Snakes

#28
#28
kiddiedoc said:
I've learned to recognize and relocate a few common harmless snakes. So far, I've only come across Corn and Dekay species here.
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Dekay are beautiful snakes. King snakes (red on black) imo are the best looking
 
#31
#31
We were hiking around Norris 2 weeks ago when this black snake climbed up the rock wall we were sitting on. We left the area. I hate snakes. 20200410_160434.jpg

Edit: you did the right thing Freak
 
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#35
my snake story involves my sons. One afternoon after they got off the school bus and walking up the driveway, the youngest who is always more observant and doesn't get in near the rush, saw the snake on the side of the driveway that his big brother had just blasted right past without even noticing it.
So he gets big brothers attention who then comes back to check it out. Did I mention that big brother is more of an outdoors kind of guy?
Since he couldn't leave well enough alone, he decided to do something that he must have read somewhere. He finds a forked stick and traps the snake by putting the fork right behind the snakes head.
Shortly after this, our neighbor comes out to get his mail and talks with them. So he finds out that my son has a snake pinned down and then asks the proverbial obvious question, "what you gonna do now"?
Since my son hadn't thought that far ahead, the neighbor came to the "rescue". The neighbor took control of the forked stick and gave my son a pocket knife to cut off the snakes head which he did.
So I am at work and they call me explaining what happened and then text me a picture....turned out to be a copperhead about 3 feet long.
I about crapped my pants.
 
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#38
#38
Snakes never have bothered me. They handle them in some churches where I'm from😂. Have a good friend who catches them for a church, rattlesnakes and copperhead. Always take my kids to see them when we visit ky😄
 
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#39
Thunder Good-Oil said:
Do they also weed eat and trim the shrubs?
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I wish....it was actually kind of neat. The snake was about 3 feet long and I saw it sticking its head out of a bush in my flower bed. I went over to see it and it stared at me for a second then slithered off into the neighbor's yard. They look mean but it wanted nothing to do with me at all.
 
#42
#42
I've always been "meh" about snakes. If they don't bother (attack) me, I leave them alone. Except for rattlesnakes on my yard. They gotta go!

The wife, however is completely different. She really likes them. When we met, she showed me the rattlesnake skins that she had skinned and treated and pinned on boards or kept carefully rolled up in plastic bags for future reference. My kinda gal!

We once went on our daily walk and, not long after we started, there was a HUGE gopher snake dead in the road. She was so concerned that someone else would take it before we got back, she hid it under some brush at the side of the road. That one still decorates the wall in my brewery.

All y'all nancy boys, leave them serpents be!
 
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#48
I was raking the thatch out of my back yard in NC and raked a small black racer onto my foot. I let it slither off. Sure enough, ten minutes later the same thing happened and I had another adrenaline spike. On the third occurrence, I screamed, "Alright you little black m...........g b.....d, I'm going to get my axe and chop off your g.....n head!!!".

At that point, the folks next door having a back yard party became nervous.
 
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#49
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Meh, snakes are mostly harmless. Even venomous ones. You leave them alone, they’ll leave you alone. They control rodent populations. I’ve stepped over rattlesnakes and copperheads doing hikes and nothing happened. Worked and handled non-venomous and venomous snakes For over 30 years. Worked at 5 different zoos and aquariums.
 
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