Snakes alive!

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Never cared for snakes.

They are, for the most part, silent little critters . . . moving stealthily through the grass. Without warning they rise to alarm or attack.

Most probably, though, the greater part of my discomfort with our cold-blooded belly-crawlers comes from the fact that they are so "other" -- so different from me. I simply do not understand how a snake thinks (or if they do!). They act in such an opposite manner from the human way with which I am so familiar.

Not to say there are no human "snakes." Belly-crawling, ground dwellers who lie in wait for the unsuspecting. I've seen these a-plenty . . . and the damage they can do.

Never cared for snakes. But I repeat myself.