if it has scales,Splat!! wrote:So.................If a Rattlesnake is in your living room, do you open the door and let it out or........... do you stomp it??
slithers on it's belly,
tastes the air with its tongue and
has fangs; it's a snake, and i didn't even need a profile. and since the nature of the snake is to bite, it will be dealt with accordingly.
if the snake could see reason, agreements could be met & it could leave on its own. else, communication is not effective; force is all that is left.
and since it is an animal and acts as one...well there you have it.
(*)when i was a young navjo boy growing up in the southwest on the res, as we say, we were dirtpoor, thanks to the whiteman. so we had to go to the creek to get water, 5 times a day, uphill (both ways), in the snow...i mean heat...you get the idea.
anyway, one day a snake decided to sun itself on the path to the creek. at first we didn't mind him and he didn't mind us. but, as things happen with paths and lands getting crowded, quite by accident, someone stepped on his tail (shouldn't have been there in the first place maybe, i dunno). then every day after that, he started biting people.
well eventually we had enough, and us boys went down there and stoned the snake (with rocks!). when we got back and told everyone what we did, quite proud of ourselves for showing that snake who was boss, the hataalli (med man for you palefaces) just shook his head and went to see the snake.
when he got there, the snake was pretty bad off, we didn't kill it, we'd just wanted it to go away. so the hataalli is healing the snake and asks him; they stoned you b/c you were biting people and making them sick. why did you start biting the people?
i was angry b/c someone stepped on my tail said the snake, if snakes could talk.
he finished tending the snake, put him aright but before he left, as is the way of old tribal men; he had one parting shot;
"it's o.k. to be angry, but sin not."
(*)disclaimer, i am not of the navajo tribe, i just thought that a clever hook