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I saved a random snake a few days ago
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OG JapplengA few days ago I saved a snake after it had gotten caught in a
garden net. It was stuck there for over a day and I thought
it had died but upon poking it with my foot, it still moved. So....
Being that it wasn't a poisonous snake and in fact it is known to
eat poisonous snakes (cannibalism?) I decided to rescue it, sort
of.
The snake was annoyingly tangled in a brand new net, so there were
only two ways to get it out. I could either decapitate it into
small pieces and pull it through the holes or I could rescue it.
There was also the option of leaving it for nature to take care of
it of course. I chose to rescue it because well, I felt bad for it.
First of all, it got caught in my netting, meaning it was just
lurking around looking for mice and then got caught in the
net. Plus, it would be a pretty terrible death to die of
starvation, I'm sure snakes take many days to die from that.
I don't particularly care to touch snakes or get near them, I let
them be and that's about as far as I go with snakes. They are
emotionless and cannot learn them since they lack the mental
capacity. Perhaps that's why religion such as Christianity often
associates snakes with demons? Well, snakes can tolerate people and
other things given that they are no threat and are used to it but
the concept of love / like is impossible. So loving a snake is only
a one-way relationship :P
With that said, I was a bit nervous considering I've never been
bitten by a snake before, nor have I ever held one bare-handed. The
snake had the netting all around its face and mouth so it
couldn't bite me even if it tried so I felt pretty relieved for
that reason alone. It took about a good 30-40 minutes before i got
the netting cut from its body, I was being slow and extra careful
because the string was so tight on its body and it suffered several
wounds from it.
The hard part was now happening, I was face to face with the snake.
My hands were no more than an inch away from its mouth and I was
freeing its face as much as I could. Eventually it got so scary
that I had to use a stick to hold its little head down while
cutting the string but sadly I couldn't remove it all before it
"ran" away.
Overall, I wouldn't recommend saving a snake unless you knew it
wasn't poisonous. Snakes get a bat rep because of the few that are
but most are not. This snake must have been about 4-5ft long maybe?
But it definitively thought that I was going to eat it for dinner
the way it looked at me in the end. It was standing tall being
still and telling me to get away, which I did.
Hopefully the little snake found a way to remove the last bit of
string from its mouth, and I wish I could say it was a perfect
recovery but life isn't a Disney movie. I hope that one day, it
will eat all the mice it can eat near my house. lol