Posted on 08/22/2010 4:13:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek
Unlike other family members, 7-year-old Logan Coleman doesn’t have an aversion to snakes.
Clutching a handful of the plastic toy reptiles, he says his favorite is the venomous African black mamba.
He likes rattlesnakes, too, he said. Except for the one that bit him Wednesday in his Spring Arbor Township backyard in a rare encounter with Michigan’s only venomous snake.
“Logan screamed and said, ‘Mom, you have to come see what bit me,’ ” his mother, Kimberly Coleman, recalled Friday while standing near the family’s swing set where they found the snake coiled in the grass.
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Read it also,down here I figure the only real protected species is your family and such.
http://www.rattlesnakerodeo.com/
Glad the boy is alright.
Did anyone suggest the boy would make a fine preacher?
:P
Snake handlers baffle me. I figure that my faith is strong enough to know that the snake won’t bite me if I don’t try to dance with it.
I grew up in the area and spent a LOT of time at Lime lake as a teenager and young adult. I’ve only ever seen one massasauga rattler and I wasn’t much older than this kid at the time.
Pigs eat snakes. If you have a poisonous snake infestation, get a pet pig.
I don’t have any issues with snakes but I’m not going to accept venomous ones in my yard. My dogs kill their fair share of garter snakes but I don’t want them tangling with a rattler.
Have’nt seen many down here,I know they’re here killed two 5ft. cottonmouths in the bottom about 2 months ago.Reckon it’s so hot (100/110 heat indexes)they’re staying where it’s cool.I’ll just let them have their area , if they’ll stay out of mine.Killed 2 timber rattlers in the eggroom at the chicken houses where there’s A/C.Guess momma drove them off.
Florida has an assortment of poisonous snakes. Usually they are not often sighted. We have Black snakes, corn snakes, rat snakes and garden snakes in and around the house. I see them when I do the weed pulling and when I’m stupid enough to leave a cast net by the garage door. Ever try to get a snake out of a cast net? Whenever there is a rattler in the neighborhood, the neighbors usually tell you how they killed it and buried it. Haven’t found many nature lovers around that ignore the rattlers or any of the other poisonous snakes. Not only pigs like them, the gators do too, which means some of the rattlers are tossed into the canal for disposal. ;o)
Not much venomous up here aside from the massasauga but the water snakes can be pretty aggressive and leave a nasty infected bite. The dogs had a little snapping turtle cornered in the yard a few weeks back.
I always brake and turn front wheel slightly as I run over them. Very effective manover.
I camp and hike -- four snakes ain't bad.
When a friend of mine was a teenager, he and some other guys were playing catch with a copperhead and it bit him on the arm. His arm swelled to the size of his thigh.
I had a cotton mouth up in the dozer with me when it got stuck a couple of weeks ago. Got off, he stayed, got a shovel and he is in pieces.
A friend reminded me that the air temp is so hot that pit vipers, being heat signature seekers, have trouble “seeing” us this time of year.
Protected species my butt.
Snappin turtles will put a hurt on you.
/johnny
Makes sense what your friend says.
The only good cottonmouth(if he’s close)is a dead one.
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