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**GinaIsWild** · 05-25-2012, 03:54 AM

Wow! quite a discussion. I generally echo John's expressed sentiments, and generally have no ill will towards snakes and their eating of whatever. Nature does it's thing when i'm not watching, and that's fine. If I saw a snake with legs sticking out of it's mouth, then I would have said 'oh well..' and not had any bad feelings about anything too much. But, we had had a nice day and when this toad just happened to make eye contact with me as the snake was trying to head off with it, I decided that my day wasn't going to be as nice if I just walked off thinking 'too bad for you' (smile). I have seen people who were, in their lives, in a sort of position as that toad was; in the grasp of something that could take them under for good, and i'm sure that those people wished they had someone to help them out. It wasn't a person, and like john said the snake will eat again, and I did make sure to apply loving taps to it's head just enough to discourage it's holding onto the toad, and also to apply the forked stick to the ground to firmly hold it without harming the snake, until the toad was gone. I think life is made up of a collection of small gestures, and what effort we make towards little things will sort of show who we are in general. .. and in this world where everybody is in such a darned hurry to do whatever they feel like to distract themselves from important things, it is important to keep your eyes open to help in small ways whenever we can. especially in times when things are hard, we need to work harder to do things like this or else our hearts could turn cold. .. and i don't think there is much that can warm hearts that have turned cold. i completely sympathize with the knowledge that snakes must eat toads, or else we would be up to our armpits with them, but on that day and that situation that toad was going to hop away (hopefully not into traffic

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.. and i have to jokingly add to the sentiment that 'let nature take it's course'; "if you were out in the woods and a bear started chasing you, and you happened to run by me and I had a shotgun in my hand, if you looked me in the eye and said 'help!; should I just say, 'let nature take it's course' ?"

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05-25-2012, 03:54 AM	#20
GinaIsWild Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 526 Senior Member	Wow! quite a discussion. I generally echo John's expressed sentiments, and generally have no ill will towards snakes and their eating of whatever. Nature does it's thing when i'm not watching, and that's fine. If I saw a snake with legs sticking out of it's mouth, then I would have said 'oh well..' and not had any bad feelings about anything too much. But, we had had a nice day and when this toad just happened to make eye contact with me as the snake was trying to head off with it, I decided that my day wasn't going to be as nice if I just walked off thinking 'too bad for you' (smile). I have seen people who were, in their lives, in a sort of position as that toad was; in the grasp of something that could take them under for good, and i'm sure that those people wished they had someone to help them out. It wasn't a person, and like john said the snake will eat again, and I did make sure to apply loving taps to it's head just enough to discourage it's holding onto the toad, and also to apply the forked stick to the ground to firmly hold it without harming the snake, until the toad was gone. I think life is made up of a collection of small gestures, and what effort we make towards little things will sort of show who we are in general. .. and in this world where everybody is in such a darned hurry to do whatever they feel like to distract themselves from important things, it is important to keep your eyes open to help in small ways whenever we can. especially in times when things are hard, we need to work harder to do things like this or else our hearts could turn cold. .. and i don't think there is much that can warm hearts that have turned cold. i completely sympathize with the knowledge that snakes must eat toads, or else we would be up to our armpits with them, but on that day and that situation that toad was going to hop away (hopefully not into traffic ) .. and i have to jokingly add to the sentiment that 'let nature take it's course'; "if you were out in the woods and a bear started chasing you, and you happened to run by me and I had a shotgun in my hand, if you looked me in the eye and said 'help!; should I just say, 'let nature take it's course' ?" Quote:
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