Posted on 07/31/2017 6:04:35 AM PDT by simpson96
LEQUIRE, Okla. -- One Oklahoma resident is getting much praise after she killed several copperhead snakes by herself.
On Friday, Susan Thompson was visiting her neighbor, Mrs. Newby, when she discovered that the 72-year-old had taken care of 11 copperhead snakes that she found under her home in Lequire, Oklahoma.
Thompson said Newby had used a shotgun, a shovel and a rake to get rid of the snakes.
She posted a photo to her Facebook page with the caption, "Mrs Newby killed 11 copperheads last night at her house! She's a snake killer if you need help call her! She is 72 years old!"
Facebook users were full of praise for Thompson's neighbor. One woman even commented, "I love Mrs. Newby. Does she need more shells?"
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Shoot, shovel and shoosh!!! Words to live by.
I don't know how. Explain how she utilized a garden to kill snakes!
Copperhead snakes under your house and tornados coming down from the sky. Oh yeah, I want to live in Oklahoma.....NOT!
Large full grown copperheads tend to not be as aggressive but smaller ones will strike unprovoked and even come after you.
They are the only snake I kill here in Missouri.
When I bushhog my horse pastures, I can see all the other snakes move out, usually well before I get to them.
Invariably there will be a Copperhead or two that will not move...and I can watch them turn and face the oncoming tractor.
I have observed them strike at the tires, before the bushhog rendered them into "mechanically separated" snake meat.
I smile and continue on.
I’ll have to check out Snake Be Gone. Always a good idea to discourage them from living near you!
Lots of old timers will disagree with you on that. They hated copperheads the most.
Hubby just killed a copperhead that was in our driveway, recently, with a flat shovel. We keep that shovel in the breezeway....just in case.
Copper heads have freeze instinct when threatened which is mistaken for aggressiveness.
Every one I have dealt with over a period of 50 years or so was killed by me because it was aggressive....
The lady in the picture is showing that the copperhead was raising off the ground.
This is similar to the one I shot in my North Carolina front yard when my daughters were small.
Shotgun took the head clean off.
So what else would a father do but put it in the driveway and pour salt on it so his daughters could watch the headless body wiggle around.
I think Copperheads must be everywhere.....we have our share in Western North Carolina.....
She tells the story of when her brother and her and their grandpa were in the living room watching TV one night and a 6 foot cottonmouth fell on the floor from the fireplace chimney onto the floor. She and her brother climbed up on the back of the couch screaming, while her grandpa casually stepped on the snake, grabbed it behind the head and took it outside and killed it with a shovel. They were back to watching their TV program in no time.
Apparently the snake had slithered up one of the big oak trees hanging over the house and just happened to fall out of it, right down the chimney.
Great story she still tells today 60 years later.
Repeated the snake eradication in Texas Condo front patio to a raised an hissing rattle snake.
Unfortunately the rattle got hit with a pellet so I didn’t take it. Oh, well. I’ve had other rattles. Grand kids think they are cool.
So you don’t have to click on this site:
“Unbeknownst to most residents of the Washington area, the region’s only venomous snake is multiplying this month (September).”
Wrong again, Compost. There are plenty of venomous two-legged reptiles within the Beltway and slithering about the surrounding areas.
"Lawd ha' mercy!"
I live in the north east in a large metro area. I went to brush debris out from under my daffodils, and a 7 foot black snake slithered out. Yuck. They're everywhere.
Cottonmouths will certainly attack during mating season. Early Spring in Arkansas.
Sorry, garden hoe.
I misspelled: it was garden hoe.
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