Posted on 04/29/2016 6:59:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In before the pictures of wallets and hat bands.
What could possibly go wrong?
It’s snake season. I killed on just yesterday. Last summer, it was one every other day or so.
When CT went fear-berserk and annihilated their native rattler population, Lyme was endemic to just that area.
With no more snakes, the Lyme vectors flourished.
Now, we have Lyme *everywhere*.
How’d that work out for us?
Same ol’ same ol’.
1) It is foolish to introduce/reintroduce dangerous animals to an area where they have never been, or have been and have died off.
2) 1,000,000 rattle snakes aren’t worth 1 human life.
3) If you want to control rodents, there are numerous non-venomous snakes you could introduce.
4) I’m way past sick of “scientists” playing God. If God wanted Timber Rattlers on that island, He’d have put them there.
The wigglin’ rattlers are up here. Ya gotta be on the look out for ‘em when outside at all times now.
Perhaps a better location would be Back Bay.
Mass hole government program? What ever could go wrong, old sport?
Prolly taste like chicken.
Timber rattlesnakes are magnificent beasts, and yet they've almost been wiped out by the pathetic "do-gooders" frightened of their own shadow. This tiny population on this island may actually conserve this species. Maybe not. Frankly, I think it's too late for the timber rattlesnake. But at least this a logical, and somewhat practical attempt, to keep the species alive in the wild. I support this effort.
If you don’t have rattlers in Massachusetts just what the heck do you use for chili meat?
Q from a Texan....
I don’t think Chili has been discovered in Massachusetts yet.
Some kid or fisherman will get bitten even though they said before there's no record of anyone getting bitten. I don't believe it. There is a reason they have been killed off. Good riddance.
Hawks, eagles, falcons, owls and other predators can control the rodent population quite nicely if they would introduce those instead.
My MIL had a lot of rattlers on her place and kept the rattles from each one, that is what my grandson wanted after she died.
Why don’t they introduce them in an area far, far away from people? When the first child is hurt by one of these, I hope the State is sued into oblivion.
There are probably 100 million timber rattlers in Texas. Big ones, chili for eight.
That’s the difference between Texas and Mass. They regard them with extreme fear, we regard them as chili makins.
Taste like chicken. Or Gator. Good eatin’.
“Go the other way, snakes do not attack people, that’s all a myth,” said Perrotti.
I stopped reading there.... I have personally had water mocassins see me from the other side of a creek then swim across to pursue me....there are some very agressive snakes.
That stated, most try to avoid people....even large timber rattlers.....
But why bring in any poisonous snakes? Get rid of all of them.....help populate with rat snakes if there is a rodent problem....
I wouldn’t know. The vendors that sell fried rattlesnake at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, TX would know. Snakes...ick. The only good snake is a dead snake.
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