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" Why is there an alligator walking down the street?"...Because it' is Tuesday and I live near a lake? LoL

"Why did the alligator cross the road?" To get to the other side. Did we learn nothing from chickens?

Cottonmouths are called such because of the white lining around their mouth. They can be found up and down the Mississippi River Valley. Also, my state is known for the aforementioned snake, as well as copperheads, brown recluse and black widow spiders, elk, black bears, and the occasional bus-sized catfish.

I think after this, you deserve a ‘favourite puppy breeds in each state’ video 😂😂😂

Antlers are made of bone, with specific parts composed of keratin. That's the substance that makes up finger nails in humans. They can actually get pretty sharp and do damage if a deer charges.

In Arizona we commonly can experience seeing coyotes, mountain lions, bears, rattlesnakes, various snakes, black widows spiders, gila monsters, rarely seen cougars, jaguars. It's common to wear your shoes indoors because of various critters that may sneak inside our homes.

I was eating when you asked, "What's the antlers made of? Wood?" Almost choked 😂 10:40

When I was little I was throwing rocks at a water moccasin swimming across the lake. It turned and came after me! It would have gotten me too if there wasn't a picnic table there for me to climb up on. It circled for a while and gave up. That experience taught me a very good lesson. Never tease and animal.

Hope no one played a drinking game every time they saw a snake in this video 😆

When my sister was a teenager she went to visit her father (same mom, different fathers) in Florida and while she was there a sink hole opened up in the back yard and when my sister went out to look at the hole there was an alligator in right there in the hole...about 4ft. away from where she was standing. I'm a born and raised Virginian and have, on many occasions, had close calls with Cottonmouths.

The alligator, like the chicken, is just trying to get to the other side of the road.

Here in southern Louisiana we have alligators crossing the street and in peoples back yards.

Adam, cotton mouth so named because when it opens its mouth its solid white inside- like cotton. As a kid here in north Texas my dad and uncle discovered one in a utility drawer in our shed. It held big stuff like chain saws, etc. When they threw the drawer to the ground she didn't strike. After she was dispatched we discovered 6 whole hen's eggs she'd just swallowed from our neighbors chicken coop. Good times 😉

All scorpians flouresce under UV light. I have a field blacklight I take camping just to hunt them. There are actually a lot of scorpians across the US.

Hey Adam Couser, I'm in Columbus Ohio.. The most dangerous animal which may sound silly but DEER are the most dangerous animals where I live! Deer are numerous in the wooded areas of the city of Columbus. There are deer crossing warning signs also to be watchful for deer that maybe standing in the road or on the side of the road you are driving on. Deer often run across in front of your car. Deer are also hard to see because their camouflage body color blends in to the surroundings. Deer like to come out during sun rise and sun set. Deer can cost thousands of dollars of damage to your car if hit.

I'm a lifelong resident of Rhode Island. My mother was bitten by a deer tick and contracted Lyme disease in the 1980s. It was known to medicine then but was still rare, so she suffered for a long time before it was diagnosed. But it only made her uncomfortable. Her life wasn't ended, like the poor woman in Texas just last week whose remains were found in the mouth of an alligator. I could not live in the swampy parts of the southeastern U.S., knowing that a giant predator could appear at any moment. I went golfing once in Florida, and when I hit the ball near the water but not in it, I just hit another ball. It definitely was not worth the risk of being maimed or worse.

10:40 Antlers are basically an extension of the skull. While they are growing they have "velvet", the soft tissue that is delivering blood to the growing bone. When it's done the skin falls off and the antlers dry out to a somewhat flexible but hard weapon and showcase for the ladies.

I have lived in New Jersey most of my 45 years, and, in that time, I have only ever seen one Copperhead in the wild.

The Arkansas Alligator Farm has been a tourist attraction in Hot Springs since 1902. If you visit, you can feed 4-year-old little guys with pieces of hot dog or feed the big gators pieces of chicken, either way on a fish pole. Babe Ruth once hit a 500-ft. fly ball from Whittington Park right into the Alligator Farm.

I've got family with a cattle and bison ranch, bison are terrifying because all their weight is over their shoulders... they can literally turn on a dime to attack/charge

Who in the heck thinks that scorpions are the MOST DANGEROUS animals in Arizona?! That's actually hilarious! What about our bears, bobcats, mountain lions, coyotes and wolves just to name a couple?! As well as our Gila Monsters, rattlesnakes, black widows and brown recluse spiders.

