Im awake!
Ok, first, I've been taught how to pick them up...Second, my adrenaline is sky high when rescuing....it is very exciting!
Fear is a good thing. It's there for a reason. Irrational fear is different....but, that being said, again I was taught...and did so from about 5 or 6 years old, so again it is what you learn. I've never had a snake chase me, unless I deserved it, a snake will usually turn and run in the opposite direction. Well in Australia they're not very aggressive so, the fear factor isn't as high, because they feel you coming long before you know they're there, and usually move off.
Dennise...Im not happy with shooting snakes...killing snakes...again this is learned. I will not say you are a bad person or it is wrong, this is for me plainly inappropriate. But I do understand.
Id rather take the risk and relocate one, than have someone kill one. The balance is too heavily weighed in the snakes favour for me...and Im just too fast for em
. Significant part of the macro environment. Significant maintainer of balance of rodent, reptile and amphibian populations. Significant food source for higher order preditors like Raptors - eagles and hawks.
...a dead one is a dead waste...the life should be used to its potential, whether that be feeding another, or breeding another.
When man kills senselessly with a car on our roads, or out of fear, that life is wasted...and for me that is significant....
Id rather take my time to educated the fear outta myself than take a life, because of that fear...
I'll tell you my one fear. Bears are about the only animal on the planet I dunno that I could take down...their too quick...too strong...and their reach is just too long....I've been around them in the wild and they're placid and doing their thing and that's fine, but outta all the animals, it's the one I'd reakon would be the hardest to defend against.
Oh any snake handler that say's "I've been bitten 27 times....." and say it like a badge of honour...stay away from em.
If you get bit once, you should give up.
Ok, well that was a rant...hugs