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anyone have trouble with black snakes in he workshop? Im not afraid of them, i just dont like being surprised! I chased one out the door and into the woods about 150 feet away, do you think he will come back? I just dont want a bunch of baby snakes .....

john
 
I know there are good snakes, i.e. black snakes, king snakes, that can take care of other pests, like mice and other snakes, but I guess in my mind, the only good snake is a dead one. That said, it a black snakes takes cares of the mice population, I might be less tolerant of them. :)
 
Get an occasional black snake in the shop. I just leave them alone. They will go away in a day or two.

I put rat and mouse bait out in the acreage buildings every fall to reduce the number of nests in tool box drawers and in machines.
 
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T-Mo":4ozvis2x said:
I know there are good snakes, i.e. black snakes, king snakes, that can take care of other pests, like mice and other snakes, but I guess in my mind, the only good snake is a dead one. That said, it a black snakes takes cares of the mice population, I might be less tolerant of them. :)
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I hope you mean MORE tolerant. :D
 
Don McCombs":tognmnbq said:
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T-Mo":tognmnbq said:
I know there are good snakes, i.e. black snakes, king snakes, that can take care of other pests, like mice and other snakes, but I guess in my mind, the only good snake is a dead one. That said, it a black snakes takes cares of the mice population, I might be less tolerant of them. :)
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I hope you mean MORE tolerant. :D
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Yeah, that. :surrender:
 
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Got this bad boy awhile back. Cottonmouth. No backup in these ole boys. I got bit by a copperhead back when I was six. Waged war on all snakes for years after that. I've mellowed since then and let the nonpoisonous ones go.
 
T - mays , you got that right . cottonmouths do not have a reverse gear , they are aggressive . I've had my share of encounters . when the kids were still here , i dispatched a record breaking copperhead , drought brought him to a leaking faucet one too many times . coppersmythe..............................
 
I kill every copperhead I see, dont need pets or livestock being bitten, but the black snakes eat copperheads so I love them! I enjoy snakes as long as they are not poisonous. we have found a few beautiful rat snakes here
 
I hate snakes. When logging firewood with 15k loaded in the truck I would catch snakes in the road sunning themselves. If I ran them over they lived. If I locked up the dual wheels over them their road pizza and crow food.
 
I went deer hunting several years ago the week after Christmas in pinehurst, NC with a friend. The temperature got up to 70 degrees for 2 days and I was driving one afternoon to pick up a guy and this rattler was laying in the road getting sun. He was about 8” longer than what you see here. I blew that much off with 3 1/2” buckshot from 8’ away. The guy I went to pick up walked up and took a stick and laid it in the back of the truck. The next day I ask a guy if he would cut the rattler off so I could have it. He said get the whole snake and I’ll skin it for you. 26 hours after killing it I put a glove on and picked it up by the tail, it curled up, I dropped it and took off running. I can’t stand snakes. He and another guy were holding each end of the snake while he cut it and it was just a squirming. It had 11 rattles on it at the time. 2 have fallen off over the years from people touching it.
 

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Oh the joys of living in Michigan. I haven't seen any snakes other than small garters in about 25 years. I grew up next to a wetland and I'd find blue racers in the yard once in a while. Michigan has about 17 species of snakes, but I have never seen any but the two mentioned in the wild.
 
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