I was about 2 1/2-3 with mine....We lived in the mtns in NC and mother had taken me outside while she hung up the laundry on the clothesline and I was playing on the patio...she had to run back into the house to get more clothes pins and by the time she came back out 2 king snakes had crawled onto the patio and I'd picked them up (yes both of them). To this very day I can hear my mother saying "Shannon Faye put those snakes down right this minute young lady" and I did and they slithered away...then she realized that they were SNAKES (talk about a delayed reaction
)and totally freaked out and yanked me off of the ground and ran me into the house.....I dont ever remember being outside at that particular house again