# The backyard fauna is a tad more dangerous than I though...

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**Created:** [July 25, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backyard-fauna-is-a-tad-more-dangerous-than-i-though/457733 "2008-07-25T14:29:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-backyard-fauna-is-a-tad-more-dangerous-than-i-though/457733/21 "2008-07-29T04:28:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Quartz]  
A friend of my father’s was out East years ago. One day he went looking for his very young daughter and found her at the back of the house feeding ice cream to a cobra :eek:. Every time the cobra got too close, she bopped it on the head with her spoon!  
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A few thoughts:

1. Gah!

2. I didn’t know snakes ate ice cream. It seems a little, well, inanimate for their tastes.

3. Hi, Opal!

4. Aaaaaaaaaaaagh!

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