Ronn! wrote:
I think that a lot of people don't want to get within a sword's length or a shovel's length of any snake until they are sure it is dead. And of course one problem with poking at a snake with some sort of stick or stick-like object is that they can actually crawl up on the stick and climb right up it toward the person doing the poking . . .
Except, unless it's some sort of psychotic snake it's going to be trying to get away from the thing some 20-50 times its size poking it with a stick.
I suspect the aforementioned behavior would be more common if the snake believed it were backed into a corner with no escape route.
I take it you don't like snakes?
My mother was unable to even look at a picture of a snake, probably as a result of being bitten by a water moccasin when she was quite small.
--Ronn! :)
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