Where I grew up, in Iowa, most snakes that were seen were garter snakes. Harmless. I was ok with them, didn't really handle them much but wasn't afraid of them.
Where I live now, in Colorado, there are a fair amount of rattlesnakes. It's the mountains or something, well, obviously different climate and altitude and all, but since there's now a better-than-average chance of the snake being not only poisonous but potentially deadly, I'm now afraid. And highly avoidant. Even if the snake is *not* poisonous.
Oh yeah... and we have both black widow and brown recluse spiders in Colorado as well. Can we say "feed the arachnophobia"? I thought we could...
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Date: 2005-08-21 08:28 pm (UTC)Where I live now, in Colorado, there are a fair amount of rattlesnakes. It's the mountains or something, well, obviously different climate and altitude and all, but since there's now a better-than-average chance of the snake being not only poisonous but potentially deadly, I'm now afraid. And highly avoidant. Even if the snake is *not* poisonous.
Oh yeah... and we have both black widow and brown recluse spiders in Colorado as well. Can we say "feed the arachnophobia"? I thought we could...