Comments on: Menagerie: Rogue Snake Department http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/2009/11/22/menagerie-rogue-snake-department/ Trying to measure a moment. Wed, 16 May 2012 15:01:58 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Dennis http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/2009/11/22/menagerie-rogue-snake-department/comment-page-1/#comment-1808 Dennis Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:29:49 +0000 http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/?p=1180#comment-1808 Yes it was a surprise and I can assure you NOT IN MY HANDS. As recall a shovel and broom were used and the little suckers were dumped in a container with a lid (a very secure lid) for the 10 minute drive to the point. Yes it was a surprise and I can assure you NOT IN MY HANDS. As recall a shovel and broom were used and the little suckers were dumped in a container with a lid (a very secure lid) for the 10 minute drive to the point.

]]> By: junior http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/2009/11/22/menagerie-rogue-snake-department/comment-page-1/#comment-1803 junior Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:25:53 +0000 http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/?p=1180#comment-1803 "...GATHERED THEM UP..."??? Like, in your hands? You must have been much more certain that science wouldn't lie to you than I was! I knew at the time that rattlesnakes aren't indigenous to the area (in the back of my mind, I [wrongly] suspected that my assailant was a fox snake, actually), and I even had a vague recollection that in Ontario, rattlesnake bites are only very rarely fatal, but I can't think of a single thing you could have said to me that would have convinced me to pick that little sucker up off the ground. It does come as quite a surprise to find you have these sorts of neighbours, doesn't it? “…GATHERED THEM UP…”???

Like, in your hands? You must have been much more certain that science wouldn’t lie to you than I was! I knew at the time that rattlesnakes aren’t indigenous to the area (in the back of my mind, I [wrongly] suspected that my assailant was a fox snake, actually), and I even had a vague recollection that in Ontario, rattlesnake bites are only very rarely fatal, but I can’t think of a single thing you could have said to me that would have convinced me to pick that little sucker up off the ground.

It does come as quite a surprise to find you have these sorts of neighbours, doesn’t it?

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]]> By: Dennis http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/2009/11/22/menagerie-rogue-snake-department/comment-page-1/#comment-1801 Dennis Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:24:54 +0000 http://heroesinrehab.ca/blog/?p=1180#comment-1801 Brought back memories from many years ago when visiting my parents who had moved to a house overlooking the lake in Leamington. My dad and I were strolling around the house when we heard a rattling under some bushes. On examination there were 9 or 10 baby snakes. We gathered them up and took them to the science centre at Point Pelee where the experts advised they were Fox Snakes. We released them at the point to go after whatever they go after but I recall how nervous we were gathering them up and can understand how you felt. Brought back memories from many years ago when visiting my parents who had moved to a house overlooking the lake in Leamington. My dad and I were strolling around the house when we heard a rattling under some bushes. On examination there were 9 or 10 baby snakes. We gathered them up and took them to the science centre at Point Pelee where the experts advised they were Fox Snakes. We released them at the point to go after whatever they go after but I recall how nervous we were gathering them up and can understand how you felt.

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