I forgot about the snake

I've never seen a snake in the wild, and I'm quite glad of that.

I am scared by snakes, it's a sort of phobia. I do not hurt them but I cannot stand the view of them. The one you describes seems to be a ribbon snakes, they are not dangerous.

Not had that kind of experience with snakes, and hopefully will not. But there was time when children were scared and were trying to ward off a street dog and suddenly, the dog stood up and put its paws on my shoulder. I was able to understand its plight, and shoo the children away. It was shocking, and scary but nothing happened.

So true! One time i was walking my dog. The snake was sunbathing in the middle of the path. I do not have the greatest of eyes, but it just looked like a dry snake skin. I lean into to take a closer look and of course at the time my 100 pound German Shepherd wants to see what I was looking at. He takes a closer look also and that is when the snake jumped up and scared us both. It was just one of those snakes that eat field mice, but always gets you when something is alive and you think otherwise.

I saw a baby snake in our door 2weeks ago. I threw it outside the house.

I am not scared of them, I am respectful, if I don't know what it is, I am dancing away and not touching it!

I can fully appreciate how startled you would be. As you say, it is not so much fear as the moment of surprise that causes the reaction. Stop scaring those poor little snakes.

Haven't recently. I would be startled too.

Even if a twig looks like a snake I will not go near it. Such is my fright and therefore you can imagine what I went through one early morning when I was opening the kitchen door there were two snakes mating. I banged the door shut and alerted the snake catcher who to our good luck was in town. The snakes had got inside our garden cupboard which was a bit ajar. The snake catcher arrived and caught them. He was to leave them in the jungle. It cost us quite a penny to engage the snake catcher

The onlytime I had probably caught up a snake was when I was a kid maybe in class four. There was this snake charmer who was displaying his tricks, and was telling again and again - I found this so very dangerous snake and caught it. I dont know what happened, but I stretched out my hand and held that snake in my fist. It gave me a bite to and seeing this the snake charmer put one of his magical anti-venom tablets (that was in black color) where the snake had bit. Over the years, the wound has healed, but sometimes that feeling of holding a snake sends down shivers to me. Trust me, it was so odd a feeling... and decades after it keeps coming back. YUCK!

I had a couple of times in front of my door. That's really scary especially at night, so I need to open the lights at all times. I am living in the mountainside of my country. It is not avoidable.

We have blue tongue lizard that lives under a rock in the front garden that gets scared when I happen to work around it's little home ..

Omg I would be so scared as I am scared of snakes as we don't get them here in the UK!! I am scared of spiders and little insects!!

You would've heard me, is all I can say! I would've screamed my head off. I try to avoid wild creatures.

I am petrified of snakes.

Oh yeah, several times @GardenGerty and they were snakes; which I hate. The last ordeal was when I was lifting a 70-pound bale of hay off the pile and standing vertical with it's mouth open was a Copperhead. I almost crapped my pants.

Snakes give me the creeps, I would have screamed like a little girl lol.