I almost peed myself laughing when you screamed when the snake jumped in the Texas section. I would love to see you play a scary game with a lot of jump scares in it. Something light maybe, maybe Friday nights with Freddie! 😂

Why is an alligator crossing the street? Are you going to tell him he can't? 😂

Q: "why is there an alligator crossin' the fu@#in road bro" A: to get to the other side

In Ohio I have seen black bear, copperheads, had a mountain lion leave claw marks on our house (tracked him via prints that disappeared into thick brush), black widows were in our basement windows and my aunt spent 3 days in the hospital from a brown recluse bite. Oh, and Mothman (haha)

Just like the chicken, the alligator crossed the road . . . to get to the other side.

I live in the southern interior of British Columbia Canada, and we share our back country with black bears, grizzlies, wolves, mountain lions and wolverines - not to mention the herbivores that can kill you, like moose, elk and even deer. Anything I do “off-trail” requires a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with slugs as a companion! Peace (our grizzlies can weigh up to 1400lbs!)

The opening scene, south carolina, with the gator crossing the road; actually has most of these, I see copperheads/diamondbacks/blackwidows/black bears/deer/coyotes almost on a weekly basis. Gators are only around the coast

Bro I started watching when you 1st reacted to hockey and I've enjoyed all your content since 🙌🏽😂

VINDICATION!! I thought it was gonna be that stupid timber rattlesnake for Minnesota. Instead it's the goodest of giant puppers.

I'm in Knoxville Tennessee and I came home from work one evening to find a copperhead snake in my living room. Apparently, I forgot to completely close the patio door. Animal Control came out and removed him.

I’ve lived in a whole bunch of the states, and have spotted very few of these animals. My count is: multiple black widow spiders, a few brown recluses, one black bear that I helped a fellow middle aged woman to chase away from her chicken coop, a couple of moose from waaaay far off, and one copperhead snake on my back porch that I chased off by spraying it with a hose, poor thing. It was just out of hibernation, and not at all in the mood for a cold shower. Oh, and plenty of coyotes. I’ve never lived in a state with brown bear (that I know of) but I’m pretty sure the states I’ve lived in covered the rest of that list of dangerous animals, and most of my time there was spent near their territory. The thing is, it wound up being basically no danger. Yeah, the idea of them can be scary, but you have to either work really hard to fall afoul of them, or be insanely unlucky. Cars, on the other hand…. There were over 6 million car accidents reported to police last year. Now THAT is terrifying. Oh, and also, DEER. Deer are trying to kill us all. Talk about car accidents! I’m rooting for the hunters.

I see snakes quite often when I go play disc golf. Mostly just harmless snakes but every couple months I’ll run across a cottonmouth. The biggest snake I’ve seen was a 7 foot black snake. I’m always super careful when checking areas to find my discs. The craziest thing I’ve seen wasn’t snakes but near one of the lakes at one of the courses there were thousands of baby frogs. They were all about the size of a thumbnail. You couldn’t even walk down the fairway because there were so many of them.

I'm only at Iowa (brown recluse spider) and knowing how many more snakes and spiders there are is just giving me the giggles from having seen this before. Also.. Washington is also Washington DC. I'm from Washington state and I've never heard of a bull shark attack. We got bears. Cougars. Spiders. Killer whales. Naked dudes with axes. But never heard of a bull shark here. We have a beach that human feet wash up in and the government is just like 'meh.. happens'. A lot.

I live in Tennessee -we had a massive copperhead snake problem at our previous house.

Lived in quite a few places and had close run-ins with many of these animals. Rattlers, copperheads (stepped on a baby one in TN), stung by a scorpion in AZ, black widows, brown recluse, and a cottonmouth (swam behind my back in a flat bottomed boat while fishing in TN). Seen several others in the wild from a distance: Moose, wolves, coyotes, and elk to name a few. Drove from Arizona to Alaska for the military, best wildlife trip ever.

My step grandparents lived in a neighborhood in Florida. I'm from Minnesota. I had no idea at 10 years old that I needed to look for gators before going outside to play at their house. I learned that lesson REAL quick after nearly tripping on one. It wasn't huge but it was bigger than me at that point!

3:49 There are 32 species of rattlesnakes in the western hemisphere, Canada to Argentina. They prefer the desert though. Arizona alone has around 17 species. Only Alaska and Hawaii don't have snakes.

