snakes

[torchred89]

In 1985 I had To go to The Middle East. I had a party before I left and somebody was lifting my weights and hit the dry wall and put a hole in it. When I got home a month later there was a 5 ft snake skin on the floor next to my bed. I looked under the bed in the closet nothing so I went to bed.

[Tass13]

I have to agree with the "No mice, No snakes" rule indoors. I have a kennel full of bird dogs and If I do by chance run into one outdoors, I let the ones that flee LIVE, if anything wants to hold their ground, I follow the advice of the "Red Queen" .... "OFF With Their Heads!!!"

[Eugene]

Shortly after purchasing the acreage, weeds taller than the pickup, son and I managed to get the pickup jammed and sort of stuck in the woods.

At home, next day, when I opened the pickup door a green snake about 1 1/2 foot long crawled out of the truck.

[Lt.Mike]

Guard snake that keeps an eye on my barn. It rattles to let you know it is serious.



However, the one in the bottom photo really keeps the place safe.

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That’s a big copperhead. Though their venom isn’t the strongest out there you don’t want to risk a bite. If you have kids or pets around I’d relocate him to the woods somewhere down the road. Out of the “black snakes “ it’s a king snake that will eat other snakes. Pine and bull snakes like that one found under the trucks hood will too. Black rat snakes will clean out mice and rats and are your best friend in a barn.
Ever notice them up in the rafters? They are climbers and do so to eat eggs and baby birds. Got a pigeon problem in your barn? Put a black rat in there and you won’t for long .
The green snake you found in your truck is about the most inoffensive harmless snake you’ll find and feed primary on insects. Rattlers and copperheads though dangerous I’d prefer to see relocated as they do have their place in nature.
On cottonmouths, your right, they don’t back off for anything. Everything else will turn and leave more often than before you’ll ever know they were there. Rat snakes will sometimes hold their ground but are so benificial your best to leave them be.
On rainy nights down south cottonmouths are everywhere.
If you couldn’t guess by now I like snakes and sometimes go looking for them. Driving in South Georgia one rainy night I came across some two dozen snakes. Different kinds but easily more than half were cottonmouths. I learned one thing over there years, you don’t walk in the grass on a rainy night without being damned careful there. They don’t flee and are too easy to step on. Like a living landmine. If bitten tissue distruction from their venom is severe.
I’d prefer relocating any other snake you don’t want around but if you chose to dispatch a cottonmouth I’d understand.
They are dangerous.

[coppersmythe]

Guard snake that keeps an eye on my barn. It rattles to let you know it is serious.



However, the one in the bottom photo really keeps the place safe.

20170528_102722 (Medium).jpg

That’s a big copperhead. Though their venom isn’t the strongest out there you don’t want to risk a bite. If you have kids or pets around I’d relocate him to the woods somewhere down the road. Out of the “black snakes “ it’s a king snake that will eat other snakes. Pine and bull snakes like that one found under the trucks hood will too. Black rat snakes will clean out mice and rats and are your best friend in a barn.
Ever notice them up in the rafters? They are climbers and do so to eat eggs and baby birds. Got a pigeon problem in your barn? Put a black rat in there and you won’t for long .
The green snake you found in your truck is about the most inoffensive harmless snake you’ll find and feed primary on insects. Rattlers and copperheads though dangerous I’d prefer to see relocated as they do have their place in nature.
On cottonmouths, your right, they don’t back off for anything. Everything else will turn and leave more often than before you’ll ever know they were there. Rat snakes will sometimes hold their ground but are so benificial your best to leave them be.
On rainy nights down south cottonmouths are everywhere.
If you couldn’t guess by now I like snakes and sometimes go looking for them. Driving in South Georgia one rainy night I came across some two dozen snakes. Different kinds but easily more than half were cottonmouths. I learned one thing over there years, you don’t walk in the grass on a rainy night without being damned careful there. They don’t flee and are too easy to step on. Like a living landmine. If bitten tissue distruction from their venom is severe.
I’d prefer relocating any other snake you don’t want around but if you chose to dispatch a cottonmouth I’d understand.
They are dangerous.

i agree with what lt. mike has said . i do not dispatch any beneficial snakes , i understand the difference, but i will never put the safety of snakes ahead of people ..........coppersmythe.................................PS: but , DO YOUR HOMEWORK ! all snakes are not created equall......................................i have given "quarter " to cottonmouths in the atchafalaya basin ..........................i'm a guest.

[Crimson Tim]

I was not pleased to find this genuine red-after-yellow coral snake IN THE STALL *WITH* my little unicorn a couple years back.

Coral snake photo

Unicorn

Indra was fine. She was about 3 at the time.
Her sister would have pounded the snake to dust. Indra, however, probably would have kept it as a pet.
(She keeps her horn tucked safely under her pillow when not in use.)

[Indy4570]

I mowed a copperhead the other day, the push mower won the contest. coulda had snake burger for lunch that day

[John P]

The only venomous snake's here in Ontario left are the Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake and they are only found in some parts of Ontario.The area were i live here was a hot bed for rattlesnake's years ago due to being close to the rocky area's of the Niagara Escarpment wich cuts thru this area of Ontario and because of that we have a area not far from here known as "Rattlesnake Point"

[TraumaOne]

The only venomous snake's here in Ontario left are the Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake and they are only found in some parts of Ontario.The area were i live here was a hot bed for rattlesnake's years ago due to being close to the rocky area's of the Niagara Escarpment wich cuts thru this area of Ontario and because of that we have a area not far from here known as "Rattlesnake Point"

Same here in Michigan, the Massasauga is our only rattler and they are found but not often. From what I've heard they are a fat lazy snake that will only bite if provoked.