Re: Funny things people have told you about snakes.
Originally Posted by mdb730
According to these stories snakes love breast milk so they enter homes with a sleepy breast feeding mother at night and latch on to the mother's breast. These conniving snakes would then put the tip of their tail in the babies mouth to keep the baby happy suckling and the sleepy mother unaware the snake was breast feeding .This was the only time I didn't bother to explain how harmless BPs are or try to dispel a misconception.
How else did you think they came up with the "milk snake" moniker?