Saturday, March 20, 2010

Spring has sprung

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Israel's scorpions and snakes have woken up again, right on time for the official beginning of spring.
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I came home yesterday to find this young snake on my patio, next to my door step.
Yikes!
Where are the cats when you need them?!

Making do with what I had, I dropped a cement block and a balata on the snake.
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I am sorry if this saddens some of the Camera-Critter friends. But I live in a rural setting, in a little house almost right on the ground. And there is just not enough room for me and a venomous snake.
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Happy spring.
P.S. Check out my post about the hunter cat with a live snake in her mouth. It's more fun than this post.

26 comments:

  1. It's a beautiful snake but I understand what you've done, especially being a venomous animal...

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  2. Holy cow! I wouldn't want a venomous snake within yards of my house, let alone on my porch! And scorpions too? I think I'd be rather on edge if I lived there.

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  3. Dina: There is a definite problem when the snakes try to take over an area.

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  4. I would have freaked out lol, I have a phobia with snakes..

    My Camera Critters post, have a nice Saturday morning.

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  5. You are forgiven because it is a venomous snake.

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  6. I have real snake hunters living here. My cats are pros will send them sandy

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  7. Iik! I wish the winter lasted longer....

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  8. It's a venomous snake?
    Oh, please be careful...

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  9. I believe holy crap is the first thing that popped into my mind. Yikes! (SO SO SO glad I live on a high floor, I would never have been cool-headed enough to kill it.)

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  10. I can't blame you at all, I would have done the same thing! Where were the cats?

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  11. Shalom everyone. I'm really enjoying your reactions. :D
    To answer a few questions:
    >I can't really complain. It's the first snake I've seen around the house in my 3 1/2 years here.
    >As for scorpions, just don't put your fingers under a rock. Flip it with your foot first.
    Snakes should move away if they feel you coming. In outback Australia they taught me to hike with a big walking stick, thumping the ground with it every two steps.
    >Yes, a smart cat will kill and eat a snake.
    >Don't know where the neighborhood cats were yesterday.
    >I wasn't really that brave since the snake seemed half asleep.
    Anyway, I had lots of practice getting rid of snakes as a livestock volunteer at Heifer Ranch, Arkansas.

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  12. Oh, I can understand that you want to get rid of that animal. I hate snakes. That's what I don't like in tropical areas like Indonesia where I had lived for 12 years before coming to the Netherlands.Have a great day!

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  13. Yikes! I would have been a bit on edge too! But, ouch! for the snake...the nervousness would probably have caused me to drop the dang block on my own foot! Great aim, Dina!

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  14. Yikes, is an understatement, I would not want to share my house with a venomous or a non-venomous snake, I love nature but I don't like snakes much.

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  15. Eeek. Venomous! I hate snakes. Think I would have panicked and run to the neighbours.

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  16. I would do the same too, especailly since I grew up in Borneo.

    Lucky for me, there is no snakes in New Zealand.

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  17. Careful there! I had a very bad experience with one of these critters near Eilat, had to be airlifted to the Hadassah Hospital, where I spent 3 weeks, and made many friends!

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  18. One does definitely not want a venomous snake for a neighbor.

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  19. We love snakes, but not the poisonous kinds. I would have made my husband kill it, too.

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  20. I SO agree. Almost as scary as scorpians in Darjat.

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  21. Poor snake, not quite awake and already with a tremendous headache!

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  22. I have to say, it is a different look at spring while lots of us are obsessing over a clear sky view or a bud about to burst.

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  23. Yikes! I hate snakes! Or is it an asp?

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