My Kids first encounter with a Snake!  

Yep, I've held and petted a couple. Nice creatures. I just don't get why people don't like them. They are so cute and better yet, they are quiet.

I have held many snakes in my lifetime, in fact when I was a teenager in Texas I used to catch and sell rattlesnakes. I now know that it was wrong to do this but I was young and dumb at the time. I have held a reticulated python that was abut 15 foot long one time and that was rather scary because it was hissing at my ear so I just stayed very still and finally it crawled away from my head where I was able to get hold of it's head for safety. That is the only snake that has had me any bit scared to hold, even the rattlesnakes were not scary. Yes snakes are beautiful animals and they do a great job of ridding our Earth of pest that would otherwise eat out foods and poison us if left unchecked.

Wow!..When we went to the zoo you would run up to the snakes and pet them and want to hold them...No wonder the boys like them...Watch out for Hemi though, she would be a snack for him...

Snakes are interesting creatures and fun to have as pets, but I already have enough snakes in my yard and wouldn't want one in my house too. Most of the snakes around my house are harmless garder snakes. Once in a while though I have come across some of the poisonous ones basking on my driveway. There is a pond and marsh area right outside my backyard and all sorts of critters come from there. So far I have seen eastern coral snakes, cottonmouth snakes, copperheads, and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes. Not to mention the alligators that are floating around a few yards from my house.

I held a big yellow one once when I was a teenager...I believe it was a yellow python. I was terrified and was shaking so bad I thought I'd die.

The guy that owned it had several large snakes and lived down the road from where I was staying.

**AT PEACE WITHIN**

~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

when I was a child living in panama canal zone, we had friends with a pet boa - we enjoyed "playing " with it, mother made sure we never touched one in the wild though... lest it constrict us to death.

yes I have seen and touched a snake(many years ago when I was in grade school) and I'm still terrified of them, I don't deal well with snakes and don't like even being in the same room with them.

If I see a snake now, I tend to have nightmares...

its ok if they are behind glass, but nope I'm not fond of snakes at all.

don't blame your husband.

Mooch

no, I never tried and I do not want to encountered Snake in my whole life I get so afraid of it eventhough they were telling it won;t bite because they tooked already the poison but I still won't dare to touched it......