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lions and tiger and bears...OH MY!! I saw the thread about the gator in the backyard and I just had to post. Not only does our "hunter friend" tell us we have bear tracks in the woods by our house but we have rattlesnakes(found a baby one on our weight room downstairs a couple of years ago) a copper head in our library on the second floor 2 yrs ago(due to us not checking some encyclopedia boxes that we carried up there from our garage), vultures, hawks, a couple of wild dogs and what do I see yesterday? A dag on fox walking around our front lawn sniffing around:eek:. I swear it looked part Dingo. It was the biggest fox I have ever seen. I have to look up, down and all around when I let my girls out..could give a girl whiplash! :confused: |
Oh my goodness!! :eek: We have lots of hawks and ospreys around we have to look out for. My MIL acutally had a close call with her little 5lb shorkie...an osprey swooped down and BARELY missed her!! She was in tears, and was only 5ft away from Bridget, in her own front yard. The snakes would be my worst fear. I have two sons...5 and 4...and my youngest is fearless when it comes to them. :( Keep those babies close!! :) I have family in Va...it's beautiful there! |
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yikes! I'd hired tree company to cut down a large tree overhanging my house last fall & the guys up in the tree saw a coyote at the back of my property, pointed it out to me and immediately asked if I had a dog. I didn't at the time and it still scared the heck outta me. |
Wow. My 4yo GD went to ride her bike to the pond and turned to me and said "If that coyote(she meant fox) comes at me MaMaw you better save me!" I got to giggling because her head was in whiplash mode too..back and forth. |
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WEST Va...oops! I'm terrible. :rolleyes: I do have a cousin in Va beach...he is in the navy, stationed there. Also gorgeous. :) |
ha ha... I love your post... at least I don't feel so bad about my gator anymore:D I just replied to a post in mine that the snakes in Florida are the same as Virginia... lol I grew up part of my childhood in West Virginia... Bristol... beautiful area. My mom used to tell stories about "hoop" snakes (don't really know..so don't ask) cougars --I think she called them panthers... and of course moonshinners.. I don't think the moonshinners are dangerious to yorkies :D |
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Oh... I thought they were true.. well maybe not:confused: Isn't it great that we all are the same ... but different??? |
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Folklore about hoop snakes is well-known to herpetologists but universally dismissed. I quote from Snakes of Virginia (Linzey and Clifford, 1981): "The 'hoop snake' tale is usually applied to the mud snake [Farancia abacura] and to the rainbow snake [Farancia erytrogramma]. Supposedly, the snake takes its tail into its mouth, forms a hoop, and rolls after the nearest human. It then tries to `sting' the person with its tail. Should the snake jab a tree instead, the poor plant immediately wilts and dies. that part cracked me up) The whole story is, of course, nonsense." To be fair, there's a germ of truth to the legend. While a hoop/mud snake cannot sting with its tail, it does have a hard spine back there that can draw blood when thrashed vigorously. What's more, the snake tends to form itself into a flat, hooplike circle when relaxed. If you were an impressionable six-year-old prowling through the swamps and you came across such an apparition, you might easily imagine it was about to hoist itself to the vertical and roll after you. The only problem is, the former six-year-old who became your girlfriend's mother still believes it. — Cecil Adams |
Oh my! So many scary critters. :eek: Here in Kansas we have tornados. Those are scary critters, arn't they? Oh, and a Chupacabra was recently spotted. But, no poisones snakes (in my area), much less giant ones, or hoop snakes, alligators, bears or cougars. Very scary!! |
I saw something about them on TV once. Ugly things ain't they? As for tonados I have only seen two in my life here in Hampton Roads VA that have done a signifcant amt. of damage. Two or three yrs ago was the last time. We worry alot about Hurricanes. BTW...my first yorkie was named CHA CHA. |
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