Snakes...coming soon!

[sarahandmark]

Small dead black one spotted squashed on our lane yesterday - we are at 490 meters near Amandola.

[herealready]

Every year on the forum snakes are discussed and it always baffles me why if people are scared of snakes would they buy a house in Italy?
Pigs are apparantly life threatening at the moment with the current pig flu problem, so are these snake fearing, stick wielding numpties going to start on the wild boar next?

[sueflauto]

I'm more scared of Italian drivers yet I still live here. Why should fear of one particular aspect of life put people off?

Wild boar hunt, count me in... mmmmm ... ragu!

[Cinghiale]

Originally Posted by sueflauto

Wild boar hunt, count me in... mmmmm ... ragu!

I consider this posting to be in very poor taste!

[alan h]

Originally Posted by sueflauto

........Wild boar hunt, count me in... mmmmm ... ragu!

Originally Posted by Cinghiale

I consider this posting to be in very poor taste!

Not if its properly seasoned.


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[Noble]

Originally Posted by herealready

Every year on the forum snakes are discussed and it always baffles me why if people are scared of snakes would they buy a house in Italy?
Pigs are apparantly life threatening at the moment with the current pig flu problem, so are these snake fearing, stick wielding numpties going to start on the wild boar next?

I am hoping to go to Heaven (and to meet Gala there)! I think it's a place very high up? There are snakes here at 627 mts. but only the vipers are dangerous. Despite that people are frightened of them and a great many of us have paying guests, so I suggested laying camphor tablets near the house to keep snakes at bay. Thinking ahead and blocking up those places that snakes will hide in, will ensure that guests are both happy and blissfully ignorant.

[adriatica]

fear of snakes is quite common and often inspired by a catholic upbringing... indeed i find that most Italians are even more scared of snakes than I so according to the theory of not living in a place that might contain something that scares you Italy would have virtually no Italians...

i agree that fear should not result in violence... i actually have more fear of killing things ...even snakes than i do of anything else and find the aspect of Italians general behaviour on the roads of running over virtually anything that moves somewhat sickening...

the murdering instinct does go out the window as regards things like mosquitoes which i have no fear of just a complete hate for... so i spray the house and around the place to kill these things... i know chemical use is frowned upon here... but i enjoy a summer free of that horrible evening buzz...or sleepless nights... anyway its another common Italian practice that i have taken on... and usually two or three sprays between now and autumn sort the dastardly biting things out...

i keep all long grass cut down so i can see the snakes before i step on them... however with four dogs all Italian born and bred its more the fact that they kill everything that moves on our land and its a bit of a race when i hear their sort of attack barking me with a broom to chase them back inside away from the reptile... so it can slip safely off or if they get it first allowing them to get on with it and finish the kill... because there is no way due to my fear that i am going to bring an injured snake anywhere ... and definitely no mouth to mouth or whatever part they breath through is on the books...

fear is healthy... killing for fear is somewhat irrational and there are better ways of solving snake problems.... around your property many of them suggested in previous posts

we live at around the 650 m slm and we have hundreds of snakes of all varieties... and they are as common here as anything... especialley the big black non poisonous ones... but plenty of vipers too... and can quite happily say have not managed to kill any ... and indeed its against the law here to kill them in any case... they are protected...