Travlr
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I usually save snakes I find and throw them across a neighbor's fence. Anyone want to give me their address?
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CowboyRam
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No way am I going to hold one of those nope ropes.
I thought that looked like a copperhead but I have never seen one that big and didn't know they could get that big. I bet if that one bit someone. They wouldn't live long. It would have to deliver a lot of venom when it bites. Is it common for copper heads to get that big in Kansas ?
Mark Reynolds
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@SBMF, we all need to take a look at your quote with each of your posts here: "Never fear them, but always respect them" The snakes, (I'm including the copperheads and timber rattlers here) actually do a lot of benefit for us by controlling the mice and other small critters (grasshoppers as well) much better than we ever could with our pesticides on a long term (forever) basis. They can and do cause damage, but virtually everything does. Its when things get out of balance that true problems arise. Thai is the case with the pythons. I have no love for them and every dead one in Florida I hear of is a good thing in my book.
The ones I see generally aren't that big. Or at least they don't seem to be that big because I usually only see them in the lake. Here's a better view:
Well, it was at a frat party. Alcohol may have been involved. Guy that owned her (her name was Phyllis) said she tried to bite him a few weeks later and he donated her to the Sedgwick County Zoo.
SBMF 2015
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That's in reference to cattle.
Dave
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It is funny to listen to the reaction when talking about snakes from the city people living in Baker. Drive just about any direction out of town a short distance and you can find rattle snakes. But they come unglued when we mention that about once a year we will kill one in our yard.
Mark Reynolds
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Understood, but it works for snakes and a whole lot of other things as well.
CowboyRam
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When dad worked at the Warren Livestock he had a horse that would get bit by a rattler every spring. The horse could hardly breath, but he would recover.
I am good with the mice and rat eaters. They have helped me a lot in the barn as the mice will not go away. Mostly the rat snakes, black racers and Hog Nose. The only thing I do not care about the Hog Nose is they eat the toads. Wish they would not do that. But I don't let the copperheads stick around. Wish they would stay elsewhere. Always biting my dogs, and then they do not feel good. Always give them a shot of Penicillin to get it in their system, then start them on Clindamycin capsule stuck inside a hot dog twice a day for a week. Clindamycin is good for deep wounds that oxygen cannot reach.
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coachg
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I would have chose a 2 or 3 iron ; longer shaft !
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coachg
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Non venomous get a free pass ; with grandkids around ; especially 2 under 3 years old I'm killing all rattlers And copperheads .
With grandkids around, I get that. I rarely kill any snake unless it enters our domain. Then, all bets are off! We used to have a garage cat that was a prolific snake hunter. I don't know what possessed her, but she'd kill venomous & nonvenomous snakes. Which she subsequently brought back to the garage to show off, proceed to eat it, and hark it up a few hours later.
I haven't ever seen a copper head that big before. It does look like it might have swallowed some mice or something that it hadn't digested yet. Those darn copper heads are really camouflaged good.
You see them swimming in the lake ? Have only seen water moccasins swimming in water. We have water moccasins, rattlesnakes some timber rattlesnakes, copper heads, black snakes, grass snakes and I guess that's it.
Oh yeah! We have a watershed lake that's fully stocked. Fishing from the bank is when we usually see them. And for those brave enough to fish from the overflow, they're all over.
cattlecreek
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Got bit by a diamondback in the hallway while going to bed one night. It was one of those "hold my beer moments". I used to be good at catching them, but was rusty that night Spent the night in the Stephenville TX Hospital
Dave
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Well my theory that they all got burned up in the fire proved to be wrong. I decided to drive up the road to see if my friend was spending the weekend at his cabin. Didn't get to the bridge in my driveway (less than 200 yards from the house) there was a rattler. 6 rattles and a button. Just shy of the friends cabin I kill a little youngster. About 18 inches with 2 rattles. He wasn't there. On my way home I killed one with 6 rattles a little over a mile upstream from the house. No big ones and these 3 aren't going to get any bigger. First rattlers I have seen this year.
