Snakes in houseplants

daBunnyWendy7 · Post by **daBunnyWendy7** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:29 pm

OH GOOD gravy ! YIKES

I am so glad your friend HER family were not hurt.Good heavens.Guess this just goes to show you'v got to be careful what you bring in.SHE or her son couldve recieved very dangerous bite just innocently OPENing the container.WOWCopperheads ARE VERY poisonous.Not saying snakes should be killed whenever you see one BUT by NATURE they will lie there seemingly tranquil BUT definitelt will bite.hey sense heat and CAN strike unprovoked.

This reminds me of when we moved to Key West FL (I was sm 4 i recall. Snkes kept getting IN the hose.

When I moved here from TX Taylor N of Austin,we had a LARGE one come in unannounced.I absolutely LOVE animals but horrified of snakes.Since I was the only adult I HAD to pick it up (my children were there & I was single used the mophandle) and deposit outside.whew

Wendybunny

daBunnyWendy7 · Post by **daBunnyWendy7** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:38 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I'm one of those oblivious walkers.... I've nearly stepped on rattlers twice but was fortunately pulled back by my companion. I nearly peed on a snake (by going behind a rock out in the sticks), but I'm not sure if it was poisonous or not.

eeew ROFLMBBO

egads please B careful.crimeny

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:43 pm

*yikes*

What a nature walk, snooze..............................

ARgi · Post by **ARgi** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:44 pm

they are kind of cute actually. are they venomous?

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:53 pm

" I nearly peed on a snake (by going behind a rock out in the sticks), but I'm not sure if it was poisonous or not. "

++++++++++++++++ Oh, Snooze! I was in Tanzania, out in the middle of nowhere, not a tree or bush in sight, and had to pee. Two of us got out behind the jeep, dropped our drawers and brought a little water to the land, so to speak.

When we got back into the jeep, the driver said, "Didn't want to worry you...but that's a puff adder!" Sure enough...a very venomous puff adder was making its way across the dirt road...probably seven feet from us.

I wouldn't be a good zoo person if I didn't remind everyone that poison is something you swallow, with bad results, while venom is something injected into you, with bad results....so, there are poisonous frogs and venomous snakes. I'll step off the box now.....:wah:

ARgi · Post by **ARgi** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:53 pm

baby snakes are more dangerous than adults if you're not lucky. they do not know how much venom to release and will sometimes pump you full of it, more than an adult would.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:55 pm

Are these the snakes from the plane? Enquiring minds want to know.

cars · Post by **cars** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:11 pm

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I HATE SNAKES!:-5

After reading this post, I'm scratching & feeling itchey! :guitarist

daBunnyWendy7 · Post by **daBunnyWendy7** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:34 pm

Lulu2 wrote: " I nearly peed on a snake (by going behind a rock out in the sticks), but I'm not sure if it was poisonous or not. "

++++++++++++++++ Oh, Snooze! I was in Tanzania, out in the middle of nowhere, not a tree or bush in sight, and had to pee. Two of us got out behind the jeep, dropped our drawers and brought a little water to the land, so to speak.

When we got back into the jeep, the driver said, "Didn't want to worry you...but that's a puff adder!" Sure enough...a very venomous puff adder was making its way across the dirt road...probably seven feet from us.

I wouldn't be a good zoo person if I didn't remind everyone that poison is something you swallow, with bad results, while venom is something injected into you, with bad results....so, there are poisonous frogs and venomous snakes. I'll step off the box now.....:wah:
SEEMS like you'd like to know...poison IS a liquid that is toxic.I AGREE.However he etymology of venom is venim AngloFrench from latin venimen~Latin venenum poison,magic charm or drug, poison; asoc w Latin venus.

Words are interesting.

Wendybunnybtw this F is blackadder snicker layercakes

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:18 pm

ok, snooze; you have totally freaked me out. i have a house plant i just bought from the grocery store. Kroger to be exact.sitting on my kitchen counter. i am thinking about getting the gun and killing it. plant, pot and anything that might be inside..........that sucker will be outside in just a sec. untill i have time to take it apart and examine every inch of it for critters.

EEEEEEEEAAAAAAAKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!! all snakes are deadly to me. one of us is going to die if we meet up. so far, it aint me.!!!!!!!!!!!!

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:21 pm

daBunnyWendy7 wrote: eeew ROFLMBBO

egads please B careful.crimeny

daBunny , what does ROFLMBBO mean????????????????? i get roll on floor laughing my something something off.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:22 pm

PEOPLE! Snakes are good guys! They don't want to harm us...they only want to be left alone.