I live in Florida. I mostly grew up in FL, so I've seen plenty of alligators. My b/f spent the 1st 12 yrs of his life in South Carolina, near Myrtle Beach. His dad was working at a golf course one day & brought him w/ him. He was exploring a little creek or swampy area nearby, walking through the water. A golf cart full of older gentlemen passed by, stopped, & told him that there was an alligator stalking him! He turned around & saw the gator! He was about 10 at the time, so not too big. He, luckily, was able to get out before that gator decided to attack! So glad those men happened to drive by!

As a Kentuckian i can say that if i see a snake that isn't a rat snake or garden snake it is a copperhead and we don't let them live if they are around houses

When I was a kid in Alabama we used to swim at the swimming hole at the creek on my cousin's farm . There was a rope swing tied to a big limb of a big tree on the bank . Each time before we went in the water one guy would have to grab the rope swing and swing out kicking and splashing through the water lilies to scare the water moccasins away . It wasn't unusual to see one there . We would also camp out on the bank there overnight ,build a campfire and cook the fish we caught and the legs of the frogs we gigged there . Good times . In Alabama , we had the distinction of having all 4 of the poisonous snakes in the USA living there --- water moccasin , copperhead , rattlesnake , and coral snake .

I don't see how Mountain Lions are the most dangerous animals in Oklahoma when the Oklahoma Wildlife Department keeps denying they're here. Which is also odd because I've heard stories about people shooting them and all of sudden Park Rangers show up wanting to know where the Mountain lion, that isn't in Oklahoma, is buried because they know the person killed it.

My grandpa had a beach house in Rhode Island that our family would drive out to sometimes and there was a year when both my sister and I got ticks. For me I just felt my shoulder itching at night while in bed and while scratching it felt like that feeling when you scratch a pimple harder than you meant to and tore the whole thing off. Since this "pimple" felt far larger than normal I went into the bathroom expecting to find it a bit bloody but turns out to be a goddamn tick.

As a native resident of Oregon, I slept outside at my great aunt's house one time and after we lifted the blankets so we could deflate the air mattress I realized I spent the night on top of a brown Recluse, he just kinda chilled there in one of the divets

I guess we sure have a wide variety of snakes and spiders and scorpions over in the Americas, and as I grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside I learned really fast to keep my eyes open and watch my step.

I'll try to keep this short. But, I live in West Virginia USA and one Fall day I decided to go turkey hunting. The woods were abnormally dry due to lack of rainfall. That made a chipmunk sound like an elephant stomping through the woods. I was fully camouflaged, sitting with my back to a large oak tree, and using a turkey call every now and then trying to get one into shotgun range. I heard a slight rustling sound behind me and I very slowly peeked around the tree to see a bobcat had gotten to within thirty feet of me. I assume that it had heard my turkey call and was fixin to make me into lunch. Anyway, once it saw me it took off. Now, I've got over fifty years of hunting and fishing experience, so I kinda know my way around in the woods. It still amazes me just how close that thing was able to get to me before I heard it...and, I'm glad I did. An angry bobcat pouncing on my head thinking that I was a snack wouldn't be fun. Apologies for the ratchet-jawing...I dig the channel and keep the vids comin.

as a West Virginian im surprised they didn't put copperhead snake but maybe they got tired of using it since it was like 10 other entries

In Ohio, timber rattlesnakes are found only in the southern part of the state, south of the line defined by the furthest extent of the last glaciation (the terminal moraine). North of that line, the worst you'll come across is a Massassauga rattlesnake, which is shy and reclusive, generally only found in remote wetlands, and the venom of which might make you feel a little queasy for a while. I saw a Massassauga rattlesnake once in northern Indiana. It turned and slithered away just as fast as it could.

My stepdad and Mom owned a zoo called Snake-A-Torium.. had snakes, alligators, birds and animals. My stepdad would take tours through the alligators and snakes, and milk a snake for the tourists. He would walk through hundreds of water moccasins, and usually kept atleast 3 rattlers. He was bit on so many occasions that the anti-venom made him sicker than the bite.

The reason water moccasins are also called cotton mouths is because the the inside of their mouths looks like cotton. Most snakes would rather not bite you if they can avoid it. They don't want to waste venom on something they can't eat. I nearly stepped on a copperhead and it made a mock strike at me. We both gave each other a wide berth after that. My roommate was bitten by a black widow and was in excruciating pain for days. I've also been stung by a couple of scorpions. Unpleasant, but reportedly not nearly as bad as a black widow bite. In rural areas we lost a number of barn cats to coyotes and bobcats. I have seen a cougar in the wild before, but briefly, they're very shy.

