I don't deal with poisonous snakes but pick up a lot of garter and other snakes so I don't run them over with a lawnmower or something. When they freak out the either pee or vomit a recent meal. Mostly they don't but it does happen.
These nutcase pastors (and participants) get exactly what they deserve for their stupidity and animal cruelty. The snakes are kept in small wooden boxes when they are not part of the "service," much like circus elephants. Reptiles are cold blooded, which means they cannot regulate their body temperature internally; they must move in & out of shade. They can't do that in a box in a storage shed. When they are cold, they can't digest food & they can't move very well; that's why these idiot pastors rarely get bitten; they are mistreating animals that are already starving & suffering.. And, since snakes have no arms or legs, they're afraid of falling. They don't like to be dangled & bounced around. What would God or Jesus say about abusing animals?
What's interesting is that those are ducks and chicks, and neither seem to be the offspring of the hen.
This is a pretty creepy thing……… it is a snake that is covered in something that does look like fur, or something similar; definitely not your regular garden variety snake. This is a screenshot from a video that I saw on Twitter, so the snake is alive and moving around in the video.
Mary, last year there were young men here who were looking for rattle snakes for the venom, they extract it and sell it to labs.
I don't know because we haven't seen them since, but I'm sure they found some since we do have a good bit of them or did 5 years ago. Now there have been so many people moving here clearing habitat and most city slickers want to kill wildlife. Going to town now we've never seen so much traffic on the state roads. All speeding by and they hate vans especially with us slower seniors driving. Of course even driving the speed limit makes them mad.
I. Hate. Snakes. I have handled boas and pythons years ago when I owned a pet shop, but I don't like them.
I don't like spiders and snakes, another song. But I grew up with both, Where we live in Florida the Boas are taking over, already killed all the life in the Everglades, what man didn't kill, they finished off. Even gators aren't safe from them.