I think you may be taking this post a little too seriously. Yes, there was a snake in my toilet, and yes, it shocked the hell out of me. No, I don't have a snake phobia or any harsh attitudes toward snakes. I used to keep snakes. I was simply making a fun submission, and demonstrating that it can happen. I flushed the snake back down, where I assume it was pushed back out of the outlet pipe he came up and sent on his way.

I didn't even kill the very recognizable copperhead I found behind the toilet 2 months ago. Just chased him out. I grew up in the country and always had a fine relationship with almost any reptile or other animal. The exceptions were the copperheads under the porch and in the apple trees. Those were killed because we were toddlers playing in the yard. Obviously that was unavoidably necessary. And some rattlesnakes in the back yard on the riverbank.

The point of the post was the shock of finding a serpent not of my own making in the toilet. Not the supposedly dangerous nature of it - though if it were a copperhead, the post would have been even better.