Posted by Fixerupper on April 05, 2012 at 17:49:58 from (199.120.105.202):
In Reply to: Fear of snakes posted by JDB on April 05, 2012 at 15:08:58:
Well I have to admit a snake startles me a bit when I first see it but it doesn't bother me to pick one up. Couple of years ago I was staring eye-to-eye with a garter snake when I sent down the basement steps. That did get the heart a racing for awhile. Here in NWIA we don't have poisonus snakes so I'm not on high alert when I'm around rocks or normal snake hiding places.
When I was on the harvest out west I heard two ranchers say that when they run into a rattlesnake while fixing fence they are jumpy for the rest of the day. One was by Sterling Co. and the other was by Blackfoot ID. I asked one of them if a cow ever got bit and he said it wasn't very often. The cows respect the rattling. He said the only time he's seen a cow bitten is if the cow steps on a snake and just stands there or if one gets the cow on the nose. The cow's foot will swell up for awhile but there won't be any lasting harm. If it's the nose, it will swell way up and the nostrils will swell shut. He said the cow makes a terrible noise trying to breathe through her nose. In Colorado we'd raise the headers off the ground in the morning before we serviced the combines to be sure a rattlesnake hadn't crawled under there and we were just a little cautious when we walked around the machine when we were greasing. Never saw one though. Jim
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