Killing Snakes is NOT ALLOWED!!!

I had a dream the other night...unfortunately it was about a spitting Cobra snake and it was red.  Not your average burnt red color you would normally find on a reptile, but fire engine red.

We were somewhere near a creek or small river with trees lining the banks on one side.  I don't even know who "we" are because I really never saw who I was with in my dream.  The other side of the small river or creek had something similar to river rocks where you could drive or walk.  Some pebbles of some sort.  People could also have picnics along the bank because there were plenty of tables scattered here and there.  Also, many people just seemed to be laying out in the sun in chaise lounge chairs...kind of like a beach.

We were buzzing along the bank in our truck when all of a sudden this big, huge, gigantic (it was really large) red snake that was as big as an anaconda or python raised up off the branches of several trees where it had been basking in the sun.  It started thrashing this way and that, striking anything that moved down and wrapping itself around cars and people and squeezing.  It was like it had tentacles...many tentacles like an octopus, but this was a cobra snake like no one had ever seen and it was irate!

That's all I remember!

Speaking of snakes...did you know it is illegal in Kansas and Missouri to kill a snake?  Yes, it most certainly is.  Snakes are protected...no matter the kind...venomous or not.  A person must feel threatened with their life in order to be able to legally kill a snake.  Go ahead, look it up!  I learned this fact from the ranger at the Missouri Conservation Nature Center in Springfield and from the ranger at the Kansas Conservation Nature Center in Galena.

So, the moral to the story is...if a fire engine red spitting cobra with tentacles starts squeezing you to death...you have permission to kill it.  But, if you just happen to SEE the fire engine red spitting cobra basking in the sun on some tree branches, you must leave it alone!

Happy snakey dreams!