Well I don't know if my cats are scared of cucumbers. Notice the plural, I now have six cats from 2 liters.

Anyhow I can assure you that they are not afraid of snakes. The matriarch of the clan killed a four foot black snake a few days ago and drug it into the shop. They gnawed off the head but ignored the rest of the body until it bloated up and started stinking before I hauled it off to the ditch yesterday.

"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil"

-- Sheikh Zaki Yamani