The best part is, most of these states have more than just the one species off this list living there. In Mississippi where I live, we have Black Bear, Alligators, and wild boar (not a predator but dangerous when pissed off) for the big ones to worry about. Bobcats and Coyotes for the medium size fluff balls of rodent killing fury. We have 30 non-venomous snakes and 6 species of venomous snakes which are the Copperhead, Cottonmouth (named for the white lining in the mouth that they use as a predator deterrent), Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Timber/Canebrake Rattlesnake, Pygmy Rattlesnake, Eastern Coral Snake, and all kinds of fun venomous spiders as well. I’ve seen all but the Eastern Diamondback…it’s getting rare to see them these days as most people would rather kill them than appreciate the good they do for pest control/the environment. Remember, 70% of snakebites happen when trying to capture or kill them. They are just trying to survive like we are and are a vital part of a healthy ecosystem.

LOL!! I live in Arizona and I have scorpions in my backyard all the time, just a regular part of nature 😅. There are also Coyotes in my area as well

Camping in Maryland one summer I picked up a piece of firewood and discovered two Black Widow spiders, one with an egg sac. I put the wood down and backed away.

I think that this was the best reaction video I have ever seen. I have seen this video before, and watching your reactions, Adam, was priceless. I get your fear of snakes and spiders, they aren't my favorite either, but, I am no longer scared of them. Once you have experienced them, they are less frightening, and more respected as a fellow co-inhabitant of the planet. And, thank God for exterminators, and animal management so that there are professionals to deal with them and I don't have to. I currently live in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have bobcats, black bears, a host of other animals, insects, spiders and snakes. I am 62 and seen many "wild animals" in person. I am more in awe that fear. I stay out of their way, they leave me alone. Yes, I want to hug every bear I have ever seen. I want to bet every wolf and fox. I don't, of course, but, without question the kid in me wants to be friends with everyone and every animal and creature. Hope you have a great day. Thanks for your hard work. Peace, my friend.

I grew up in the woods and wetlands of southern Michigan and I was bit by more snakes and spiders of all varieties than most people see in their lifetime before I was 5 years old.

I was in a tube in Virginia, floating down the Shenandoah River, and a northern cottonmouth swam up to my tube, and tried to get on - I didn't know I could do a backbend, let alone on a tube in a river, and quicker than I've moved in decades. The snake just moved on to the next tuber. Better than tubing in Florida lol

I got bit by a brown recluse a few years ago. Didn’t even feel it. No necrosis. Left a circular scar.

I live in South Florida. The range for my job is outdoors. When we have to do night qualifications you see eyes glowing in the canal behind us. Stay out of the canals in Florida... Stay out of lakes and ponds too.

Elk , deer , moose antlers are formed by keratin . Keratin is what forms hair and finger nails . Also know that these animals antlers fall off every year and new ones are grown back . The antlers usually increase in size each year !

Adam, when I lived in Florida, I came home from work at midnight and found a 7 foot alligator laying across my driveway soaking up the heat from the sun-baked concrete. He finally moved after an hour so I could get into the house. And being the devoted husband, I forgot to mention it to my wife before she left for early Mass. LOL!!!

kansas here! gotta say i’m surprised we aren’t one of the spider states, i do see the occasional rattlesnake, but more so i see the brown recluse spiders. i’ve had spider traps that will catch over a dozen within a week. a bite from a brown recluse spider can decay a good chunk of flesh and muscle. my mom has a hunk of her arm that’s missing from a brown recluse bite that she got while sleeping. while i’m okay with a lil spider helping take care of the bugs in my house, brown recluse are murder on sight for me 😂

In Maine there are only grass snakes and garter snake. Not more than 12-18 inches long and harmless. Moose are prevalent however,and we have wolves and coyotes.

When we were kids, we loved playing in the nearby woods. My mom just told us, "Don't step on a snake!" But she never said anything about poking them with a stick.

I live in Washington State we have grizzly bears, black bears, wolfs, coyotes, cougar, rattlesnake, black widow, brown recluse, murder hornet, elk, moose, white tail deer which kills more people in America than any other animal "for the bambi lovers" and the sasquatch I have seen and now I find out about bull sharks

The water moccasin is called a cottonmouth because it has a defense mechanism in its mouth. It will open its mouth when threatened and it has this weird cotton looking thing that is a warning to predators.

