Posted on 03/20/2019 1:43:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
Edited on 03/20/2019 3:30:42 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Albany, Texas
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Kill it with fire!!!
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They do..... Tasty so they claim
Crawl space. Way better than building on a slab.
UGH! That pic brings back memories. One day ... years ago ... a friend and I went hunting on the outskirts of Sherman, TX. Nothing targeted in particular ... squirrels, birds, fish, tin cans, etc. When we decided we’d had enough, we started trekking back to the car. My friend walked over a huge pile of rusty old metal slabs, but I stopped dead in my tracks at the sight directly in front of me and yelled at my friend to stop. About 4 feet directly in front of me, under the first sheet of old rusty metal, was a diamondback ... coiled, rattling and ready to strike.
I guess all his friends heard the commotion and they started rattling too. I told my friend not to move and that he was on a rattlesnake den. Before I knew it, he came flying right at me off of the pile and knocked me back a couple of feet ... right next to another slithery beast and he began firing. My .410 was empty and as I fumbled for shells, I told my buddy that there was one by my foot. “There’s one by mine too!” he yelled.
After finally getting some shells into my shotgun, I took out the one right next to me and unloaded on the next 2 I saw. The rattling was deafening ... must’ve been quite a few around us. So we kept firing. Not sure how many we killed before turning around and running off. I made sure to get the first one I saw though ... the one that started everything in the first place.
Fortunately, neither of us got any bites. But that sure was a dang scary moment!
I was gonna say...;)
Snake wrangler. Now, there’s a job I want! /s
I found a baby rattler by the sidewalk going up to the front door last month. My first thought was that was a big white worm. Then it turned over. It had Dian,one head and diamonds on its back.
Well at least he won’t have ‘Rats.
Good ol’ fiddleback, no doubt. Had a patient once who had a fiddleback bite, but thought it was some sort of abcess. Went to the local ER for an unrelated condition, and asked the doc to lance the “abcess” under her arm, because it was so painful. Well, the idiot complied. Patient ended up on a ventilator with septic shock. Landing a fiddleback spider bite spreads the toxin throughout the body. Both my husband and I have had them, with resulting very minor tissue damage; they leave a little crater, since they’re destructive to the flesh.
There’s plenty more where they came from. Hope it was some tenderfoot New Wanker’s house.
I had a cat being home a rattler once. It was small but it had fangs. Guess my cat was quicker. I wouldn’t bet against the racoon either.
Ditto all that..!!
Indigo might work better....
I also put the period in front of the 45.
Shudders... you would have had to fumigate and then after you’d never be sure they were all gone. Yeah, I’d pass, too.
I saw a video of the snakes under the house- it’s either a mobile home or a modular home. Very common around here (Albany is about 30 miles from my town).
A cat & a skunk tussled under my house one New Year’s Eve. The skunk won, & the party ended way too early.
Yep. Tossing a handful of mothballs under the house & up in the attic is a pretty good way to get rid of snakes & rodents.
Oh we have some really beautiful modular homes out here in CA. places like Acton where they have acreage, I totally forgot about modular homes, Silvercrest makes a gorgeous modular home with massive amounts of square footage they are NOT inexpensive as many would assume!!!
OMG just gross, and SCARY!!!!!
I’m sure it’ll be tons of fun for him when the vermin squad is no longer there to deal with the infestation.
/been through a rat and mouse plague because neighbors massacred the local snakes. not fun.
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