Five hundred snakes discovered at B.C. construction site

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Five hundred snakes discovered at B.C. construction site

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First posted: Monday, March 02, 2015 06:54 PM EST



The Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C. has its hands full after 500 garter snakes were delivered in buckets to its doorstep last week.


A construction team working to repair a dike in Delta, B.C., dropped off the slithery creatures after a hibernation den was discovered within the work site.


While garter snakes are harmless, the idea of handling 500 of them at once is, uh, not our idea of fun.
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ya gotta see 'em in narcisse manitoba. now there be snakes.
 
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Other than secreting a stinky white goo from their scales when handled, They are completely harmless. We bought a house in the Slocan valley back in 1990. It was built on an incline with a cement stair case running up the side of the foundation. It had separated from the foundation over the years, and there must have been a small cavern created under it. In the spring, on the first really warm day, I was in the house when I hear my wife screaming like a banshee outside. When I got there she was almost catatonic with terror. There were hundreds of garter snakes all over the stairs and lawn. I grabbed a cardboard box and rounded them all up an carried them a safe way from her screaming. Poor little guys were freaked right out. I laughed ans said, "You know what Freud would say about this?" she said no. I said "fear of snakes is a fear of p e n i s e s." She hit me. I was kinda hoping she would do something else to prove me wrong. :)
 
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