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To: pax_et_bonum

omniverous would be a better answer but a hog will eat nothing that would harm him. They will eat snakes but not a cotton mouth.


51 posted on 01/18/2005 9:20:21 AM PST by eastforker (Ask me about a free satellite TV system!)
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To: eastforker

You know, I have heard that about pigs; they know which snakes to avoid, like as you mentioned, cottonmouths.

However, out in these here parts (the wide prairies of Nebraska), they are known to chow down rattlesnakes.

My knowledge of snakery is chaotic and incomplete; could it be that the poison of cottonmouths is more lethal than the venom of rattlesnakes, and the pigs know it?


65 posted on 01/18/2005 12:06:43 PM PST by franksolich (a fronte praecipitum, a tergo lupus)
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To: eastforker
"They will eat snakes but not a cotton mouth."

They'll eat rattlesnakes.

68 posted on 01/18/2005 12:21:23 PM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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