Be careful folks when out and about
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God I hate snakes. I've only seen one in the last 20 years. I had a traumatic encounter when I was about 7, I stepped over a coiled ground rattler (I jumped straight up about 3 ft & then over about 3 feet. How I jumped over while in the air I'll never know). About 5 years later I was going under a barbed wire fence & got to look one right in the face. That was a learning experience....Do NOT STAND UP when your under a barbed wire fence!!!. So every day without seeing a snake is a Good Day!
St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of Alaska.
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My wife loves snakes. She especially likes chasing me with hognose snakes.
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Yuck.
We are really close to a big reptile place.
They have a lot of snakes, alligators, lizards, and other interesting stuff.
We will NOT be going.
They have a lot of snakes, alligators, lizards, and other interesting stuff.
We will NOT be going.
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We have timber rattlers around here in the warmer months and I've had a number of encounters with them, what I don't like is when they don't have rattles and I've seen them and yelled at them for not warning me, interestingly one time a hen wild turkey warned me and I thanked her. The scariest encounters have come from when I was working on vehicles and seen rattlers coiled up less than than three feet away, one time I was working on the engine of our pickup, standing on an upside down 5 gallon pickle bucket and when I went to step down there was a coiled snake 6 feet behind. We also have bull snakes around that have the same patterns as rattlers, so we have to look good at their heads and tails as they can fool you by rattling dry leaves, their heads are much narrower, even on the large 5 foot + ones. My closest calls were when I've reached for garden hoses and one time a sweeper handle on our deck. It may sound bad but as the days get warmer, I tend to increase my awareness considerably. The only time I've heard of someone being bitten was when a neighbor shot a rattlesnake and went to pick up what he thought was a dead snake, very bad thinking because they have a bite instinct even having their heads nearly cut off. So, yeah, if you live in snake country, watch where you step, considering that snakes often blend in, in trashy ground. I have a friend that has stepped on a rattler and did an awesome leap to keep from being bit, also one time my neighbors wife went to pick up a garden hose on a pile of old feed sacks and grabbed a rattler, she avoided the fangs by quickly throwing the snake away, her husband told me he didn't know what to hit due to her screams.
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Had this dude (Northern Black Racer) go right past me a couple of weeks ago and he just completely ignored me. He was heading straight towards the camp so I shooed him away with a machete but he just went around me. So I just let him go where he wanted.
He was about 7' long - I couldn't get all of him in the picture.
He was about 7' long - I couldn't get all of him in the picture.
Seems to be alot this year
That was one of the good things about living in the far north.. I would rarely run across more than 1 garter snake a summer.. Bears were another matter..
Funny... I knew a preacher from the Black Hills that would live trap rattle snakes.. He would sell them to the local tourist reptile attraction.. We always ask him if he put the snakes to work on Sundays before selling them on Monday.... He thought it was a funny joke also...
Funny... I knew a preacher from the Black Hills that would live trap rattle snakes.. He would sell them to the local tourist reptile attraction.. We always ask him if he put the snakes to work on Sundays before selling them on Monday.... He thought it was a funny joke also...
I was surprised i didn't see a snake yesterday. The creek i was in has a large population of cottonmouths. I'm always on high alert at that place and carry a staff.
I don't have a fear of snakes, have handled them but... they stink!! To me anyway, so do lizards! Don't want that scent on my hands.
I don't have a fear of snakes, have handled them but... they stink!! To me anyway, so do lizards! Don't want that scent on my hands.
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Went to visit son 2 and the 3 granddaughters today. Went on a golf card ride, Saw 2 deer at a distance and one rabbit that was just around 6 feet away from us that just sat there eating his grass.
Haven't seen but two so far this year that were bad I raised up a tarp and a small Copperhead was inside it. he was close so I dispatched him. The other was a Copperhead crossing the road way out in timber so I just slowed down a little and let it go on.
Hard to mistake those Hershey's kisses on them.
Hard to mistake those Hershey's kisses on them.
MANY many many snakes this year!! I'm trying to avoid A REPEAT!!
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Haven't seen any rattlesnakes here around the house yet, but everytime we go to town we see 4 or 5 rattlers on the road. When the grass drys out is when we start getting snakes around the house.
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There’s a particular place my offspring used to walk around sunset time, they’d frequently see a copperhead or two across or near the path. They’d also see a 
digging a spot or covering it up.
digging a spot or covering it up.
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Knock on wood we haven't seen any snakes this year. Many moons ago I had a similar experience to Tenngrizz. We were hiking in the mountains early in the morning. We were in a small group going single file down the trail. The guy in front of me stepped over it. Then I stepped over it, and the guy behind me jumped back and said "WHOA". There was a 4' rattle snake stretched across the trail. Nobody got hurt. It just slithered off like we woke him up.
I don't care for snakes. I leave them alone, and hopefully, they leave me alone.
I don't care for snakes. I leave them alone, and hopefully, they leave me alone.
Rolling over them sometimes doesn't do the trick. You have to remember to lock up the brakes and slide over them.Do you have to change lanes a lot to run over all of them?
I would.