Great video as always. 💚💚💚💚

"Why did the alligator cross the road?" What, like you're going to stop him? 😂😂😂

The most common snake I've seen was a garter snake. Not at all venomous, and rather timid. But herevin Pennsylvania, we do have rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes get their name because of the rattle at the end of their tail. The rattle, and the position of the snake before a strike is a warning to back off.

Yeah, bark scorpions are no joke. I remember house-sitting for a feiend a few years back and we found the place was infested. As the sun went down the ground started to crawl. I've never noped out of someplace faster than that

Florida has many of these: bull sharks, great white sharks, hammerhead sharks, rattle snakes, water moccasins, copperhead snakes, coral snakes, black widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, alligators, crocodiles, coyotes, panthers, bears, Zika virus, Naegleria fowleri (brain eating amoeba), box jelly fish, Portuguese Man-O-War, fire ants, kissing bug, ticks with Lyme disease, wild boar, eastern equine encephalitis (carried by mosquitoes). And we have introduced species like Joro flying spiders, pythons, anacondas, spectacled caiman, lion fish, yellow legged hornet, giant ground hornets (40mm long). You kind of get the idea that Florida has a few nasty creatures. It is also known as the shark attack capital of the world in new Smyrna Beach… And the lightning strike capital is around the Tampa Bay area. We also get hurricanes, water spouts, and tornadoes. We haven’t even talked about the plants that can do you harm. 😂

I happen to know several "Bears" that enjoy hugs LOL ("")BEARHUGS("")

My dad got bit by a brown recluse spider on the back of his neck when he was a young teen. He is now 48 years old and the place where he was bit still looks like a raw, freshly healed cigarette burn

I live about a half mile from the Columbia River in WA and I can attest I’ve seen at least one Bull Shark swim by…was the first and only shark I’ve seen

Hello from South Carolina - we have deer, snakes, spiders, alligators at the beach and golf courses, shark's, bears and lots of insects and tourists. I'm sorry to say "yes" there are pretty much dangerous animals in every state. The recluse and black widow spiders are just a few that are across North America. The snakes are also very prevalent across North America. Check out a video on Texas Rattlesnake Roundup it happens every year in texas.

Yellowstone National Park had a bison walk up lay its head on the hood of the truck and. look through the windshield. amazing

@6:56, That's how we find them at night, they glow in the dark with a uv light...but we have nearly all of the list😢😅...apart from moose alligators and crocodiles and sharks, jellyfish 😮 Adam, all snakes are great swimmers, especially water moccasins

Lol Arizona here and we do have tons of scorpions and snakes. We also have cougars and coyotes and stuff too. At my first apartment, a friend and I decided to go scorpion hunting for fun. They glow under black light so we took a 2 foot portable black light and went all over the complex. We counted 387 in about an hour of looking. 😂 My neighbor got stung 3 times behind her ear while she was sleeping. 😅 She was fine after a trip to the hospital

We have issues in california too with bears going into peoples houses looking for food. They can climb trees too. Was funny I saw on ktla 5 a bear in someone's pool with their cubs just chillin.

Most people don't realize how big Moose are. They weigh up to 1800 pounds, run about 30 mph and over 7 feet tall at the shoulder.

I live in Wisconsin and I've seen lots of bears and coyotes but never once a wolf😂 A bear walked across my front yard (in town) and once when I was walking down a bike trail (in town not in the woods) a bear peeked out of the bushes at me. I had my infant son in a stroller at the time. Imagine my terror.

I'm in Indiana and we have four venomous snake species. As an extra bonus, we have black widow and brown recluse spiders. We were clearing some brush on our property and my wife surprised a copperhead snake an got bit. We got her to the hospital within 10 minutes and she turned out OK.

When you live near Disney in Orlando, you can't even keep your sports bags in the garage or you'll reach inside and find rattlesnakes and a couple other venomous guys.

Here in Arkansas we have rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths (water moccasins), a few coral snakes, black widow spiders, and brown recluse spiders. We also have enough bears that we have a short bear hunting season.

1. Cotton mouths have white mouths, that's how they got the nickname. 2. Hawaii and Alaska have no native snake population, and strictly enforced laws to keep it that way. Pennsylvania has 67 counties, only 5 of which have elk. In terms of physical and property damage, white tail deer are the most "dangerous" due to vehicle accidents. Pennsylvania is also home to 4 species of poisonous spiders, 3 species venomous snakes, brown and black bear, coyote, and bobcats. Elk are barely a footnote when it comes to our dangerous wildlife. A couple weeks ago I had a bear let himself into my car, elk are the least of my concerns (don't have them in my county, anyway).