Did you know that, given a choice, a venomous snake will strike you with a "dry" bite? It takes a lot of energy to make venom and they'd rather save it for the purpose it's intended.....killing prey.

Snooze..snakes don't have "poison" which would harm us. Now..arrow frogs do, but they're truly poisonous. Just don't swallow one.

I want all of you all to come to the zoo and let me talk to you about snakes...they're fascinating, really!

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:41 pm

Sorry...I didn't explain that well. NO, it wouldn't be! Now, I wouldn't French kiss a spitting cobra, for example, but you're not likely to ever swallow secretions from venom glands.....are you?

Rain · Post by **Rain** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:33 pm

Venom... Poison... it's all the same to me. They can kill ya.

My daughter lives in NC and a baby cottonmouth almost bit her MIL. It came jetting out between the steps of the house and went right for her leg. I've heard cottonmouths are VERY aggressive. That they don't need to be provoked.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:07 pm

lulu, you can talk to me about snakes right where u are and i will stay where i am. close as i want to get to any ole snake.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:50 pm

Oh hell no Lulu2 I hate snakes, I will stay out of their way, and they can say out of mine and I will be happy.

I know snake have a purpose on this Planet but I prefer to put my blinders on and pretend they aren't around..:wah:

[QUOTE]I want all of you all to come to the zoo and let me talk to you about snakes...they're fascinating, really![/QUOTE]

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:20 am

Lulu2 wrote: SI wouldn't French kiss a spitting cobra

WOW Lulu !!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUFFAW. What an image!!! You rock !!

Portia · Post by **Portia** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:47 am

there have been two (that i know of) well-documented and verifiable incidents of people being bitten by poisonous snakes in the garden center of a popular huge dept. store. it's not an urban myth. ...i have had a coral snake in my house that i nearly stepped on in bare feet, and a HUGE rattler sunning himself on my front steps. i know it's not nice, but i killed them both, i felt they threatened the safety of my child and myself. normally i would not kill an animal, but that was too close for comfort.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:17 am

I have an early memory, Portia, of my grandma standing on her wooden back steps despatching a big brown snake with a spade!! One very feisty lady. It's not snake season here yet, quite.. grin..

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:46 am

SnoozeControl wrote: (I got this in an email today) *shudder!*

I almost had a heart attack this week. My son got me a potted plant for my birthday. I kept it on my kitchen counter the whole time. This week it was warm enough to plant outside. It was in a plastic pot wedged into a decorative outer container. After planting the flower, I got a knife to get the plastic pot out of the glass one. When I wedged the knife around the sides, something moved. I told my son it looked like a snake, so he took the liner out. To our surprise, there was not one snake, but two baby copperheads. I almost died! When we took the plastic pot out, there was a piece of cardboard up the side. There must have been eggs in the holes of the cardboard that hatched out when it got hot. I am sending you pictures.

Take my advice and don't bring nursery plants inside. This could have been really, really bad. The plant was bought at a grocery store; I won't give the name because I don't want to ruin their business, plus I'm pretty sure it was the grower & not the store who was responsible. Growers should take more care when potting plants.

I just want to warn you guys not to bring plants inside; who knows what could be leaking way down under those roots. I am only thankful it was not intended as a house plant!

(continued in next post)

PETS

:rolleyes:

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:12 am

Did you newer people know that three of our members, Baby Rider, Pants and TGirl all have snakes as pets?

Pretty interesting!

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:39 am

(SIGH!) Snakes are fascinating, benign and many people have them as pets. In many ways, they're lots less trouble than dogs, cats and birds!

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:34 am

Just call me the new Mythbuster. According to Snopes, ths one is considered "undetermined." The facts cannot be verified. Here is a link.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:39 am

THIS one is NOT a myth....

Roughly speaking, only about 5% of the snake species found in the U.S. are venomous, so the average encounter with a snake is unlikely to result in any harm to humans.

(And I haven't even begun to talk about BATS! Muuuuahahahahahaha)

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:42 am

Lulu2 wrote: THIS one is NOT a myth....

Roughly speaking, only about 5% of the snake species found in the U.S. are venomous, so the average encounter with a snake is unlikely to result in any harm to humans.

(And I haven't even begun to talk about BATS! Muuuuahahahahahaha)

You are right, there. I was just noting that the specific incident mentioned in Snooze's original post has been classified as undetermined...THAT incident has not been verified. The link I posted shows the exact photos.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:44 am

Oh..I understood, Marie. Actually, I looked at snopes yesterday when I first saw this, thinking it was odd. YOU, clever girl, must've put in the right series of words!

Still...it's possible.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:48 am

Lulu2 wrote: Oh..I understood, Marie. Actually, I looked at snopes yesterday when I first saw this, thinking it was odd. YOU, clever girl, must've put in the right series of words!

