Last Monday Kaylee and I were cleaning up around the house, watering trees and just playing around out side. After a couple hours Kaylee wanted to go inside so she went in and I stayed out with Jinx. Jinx is a born hunter and loves to chase birds and find mice and rabbits. But most of the time she bark at them just playing and tends to bark at nothing.
Well while I was out with her she was barking at something near by the house but I didn't pay much attention to her. Just figured she was barking at the neighbors dog or something. Well she kept barking and barking and it was a different bark then what I am use too. So I went over to see what the big deal was and to my complete shock was a HUGE snake coiled up ready to strike at Jinx. I instantly started to freak out and started to shake. It looked just like a Rattlesnake.
So I start screaming at Jinx to get her to come to me so she doesn't get bit. After about a minute that seemed like forever she finally come to me and I grabbed her and tiptoed into the house watching for other snakes on the way. I grabbed Kaylee and we got into the car and went to go run the snake over. Well when I got there I found that not only was there one HUGE snake, but that there were two HUGE snakes! And they were breeding! So gross I thought I was going to puke.
Well I ran over them in my car the best I could, I couldn't really tell if I was running them over because I was too scared to stick my head out the window and see. Even though I knew that they couldn't jump up and get me I still couldn't roll down the window.
They took off under the fence headed to my house and I started really freaking out, so I had to go back around the fence and try and run them over again, but I couldn't find them after that.
I was calling mom and dad scared out of my mind.
Dad was so funny because he said if I see them again just run them over or just go out there and cut their heads off. Haha There is no way I could do that! I was terrified just getting into my car after seeing them. No way could I get close enough with a shovel to cut its head off. So after talking to dad a couple times I think he could really hear the fear in my voice or me trying to hold back the tears. So him and mom showed up about 20 minutes later to try and help me. Dad got a shovel and mom found a long pair of bolt cutters that we had under our carport and they were on a mission to kill the snakes for me. Sadly we couldn't find them but dad found some holes that they could have got into and covered them up for me.
(Not very good pictures of it with my cell phone, And it was on zoom because I couldn't get close enough for a decent picture)
Well yesterday I was taking a nap on the couch when I woke to the same bark that I heard coming from Jinx that previous Monday. I slipped on my shoes and ran out to find that Jinx had the snake pinned up against our house! It wasn't as aggressive as it was the previous time, so I was watching how close Jinx was getting to it without it striking her, so I grabbed her and stuck her in my car so that she didn't doing anything stupid while I was out there being stupid.
I got a shovel and put on my brave face and told myself I was going to chop it's head off like dad told me too. Haha again! I still couldn't get as close to it as Jinx was, but I still tried to do it but all I did was hit it in the neck and it retreated(glad it didn't get mad and try and bit me) It started going under my house through a small whole! Oh my gosh! No way is this thing going under my house! I started trying to grab it with the shovel and pull it back, but it was no use, so I put the shovel on the rest of it that was sticking out (about 10") of under my house and pushed down hard enough that it couldn't go any further.
I started calling Mom, Dad, Cameron and Bobby. Bobby was about 4 hours away and no cell phone service, Cameron didn't have his phone and was about an hour away working anyways. Mom and Dad were in a meeting and couldn't answer there phone at the time but called me back shortly after. They were trying to hurry things up in their meeting to come out and help me.
Meanwhile I was out side in my shorts and freezing in the wind holding on to that shovel for dear life hoping that snake didn't find away back out to bit me. Kaylee was inside sleeping but a while later woke up and was crying for me but there wasn't anything I could do unless I let go of the snake. The snake had a little whole that he started peeking his head out to look at me and he was making this really loud noise at me and it was pretty intimidating. He was also using his tail to push against the shovel and try to push it off of him, he was very strong because I was really having to use a lot of strength to keep the shovel on him.
After about an hour of holding him mom and dad showed up. Dad grabbed him by the tail and ripped him out of there. He really put up a fight for dad too. Dad walked up to him took a few wackes at him with a shovel and then he was dead.
I am soooo grateful that Dad was able to come out and save me from the snake.
Dad said the snake is 5+ feet long, but when you are next to him he looks like he is 10 feet. We arent too sure of what kind of snake he is. Dad was thinking a Bullsnake or a Blowsnake, Both of witch are not poisonous but still unwelcome at my house.
Last night I had a pretty weird nightmare about snakes and they were everywhere! Kinda funny. Why does everything like this only happen when Bobby is out of town? Funny how it works out.
Thanks Jinx for finding the snakes for me and thanks so much Dad for coming out and fixing my problem!
They looked so pretty out side so I went to take a picture of them. If you look in the above picture you can see that it is a little bit brighter then it is in the below picture. 
