jadebox
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We had a Black Racer crawl into our pool deck a couple of weeks ago. When I tried to encourage him to exit through the open screen door by waving a broom at him, he reacted by rattling his tail and snapping at the broom. He felt cornered so his reaction was very different than when I encounter them in our yard where they are quick to run away (hence the name Racer, I guess).I didn't know black snakes would rattle their tails until last summer. I walked around my garage and surprised a black snake, which struck a defensive poise and began rattling his tail in the leaves.
I asked a friend about that and he said it was very rare to see a black snake rattle his tail.
My wife and I are trying to help others get over their fear of snakes and to especially stop people from killing them for no reason.
We were at Epcot once when a group of people in front of us started yelling and jumping away. There was a small snake on the sidewalk. My wife picked it up and placed it in the grass so it wouldn't get hurt.
When we first moved into our house, we had a beautiful Indigo snake in our yard. It was about six feet long at the time and was about eight feet when we last saw it. But I think it has moved since we have cleared and cleaned up much of our yard.
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