Out from under some rocks she wiggled and across the stones of the new patio, stopping a few times to look around. I wondered if she knew where she was going! She was beautiful and I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. She moved so gracefully as she came closer to me. When she was close enough, I reached out to touch her and she coiled and hissed at me and her head stood up high, with two eyes staring at me, telling me to keep my distance.
I spoke softly, but she couldn’t hear me, but she could sense that there was something to fear. After a few minutes, she turned and was about to go in another direction, when a neighbor came into the back yard through the gate. The neighbor shouted at me and turned to run when he fell over a planter of flowers that sat there on the edge of the new patio. That frightened this beautiful creature even more and she wiggled her way back in to the rocks around the water falls and small pond.
With all the things we placed in the yard and around our small pool, nothing was as beautiful, as this creature of nature’s own making. Now that I knew she was there, I would put food out for her to eat and perhaps she would stay around for the season .
I placed small signs around to warn others that she was here and asked that they not threaten her, and to let her be unharmed. Through the next few months, she had grown and became even more beautiful, and was getting use to my presents. I still couldn’t touch her, but we shared the garden with each other. At times, I would see her curled up on a warm stone and she would look at me and then go back to resting.
None of the other animals of nature came around the back yard, so there was no conflict between the animals. I had to run a cat or two out of the yard and had no more trouble with them. Birds were there from time to time, but mostly kept their distance.
After a time, she disappeared for some time. Then in the fall she appeared once again and there were little ones with her. They were only ten, or maybe twelve inches in length and that made me think that they would all have to find another place to live, real soon.
Now I didn’t know much about snakes and had no idea what kind these were. I went to a library to get a book that could enlighten me. I couldn’t find anything in the book that was like these that had made a home in my back yard.
After I spoke with a wild life specialist and invited him to come a view my back yard friends. Well only one may have been my friend. He told me what they were and said they were not native to our part of the country and the big question was “Yes” they were very poison-ness if you were bit by one. He said you wouldn’t die from a bite, but you would get so sick that you would wish you were dead. He came back the following day with a trap and it took several day to catch them all. All that I had found the next year, was the skin she had shed.
This Wild Life Specialist, told me that the snake was only found on a few Islands in the South Pacific. It would be interesting to learn how it got here. It would be a whole other story.
From now on, my pets will be those that can live in my house, Here’ kitty, kitty’!, “Now don’t bite me!”
By: Ben R.
Aug. 18, 2011
I spoke softly, but she couldn’t hear me, but she could sense that there was something to fear. After a few minutes, she turned and was about to go in another direction, when a neighbor came into the back yard through the gate. The neighbor shouted at me and turned to run when he fell over a planter of flowers that sat there on the edge of the new patio. That frightened this beautiful creature even more and she wiggled her way back in to the rocks around the water falls and small pond.
With all the things we placed in the yard and around our small pool, nothing was as beautiful, as this creature of nature’s own making. Now that I knew she was there, I would put food out for her to eat and perhaps she would stay around for the season .
I placed small signs around to warn others that she was here and asked that they not threaten her, and to let her be unharmed. Through the next few months, she had grown and became even more beautiful, and was getting use to my presents. I still couldn’t touch her, but we shared the garden with each other. At times, I would see her curled up on a warm stone and she would look at me and then go back to resting.
None of the other animals of nature came around the back yard, so there was no conflict between the animals. I had to run a cat or two out of the yard and had no more trouble with them. Birds were there from time to time, but mostly kept their distance.
After a time, she disappeared for some time. Then in the fall she appeared once again and there were little ones with her. They were only ten, or maybe twelve inches in length and that made me think that they would all have to find another place to live, real soon.
Now I didn’t know much about snakes and had no idea what kind these were. I went to a library to get a book that could enlighten me. I couldn’t find anything in the book that was like these that had made a home in my back yard.
After I spoke with a wild life specialist and invited him to come a view my back yard friends. Well only one may have been my friend. He told me what they were and said they were not native to our part of the country and the big question was “Yes” they were very poison-ness if you were bit by one. He said you wouldn’t die from a bite, but you would get so sick that you would wish you were dead. He came back the following day with a trap and it took several day to catch them all. All that I had found the next year, was the skin she had shed.
This Wild Life Specialist, told me that the snake was only found on a few Islands in the South Pacific. It would be interesting to learn how it got here. It would be a whole other story.
From now on, my pets will be those that can live in my house, Here’ kitty, kitty’!, “Now don’t bite me!”
By: Ben R.
Aug. 18, 2011
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