Defeating My Snake Phobia

Snakes and I have had a challenging time together, from nothing at all together, to not liking them, to being phobic about them, and now, back to not liking them around my place, but OK about them other times.

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I live in South Australia, rural South Australia in fact, and I am a dog owner. My dogs most recently, before my current one, had been Pharaoh Hounds, a breed of dog that was bred to be a hunter, a hunter of…