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Snake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just out taking care of my garden, went to turn on the garden hose, and right there wrapped around the hose was about a 14" copperhead. Lucky for me I saw it before he could get me.
Good thing is its dead now!
Good thing is its dead now!
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When reaching for your hose, be careful you don't grab your snake by accident.
Even still...a good copperhead is a dead copperhead[;)]
Two mags of 45 ACP should handle it!
Wouldn't do much for the hose though.[;)]
Copperheads tend to be pretty docile. I doubt it would have bitten you unless you actually grabbed ahold of it.
Even still...a good copperhead is a dead copperhead[;)]
Yes, copperheads are fairly docile. I usually get a few in the yard every year, and tend to them with a 4ft. frog gig
...I was reaching for the faucet handle thru a bunch of ferns yesterday, and grabbed a cleverly hidden BIG FAT toad; not sure which one of us it scared the most...[;)]
nasty little devils! hope you didn't fill the hose with holes.
No, I took care of em with a shovel.
I'm not the least bit afraid of snakes, It just caught me off gaurd. And as for agressive, this one must have seen me before I saw him cause it was ready to get me.
My biggest worry about it is my kids. We used to have a pet ball python and my kids are not afraid of snakes either. I could picture my 5yo going and trying to pick one up. After I killed it I showed it to him and told him if he saw a snake like that to get away from it.
Please return my pet snake. Thank you. [8D]
Hope you were not to atached to em
...I was reaching for the faucet handle thru a bunch of ferns yesterday, and grabbed a cleverly hidden BIG FAT toad; not sure which one of us it scared the most..
Yeah, I know a guy that did that once and ended up having to choke his
chicken! Didn't get the whole story - there were some lurid parts missing -
but that was the 'jist of it!'
... it's a damn scary world out there![:0]
It certainly seems a little snake can seperate all of the macho posting wussies around this board from poeple that don't have to kill things to feel safe. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel I had to kill a 14" copperhead to be safe.
Killing snakes is a manly thing, maybe you wouldn't know. Especially where kids are involved.
It certainly seems a little snake can seperate all of the macho posting wussies around this board from poeple that don't have to kill things to feel safe. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel I had to kill a 14" copperhead to be safe.
14" copperheads can and do grow into 30" copperheads. Snakes don't bother me much, but I commonly hqave children in the yard.
Back in 1976 I got bit by a
Cottonmouth, I never knew just
how lucky I was to still be
breathing. my whole face was
numb. I can thank my life to
a Florida Highway Trooper that
was sitting on the stateline.
I still hate snakes, but now
I bite first from now on.
How'd you get bit in the face? Were you trying to kiss it?
Wife called one day a few years ago when I was on the road, she'd gone down to the dog yard to feed them and encountered a snake. Said all was fine, she'd killed the snake. Asked for the details and she said she ran to the shed and got the ax which was used to dispatch the snake. The ax I was aware of was a splitting maul and she's kind of small framed, asked why she didn't grab the machete which was there too, would have been a lot easier for her to swing. She said the handle on it wan't long enough. When I got home, took a look, poor little grass snake was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid.
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
It certainly seems a little snake can seperate all of the macho posting wussies around this board from poeple that don't have to kill things to feel safe. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel I had to kill a 14" copperhead to be safe.
Killing snakes is a manly thing, maybe you wouldn't know. Especially where kids are involved.
The kids were my thought. personally I'm not bothered. I have gone rattle snake hunting many times. We allways caught them live and put them in sacks untill we got back to the campsite to kill em. That way we could do it so we could skin em for hat bands and such. But here around the house I'll kill everyone I see just to protect my kids.
Now we also have alot of black snakes around here. I let those alone to keep the mice and such under control.
Good snake = dead snake!
My rule is simple, see snake,, see snake die.... if the hose is in the way, buy new hose.. I have been bitten twice.. finally figured out that I did not like it, and that they have used up all their free chances..
Nuff Said from an admitted snake wussie!
you people make me sick!!!! how dare you kill an innocent snake? I believe that there should be harsh penalties for those who kill poor innocent creatures!!!!........um..... sorry about that, seems I hit my head a couple minutes ago and have had random urges to wear pink eat nothing but tofu and move to San Francisco...... ahh, there is my gun collection.... all nicely sitting there..... I'm cured for now.
We forgive you for that burst of temporary insanity!!![:D][:D][:D]
and met up with a 6' rattler (Western Diamondback) -bitten
right on the face - in 1930 - he was 15 - went to God in less
than 30 minutes.
