered they'd  be okay. I piddled around outside a while longer, then went in the house. My Father asked me if I got rid of the snakes and I replied yes....they're gone.He inquired , all of them ? All, I said. Next day was a Saturday and that morning I was sitting in my window watching the neighbor hang out clothes. She bent over to reach in her clothes basket for a garment, paused , and then let out an awful screech. Quickly she turned and ran in her house, returning with a broom , with which she began smacking the grassy ground furiously. My Father heard the commotion ( figgers), and went over there to see what the problem was. I saw him look down at the ground, then back up at me sitting in my window. Then he headed for the house. It slowly dawned on me what had happened: one of the Garter snakes had strayed into the neighbor's yard and about gave her a heart attack.. My father soon verified my fears and wasted no time wearing my hind end out more furiously than the neighbor had the snake. ROFL. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 18

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/24/2007 5:21:42 PM    whiskeyman Posts: 2019 Joined: 4/17/2005 From: NE TENN-SW VA Status: offline COBALT...a few years ago I was a volunteer with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. One thing we did was search areas for Salamanders. While at the local park, I discovered  a previously unknown Salamander for this area. Good thing I had my digital camera, else there'd be no "proof." I no longer have the pic, but I did email it to the local Park Naturalist, who made an "official"  record of my find. _____________________________ * Member: Bristol Historical Assoc...and, Friends of Steeles Creek Nature Center & Park President: Bristol Tenn-Va Bottle Club Author of: Spirits & Medicinal Bottles of Bristol,TN-VA. My WebSite: www.bristol-tenn-va-bottles.com (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 19

RE: Snakes On The Forum - 4/25/2007 7:23:19 AM    cobaltbot Posts: 1682 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline It's hard to turn a rock over where I live without finding red backs underneath.  Occasionally I find a marbled or large slimeys.  If you've ever picked up one of those you will remember it.  I try and put a small rock or stick down first before putting the rock back down so nothing gets squished.  I'm always amazed at how many people think a common water snake is a copperhead.  They are kind of nasty as far as snakes go. _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to whiskeyman) Post #: 20

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