{"id":86425,"date":"2025-05-09T04:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86425\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T04:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:26:17","slug":"hopefully-theyre-not-too-mad-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86425\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hopefully they&#8217;re not too mad at me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikToker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thatwendi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendi<\/a> (@thatwendi) posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thatwendi\/video\/7490232820099534111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> of creatures she found while gardening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully they&#8217;re not too mad at me,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thatwendi\/video\/7490232820099534111\" data-video-id=\"7490232820099534111\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\"><p>  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@thatwendi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@thatwendi?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@thatwendi<\/a> I find all sorts of creatures when getting the garden ready. #<a title=\"garden\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/garden?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#garden<\/a>#<a title=\"gardening\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/gardening?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#gardening<\/a>#<a title=\"gardeningtiktok\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/gardeningtiktok?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#gardeningtiktok<\/a>#<a title=\"vegetablegarden\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/vegetablegarden?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#vegetablegarden<\/a>#<a title=\"vegetablegardening\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/vegetablegardening?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#vegetablegardening<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Wendi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7490232836037921567?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Wendi<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wendi explained and showed in her video that when she moved her composting bin, she discovered several baby snakes under the bin&#8217;s original location.<\/p>\n<p>She said that they look harmless, so she decided to let them stay, but she requested that her viewers and followers help identify them, just to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a natural environment around your home is a great way to attract wildlife native to the area and promote a balanced ecosystem, and there are great ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.thecooldown.com\/journeys\/upgrade-your-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upgrade your yard<\/a> that have benefits to you and to the environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.thecooldown.com\/actions\/rewild-your-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rewilding your yard<\/a> by planting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/outdoors\/native-plants\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"17\" title=\"What are native plants, and why are they so crucial to our ecosystems?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">native plants<\/a> is an excellent place to start. 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These products are also one less thing to spend money on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the video, Wendi said she hoped the snakes were harmless because &#8220;I like happy snakes, not nope ropes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commenters were able to confirm that the snakes were, indeed, harmless, and actually beneficial to her garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good for the garden and harmless,&#8221; one person commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for letting them be,&#8221; said another.<\/p>\n<p>Another person declared, &#8220;I love a healthy ecosystem!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Join our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/hacks-newsletter\/?recNxLrv6npMn0ckN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free newsletter<\/a> for easy tips to <strong>save more<\/strong> and <strong>waste less<\/strong>, and don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/rb.gy\/ivhzmj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this cool list<\/a> of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"36\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/divider-icon-earth.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"Cool Divider\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikToker Wendi (@thatwendi) posted a video of creatures she found while gardening. &#8220;Hopefully they&#8217;re not too mad at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,1203,13537,28944,1444,28945,2511,21483,70,449,16,15,28947,19320],"class_list":{"0":"post-86425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-garden","11":"tag-hacks","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-native-lawn-gem","14":"tag-reddit","15":"tag-reddit-gem","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-tiktok","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-waste-less","21":"tag-yahoo-life"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114475983377938687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}