It certainly seems a little snake can seperate all of the macho posting wussies around this board from poeple that don't have to kill things to feel safe. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel I had to kill a 14" copperhead to be safe.
HeDog...I like snakes and have owned a couple, but your comments sound pretty ignorant to me. This guy has children to worry about. Poisonous snakes have no place in an area with kids around them. Period. I've encountered MANY copperheads in the wild, along with a few Rattlesnakes and I leave them alone, but when it comes to my yard, they die. I have NUMEROUS black snakes living in my house (in the basement, walls and attic) b/c we live in a 160 year old farm house. I don't mind them one bit...but they cannot kill me or my family either.
So to echo Tiger6, here's another bonafied wussie combat vet.
In the United States, you're much more likely to be killed by a dog. Even insect bites cause more deaths than snakes. Just trying to keep things in perspective.
aggressive dogs venomous snakes ALL SPIDERS THAT ARE TOO CLOSE scorpions ants wasp and bees are to die. why because I want them too[^][:(!]
Actually that is complete nonsense and should not be perpetrated. If you have to be bitten buy a venomous snake, pick a baby. They have less venom. Everything aspect of a venomous snake bite is under the voluntary control of the snake. They are born (or hatch in the case of cobras) with the ability to make choices and they have the control necessary to implement those choics.
quote:but your comments sound pretty ignorant to me.
Interesting thing to post to a guy that has worked with snakes for the past 35 years. One does not have to kill snakes to remove them from the posibility of causing harm to children. Move them a kilometer from your home, problem solved. Rattlesnakes have been here for the last million years or so, but they are actually not really bright. They have not figured out that the neighborhood is going down hill.
quote:Originally posted by woodshermit
In the United States, you're much more likely to be killed by a dog. Even insect bites cause more deaths than snakes. Just trying to keep things in perspective.
aggressive dogs venomous snakes ALL SPIDERS THAT ARE TOO CLOSE scorpions ants wasp and bees are to die. why because I want them too[^][:(!]
See my earlier post... you evil person!!!! DARN!!! I gotta quit hitting my head like that... now I have a strange urge to watch old Barbara Streisand movies...... HELP!!
wrench
quote:actually smaller/younger snakes that are poisonous are far more dangerous than an older snake for they havent developed the ability to inject small amounts of venom they can release it all at once!!!!
Actually that is complete nonsense and should not be perpetrated. If you have to be bitten buy a venomous snake, pick a baby. They have less venom. Everything aspect of a venomous snake bite is under the voluntary control of the snake. They are born (or hatch in the case of cobras) with the ability to make choices and they have the control necessary to implement those choics.
quote:but your comments sound pretty ignorant to me.
Interesting thing to post to a guy that has worked with snakes for the past 35 years. One does not have to kill snakes to remove them from the posibility of causing harm to children. Move them a kilometer from your home, problem solved. Rattlesnakes have been here for the last million years or so, but they are actually not really bright. They have not figured out that the neighborhood is going down hill.
I know exactly what you do HeDog, but I will never allow my family to be endangered by a poisonous animal. That is the point I was making. I have literally stepped over copperheads in the wild (wihthout harming them). They are not an agressive snake...but I will not let them live anywhere near where I live. I love my family far more than any animal that has ever walked this earth. No offense intended, but until you've walked a mile in my shoes, you really ought to think about who you call a wussie.[;)][:)]
It certainly seems a little snake can seperate all of the macho posting wussies around this board from poeple that don't have to kill things to feel safe. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel I had to kill a 14" copperhead to be safe.
Well, Imagine that you had a suppressed immune system. I take meds to prevent rejection (after a heart transplant). Yes, my friend, a copperhead could and probably would be fatal to me. Imagine my kids or dogs being endangered the same way. It's a small price to pay to elimnate the snake. I don't mean to sound caustic, but please understand.[:)]
It certainly seems a little snake can seperate all of the macho posting wussies around this board from poeple that don't have to kill things to feel safe. I cannot imagine a situation where I would feel I had to kill a 14" copperhead to be safe.
"Had to kill". . .hard to say, but "expedient to kill". . .I could see that pretty easily. My mercy doesn't extend to potentially lethal venomous animals that inhabit my living space.
And speaking of hatred of snakes, that isn't exactly anything new. . .read the right way, you could consider this a biblical injunction to kill snakes:
Genesis, 3:15
quote:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Gators
Poison spiders
Sharks (Hammerhead, Bull, Tiger, Great White,)
all make my "To kill" list. Those are parts of the ecosystem we can get along without.