And here I assumed you'd use it to beat the snake.
Learn something new everyday!! :-)
I had horses when I was a kid, but I never knew about this trick until the Vet came to the farm in the 80’s to tube worm them. He saw that they had a farm pond in their pasture. Copperheads hang out around water. He asked, “do you have a Georgia credit card?” I asked what that was. He said it was a siphoning hose. 🙄 He told us what to do and how to make one. I made several.
The snake bite to the nose is why horses are instinctively afraid of snakes. They know it’s a death sentence.