Still...it's possible.

Yeah, I just did a search for snakes. The pics seemed vaguely familiar...so I thought I would look.

Gotta be carefull about them. That is for sure.

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:53 am

Lulu2 wrote:

(And I haven't even begun to talk about BATS! Muuuuahahahahahaha)

UGH! Bats! GROSS! Rabies! Nasty! Yucky! Pleh, pleh, pleh!

*CC running away*

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:32 am

Lulu2 wrote: (SIGH!) Snakes are fascinating, benign and many people have them as pets. In many ways, they're lots less trouble than dogs, cats and birds!

Aint that the truth

:rolleyes: Reptiles rule .

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:12 am

CC:" UGH! Bats! GROSS! Rabies! Nasty! Yucky! Pleh, pleh, pleh! "

Cheshire, my dear.....I can see we have a LOT to talk about! Bats are amazing animals who do great things for humanity. Did you know that a colony of bats can consume TONS of insects in a season?

Bat moms have learned how to give birth UPSIDE DOWN and their babies have to crawl, clinging to her fur, DOWN to the nipple. The evolution of radar is a MIND-BOGGLING feat and, since I'm eating breakfast, I'll wait until later to discuss the benefits of BAT GUANO.

LOVE A BAT!

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:17 am

Lulu2 wrote: CC:" UGH! Bats! GROSS! Rabies! Nasty! Yucky! Pleh, pleh, pleh! "

Cheshire, my dear.....I can see we have a LOT to talk about! Bats are amazing animals who do great things for humanity. Did you know that a colony of bats can consume TONS of insects in a season?

Bat moms have learned how to give birth UPSIDE DOWN and their babies have to crawl, clinging to her fur, DOWN to the nipple. The evolution of radar is a MIND-BOGGLING feat and, since I'm eating breakfast, I'll wait until later to discuss the benefits of BAT GUANO.

LOVE A BAT!

Sorry Lulu!

i am always willing to learn, especially about animals.

Bats just creep me out! Some people it's spiders ar snakes. For me it's BATS!

When I lived in Cedar Rapids there were bats all over the place. I had a coworker who thought he MIGHT have been bitten by a bat. The health department made him go through the whole prosess of rabies shots. I mean they were all over the place.

Give me the heebee jievies!

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:52 am

Bats eat INSECTS...they don't fly into our hair or attack us deliberately. If he thought he'd been bitten, he must've either handled a bat or one accidentally flew into him. Bats can contact rabies....but so can most any mammal. They're not CARRIERS, per se. Fewer than 1/2 of 1% of bats get rabies. In the last 30 years, only NINE cases of human rabies are attributed to bats.

They're the only mammals capable of true flight (gotta' admire that.) Do you like cashew nuts? Thank fruit bats...they pollinate the crops in India/Nepal and disperse seeds of many fruits/nuts.

In the rain forests of this hemisphere, ONE FOURTH of all animals are bats and they're absolutely critical to the ecosystems there. Because they're dispersing seeds, guano and pollen, it's estimated that 95% of forest regrowth in Africa is due to BATS!

(Stepping off the box....:wah: )

CheshireCat · Post by **CheshireCat** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:55 am

Lulu2 wrote: Bats eat INSECTS...they don't fly into our hair or attack us deliberately. If he thought he'd been bitten, he must've either handled a bat or one accidentally flew into him. Bats can contact rabies....but so can most any mammal. They're not CARRIERS, per se. Fewer than 1/2 of 1% of bats get rabies. In the last 30 years, only NINE cases of human rabies are attributed to bats.

They're the only mammals capable of true flight (gotta' admire that.) Do you like cashew nuts? Thank fruit bats...they pollinate the crops in India/Nepal and disperse seeds of many fruits/nuts.

In the rain forests of this hemisphere, ONE FOURTH of all animals are bats and they're absolutely critical to the ecosystems there. Because they're dispersing seeds, guano and pollen, it's estimated that 95% of forest regrowth in Africa is due to BATS!

(Stepping off the box....:wah: )

I got cha Lulu!

The bat flew into him. Scared him to death, screamed like a little girl.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:57 am

((((HUGS)))) I'm not trying to preach.....but, I KNOW you'd "get it" if I could only show you a lil' batsy face.....awwwwwww.....lil' babies crawling to mom's nipple. If they fall off...she can't pick them up & they die! Awwwww.....:wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:51 am

All about Bats. A website.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:53 am

Ah, Marie......bats NICE! :wah: (Running, ducking, :driving: )

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:55 am

Had one get in my house once. Scared the SHOOT out of me.