Nottingham June 2018

From the NCCIA
Board of Directors
Christy, Linda & Courtney Wade - An Award Winning Team!
CHRISTY WADE
Sales & Marketing Specialist
REALTOR ®
832.483.0630
cwade@garygreene.com
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Broker Associate
Relocation Specialist
281.728.7999
wadelrt@garygreene.com
COURTNEY WADE
Sales & Marketing Specialist
REALTOR ®
832.752.2670
courtney.wade@garygreene.com
Whether you’re interested in buying or selling,
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to find out what’s important to you and your family.
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Surprising and
Cool Facts About Snakes
Odds are, you don’t like snakes. We aren’t going to ask you to change
your mind, but maybe after reading this article you will dislike them a
little less. We are going to share some amazing facts about snakes that
will probably surprise you. For example, you don’t want to know how
many rats there would be if we didn’t have snakes (hint: we would be
overrun).
To get more information on snakes, we spoke to snake expert Clint
Pustejovsky, who has made it his life’s mission to change people’s
attitudes toward them. Over the last 16 years, he has educated more than
1 million people with his presentations (that is not an exaggeration). He
has been studying snakes for over 40 years. “My goal in life is to have
my tombstone read, ‘More snakes have their heads because of Clint,’”
he says.
The first lesson you need to learn is that snakes - even venomous ones
- want absolutely, positively NOTHING to do with you. The only reason
snakes ever bite is because a person has inadvertently stepped on them,
accidentally grabbed them or has intentionally tried to pick them up.
And bites are uncommon.
If that doesn’t comfort you, please know that at any sign of humans,
snakes are scared and will make haste in the opposite direction. They
certainly don’t chase humans; if there is one coming toward you, it is
because it is confused. Snakes don’t have ears and therefore can’t hear.
They are just panicked and reacting to what they feel is threatening
movement. We are, after all, much bigger than they are. You are more
likely to be struck by lightning (1 in 700,000 chance in a year) than be
bitten by a snake.
There are in fact four venomous snakes in Texas - coral, cottonmouth,
copperhead and rattlesnakes. Again, they don’t want to be anywhere
near you.
The second fact about snakes we would like to share concerns their
contributions to modern medicine. For more than 40 years, hospitals
have used a solution that contains snake venom to break up blood clots.
Pustejovsky says copperhead venom has been part of a phenomenally
successful remedy that kills breast cancer cells, but not normal cells.
Snake venom has also been helpful in regenerating heart tissue after
congestive heart failure.
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And now let’s talk about those rats and mice too. Both are prolific when
it comes to reproduction. There is one species of rat wherein one pair
can generate 2,000 descendents in one year. So let’s thank the rat snake,
which is common in Ft. Bend and Harris counties, for eating up to 250
mice per year and 50 field rats (you know, the BIG ones). We should also
thank the tiny ribbon snakes, because they eat harmful insects in our
gardens.
On the flip side, snakes are also a great food source for many species
of birds and opossums too. Pustejovsky says so many people dislike
snakes because that is what they are taught to do. He’s just hoping more
people give snakes a chance. If you would like more information, his
presentations are very entertaining and informative. He can be found via
his website, www.texassnakes.net.
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