Take a hoe to it and end it right there. Rattlesnakes average 10 live births at a time. That one baby he found where his kids play has a mama and a papa and a bunch of siblings who are too young to have rattles to warn him and his kids.
Years ago, a neighbor shot one and was hit in the face with flying things. Turns out it was giving birth to 12 babies (that he found). He killed them and tossed them in his truck and brought them over to show us.
Kill ‘em. Each and every one. Every time you find one. Hoe. Shot gun. .22 snake shot. Whatever it takes.
If it were me, I’d collect all the rattlesnakes I could capture and drop them off in Austin. Right in front of city hall.
Another reason I will NEVER live in the South. Snakes, bugs the size of your hand and ‘gators!
*SHUDDER*
Yes, Wisconsin has Rattlers, Timber rattlesnake and the Eastern Massasauga (mas-a-sa-gwa) rattlesnake...but not in great numbers.
I’ll just stay here and battle Liberals, LOL!
Snake supremacists?
“They will go elsewhere”
Um, his animals and children are in danger, and he is more concerned about the welfare of the rattle snakes. Pure idiocy
I never have thought too much about or been too afraid of snakes. But yesterday around lunch time my 88 y.o. mom was feeding her cats outside and heard a noise like an air hose leak. She went poking around to see what it was and was bitten on the ankle by a timber rattler. She is in ICU. She’s doing really well - in a lot of pain but no necrosis - just bruising and swelling. We’re going on a search and destroy mission. The snake had ten rattlers.
The rattlesnakes around here leave you alone if you leave them alone.
Snakes are victims? The only good snake is a dead one to me.
It is Texas brush country and it is full of rattlers. Everything in that part of the country and more so the further South and West you go either sticks, stinks or stings.
About 40 years ago, I walked out to my step-dad’s (a Polish man who’d spent the war in Stalag 13 near Nuremberg) back yard for a visit. I saw him furiously hacking the ground with a hoe. When I asked what he was doing, he replied, “Ah’m killin sneck”! I reminded him that the garter snake he’d just hacked to pieces was beneficial, he replied, “Ah tells you, Frahnk, sneck eez sneck”!
Snake b Gon works well, too. And a 410 shotgun.
They are terrible in Texas.
You cannot let pets outside.
They are not bad when it’s 100 plus outside, but let it cool down to the 80’s then look out.
Stay in California. You will be safer.
I don’t see that many here in the Florida Panhandle. I stay out of the bushes during the Summer.
Around 15 years ago I killed an Eastern Diamondback which was just under 7 feet. Very heavy bodied too.
When it comes to snakes I think it was “the Fat Broad” in B.C. cartoon strips that had it right.
Golly, it counldn’t be the fact their homes are on what was farm land until very recently.
My son has killed 28 rattlesnakes on his porch this year, that doesn’t count those in the yard and around the perimeter. His house is miles from any other and the only water source for miles. His dog used to kill them but has been bitten twice and now steers clear of them.
Timber rattlers are a protected species in Texas.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/timberrattlesnake/
Declare the whole area a snake sanctuary.
Rattlers go where the food source is. If you have rats, field mice and rabbits in abundance you are going to have rattlesnakes.
Get King snakes. And lots of them.
There really is such a guy, although he doesn't stomp rattlesnakes on purpose. He actually stepped on a huge one - fatter than your leg - while walking in flip-flops at the Grand Canyon.
Rattlesnake Matt jumped off quickly and the snake didn't bite him - he is legend ever since.
