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A rattlesnake! OMG! Glad you saw it before it saw you!GLad you are O.K.  Don't like snakes either.  Or gophers!!!!! 

Yeah, I don't mind snakes at all, used to catch garter snakes all the time for my kids and let them keep them during the summer as pets - BUT I wouldn't have any sense of humor for a rattler!  Just be on the lookout for yourself and your pets.  If it was a small one there is most likely a whole family of brothers and sisters in the neighborhood. Way to go Snow Owl!!! I'm so impressed that you whacked a rattlesnake!  Reading your story that song by Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox popped into my head, "Sisters are doing it for themselves"... YEOW!!! You are much braver than I am , i so do not like snakes. I would have went a distance away and threw stones at it until it slithered away. Your post is very interesting.  I wonder how many of you have noticed that your symptoms improve when you become totally focused on something else. I can't tell you how many times I've felt really crummy, but after leaving the house and getting busy with life, be it shopping, volunteering, or what-have-you, I get so involved in what I'm doing that sometimes I'll stop and say "Hey, the pain's gone!"  That isn't to say the the pain wasn't real, but the mind is so powerful that I think focusing on other things can be a big help to us.  I know this isn't a totally new idea, and I know that for some, the pain is too intense to be ignored no matter what, but in many cases our symptoms can improve with activity and I think that's what happened to you SnowOwl.  Your adrenalin kicked in and put your stiffness in the background and let you do what needed to be done.  I think you were very brave, BTW!Had a guy come to the ER on Sunday by ambulance after being bitten by a rattle snake. His friend had choppped it's head off with a hoe just as you did. They broght the snake with them. It was about 3 feet long. Not a very big one, but still. The way I understand it is that the little ones are more potent than the big guys, glad you saw it before he gotcha!THe thing about gophers is if you are trying to grow some vegetables, they eat the roots so you have to grow in a box with protected bottom.  Then you need net over the top to protect from the birds.  It is not easy. I do like snakes, we have a pet corn snake (Bella).  But rattlers are a different story.  Glad you didn't get hit.  Did you kill it?  If yes, did you keep the rattle?? Linncn2008-08-19 15:10:34Some time last year... I went to in-laws house and hubby & kids walked ahead of me and into the house. I can tell you this much... I have no reflexes and I would be bit. I happened upon a large black/brown snake. It was in the same path hubby and the kids went thru and they just flew by it not even noticing it. I on the other hand look down when I walk, and I was not really walking, more like the RA creep. Then I saw it and stepped back a little and started screaming. They all came running out of the house and I told them snake. They chopped it head off. Turned out to be a rat snake, but if it were a venomous snake I would have been bit probably. I am a total chicken when it comes to snakes and other creepy crawlies.