Great video. I have seen BlackWidow spiders , several species of snakes. When on campouts with my Boy Scout troop - we've seen a lot of wildlife. Birds of prey are not too be messed with either.

I’m 49 and I had no idea so many states had so many snakes much less poisonous or venomous ones 😬 STORY TIME: You can’t always explain or pin point how or why you fear something but I know exactly why I have a fear of snakes. We had property in the mountains in California. At around age 11 or 12 we had an infestation of rattle snakes. I mean it was like a plague… even the roads were COVERED in snakes. Mostly small baby ones but they are more aggressive and more dangerous in their initial bite. They strike repeatedly! Angry little jerks lol Anyway, we had to protect ourselves but also livestock since these things were so aggressive. As far as your eyes could see it looked like a snake pit from Indiana Jones or something. It was so bad that you weren’t scared as much as you’d think during it because you were too busy dealing with it. The worst part IMO was there were “bull” snakes too (I don’t know what they ACTUALLY were, that’s just what everyone called them, including game wardens). Their defense mechanism was they imitated rattle snakes… they looked like them and they even coiled up and shook the end of their tail to make you nope out before realizing they were faking. The reason I know what game wardens called them too was because these mo fos decided to be as aggressive as the babies! I got bite two different times but both times it was a huge ass bull snake. I’d say thankfully but they were having a bigger identity crisis than usual so when they bit, they thrashed around tearing the area. It was a freaking nightmare! In conclusion, I don’t give a rats behind if it’s “friendly”, alive, dead, or even fake… I’m going the other way. 😭

I’m with you on the 8 legged bug. I have a severe phobia. Had to cover up that part of the screen each time.

I've lived my whole life in FL and have never seen an alligator or bull shark. A turtle laid eggs in my yard, an opossum hissed at me and a family of armadillos made and appearance and I wasn't going anywhere near that because they carry leprosy. LOL

When I lived in Ohio I came across a Timber Rattler right in the middle of the trail I was on, soaking up some sun. I didn't even notice until I heard the rattle, it was 5 ft. in front of me. The rattle was the warning, I looked down and it coiled up ready to strike. I slowly backed up, and then took my phone out and got a pic. I wasn't frightened just excited to see one because they are very elusive. It just slithered away into the underbrush. No harm no foul.

Howdy from Southern West Virginia. We have whats called a hoop snake here in the backwoods. They roll up in a circle and chase their prey sometimes humans. One day was out on my four wheeler and ran over a 8 foot long timber rattler. I smushed his head first doing great speed then backed up in reverse and got him again. Coyotes and black bears and black panthers. 3 of the black panthers killed everyone of my chickens. My friend down the road had one on her roof one night she went out to see and slapped her on the head hanging down from her front door.

I live in East Tennessee, and i went hiking and fell off the trail and slid like 5 feet down the mountian and accidentally absolutely CRUSHED a copperhead with my falling body i felt so bad

Cottonmouths are named as such because the inside of their mouth's a bright pale hue, which they use to scare away potential predators by quickly opening their mouths for a flash of color.

There’s alligators outside my house everyday. I love them, they’re so cute 😂

You had me crying laughing, Adam! You crack me up! Your reactions are hilarious, and I love your personality! ❤ Keep up the great work!

In Tennesse we would go snake hunting at night flipping big rocks and grabbing the snakes underneath. Great jerky

I live in rural Missouri, and keep a snake killing shovel by my front porch.

I live in New Mexico and have lived in Arizona. I have seen diamond backs, scorpions, sidewinder and brown recluse and black widow spider.

In Southern California it's not unusual to find a black or brown bear in your pool or hot tub. When it gets hot, the pool is too good to pass up. They scamper off when yelled at....usually. Sometimes you have to call a forest ranger. They love pools and hot tubs! Why did the alligator cross the road? To get to the golf course, of coutse.

o7 When I was 9 years old I was camping in Oregon. A juvenile bear came through the campground and I just thought it was a big dog. It looked friendly and I went up to it and pet it. Suddenly about a dozen people came rushing out of their campers and tents screaming BEAR! they scared it away. I don't know it seemed pretty friendly to me.