[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Blueblaze

I don't know about beating me up, but he sure seemed cocky about giving those birds fits. I've never had a snake try to chase me before. But I agree, monkeys and just about everything else in this world is more dangerous than a little snake.

They're usually very shy -- sometimes almost friendly. We used to keep chickens back in Texas and we had a big rat snake that used to hang out in the chicken coop and steal an egg once in a while as payment for keeping the rats away. He got so tame that I could pick him up. If I found him in the nest box, I had to shoo him out to get the eggs. And he had a weird thing going on with the chickens. One evening I came out to close the coop and he was in there probing for something under Edith's wing. I don't know what the heck he was doing, but Edith didn't seem too concerned. Maybe they all got a massage every night at bedtime.

There's just a lot more going on in the animal world than we realize.

I agree that animals can be unpredictable (also humans).