Swimming with snakes
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
United States
July 24, 2016 7:53am CST
No, that's not the name of a move or a new video game, it's what happened to me a few years ago....
It was our first summer in this house. It was evening, a beautiful evening. After dinner Ruby and I went out to the pool. I got in and was enjoying the water but Ruby was not interested in swimming. Instead she seemed interested in something that was in the water. She began barking and carrying on, very unlike her.
I was about mid-way in the 40 foot length and it was over my head. I looked toward where Ruby was barking and saw a head in the water. I 'assumed' it was a lizard but it wasn't - it was a snake. Not a big snake by any stretch, but a snake none-the-less and it was swimming right at me.
I know I can't walk on water but I think I might have done just that. I got out of that pool as fast as I could screaming for my husband to capture the creature!
He got the net, got the snake and all was well. It was just a small black snake, but I have a rule about snakes in my pool! LOL!
Whenever I go in the pool, since that day, I scan the surface for intruders! So far no other snake has had the nerve to swim in our pool. I am glad Ruby was my protector that day!
This story came back to me after the Horsehair worm story from the other day.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
It was a once in a lifetime thing (I hope)
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@JudyEv (325793)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill You will always be able to say you've swum with snakes. We say we've walked the Bibbulman (1000 kms) but we really only did a few hundred metres of it. :) Haha. Sometimes it's what you don't say that's important.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
25 Jul 16
@JudyEv Very true, leaving out all the details isn't quite fibbing is it?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
He had quite enough of a swim. We hadn't been in it for hours so we don't know how long he was drinking chlorine water!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
24 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill You should have been able to estimate how long by how bleached he was.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
@Asylum All I saw was his head above water.
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@annierose (18934)
• Philippines
25 Jul 16
Glad that I do not know how to swim. I will not encounter that experience. 
Anyway, it is really scary and if that happened to me, perhaps I will run as fast as I can..Perhaps like a wind to be able to avoid the snake.
Anyway, it is really scary and if that happened to me, perhaps I will run as fast as I can..Perhaps like a wind to be able to avoid the snake.1 person likes this
@annierose (18934)
• Philippines
25 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill I thought that snakes only swim in the sea/ocean. I wonder how did the snake was able to go to your swimming pool.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
25 Jul 16
If It has been on the ground I would have run like the wind too!
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It's a good thing you noticed your dog barking on something . She's your savior . 
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
25 Jul 16
Yes, she is my savior! I've never been a night swimmer, but we do have lights out by the pool so I would make sure to turn them on.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
25 Jul 16
When Ruby did not get into "her " pool I think
it was a sure sign that something was wrong.
Glad everything turned out alright.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
31 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill And now of course you will always be cautious,thanks to Ruby.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
25 Jul 16
Yes, that should have warned me right away!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
In this state it's actually illegal to kill a snake.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
25 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill Oh I see. I don't like snakes and I am really scared of them. So I kill them whenever we saw them inside the house.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
If you had done that the snake sure would have gotten you!
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
25 Jul 16
If someone had done a video they would have seen me swimming like Michael Phillips for sure.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
24 Jul 16
I can just see you walking on water ... to get out of the way..... I'm sure i'd have broken some olympic swimming records to get out too....
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@xFiacre (12597)
• Ireland
24 Jul 16
@abbygreenhill I also check the toilet for snakes before I sit on it and under the bed before I swing my feet out of it even though we have no snakes in Ireland.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
If you have no snakes then why worry? I don't worry about them in the house at all.
@jillybean1222 (6408)
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26 Jul 16
when you first say that title, it makes me think of a horrific scene in a book where a man is passing through a river and is bit by a whole nest of water moccasins. it was horrific.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
He could have at least cleaned the pool if he wanted to use it.
@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
24 Jul 16
Swimming with snakes would not be high on my list of good things to do. I am glad it was not a poisonous variety.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
If it has been poisonous you would have heard me screaming on the west coast.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jul 16
When you said swimming with snakes, I thought you caught in a crowd of politicians.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
24 Jul 16
We do learn as we go through life don't we? If you hadn't had that experience you probably wouldn't check the pool before you got in.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
You got that right. We learn from experiences that's for sure.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
25 Jul 16
@celticeagle I wouldn't let anything like that stop me from using my pool!
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
24 Jul 16
I am glad no other snakes are in the pool! Can snakes even swim? I would be terrified. 40 foot length or 4 foot!? 
@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
25 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill That's a big pool! Do you have pool parties too?
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
He sure was doing a good job of faking it if he can't swim.....40 foot long pool.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
25 Jul 16
Oh yuck, and when I think about how many times we go out to the pool in the dark, I shudder.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
26 Jul 16
Turn on a light LOL! We don't go in at night...by then I'm asleep in front of the TV!
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@LeaPea2417 (36442)
• Toccoa, Georgia
24 Jul 16
Wow, that is so scary! If that had happened to me, I think I would have had a heart attack! I am deathly afraid of snakes!
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
26 Jul 16
It seems screening for intruders is something we should all do before entering the pool. . . especially if we are at your house!
@amadeo (111948)
• United States
24 Jul 16
I do not mind too much of seeing snakes.I may get startle .
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
24 Jul 16
It was a shock since I had never had that happen before in my life.
