If they're good-looking, encourage them ...
Posted on 06/25/2019 9:33:13 AM PDT by george76
Didn’t someone die in their car when one got loose when he was transporting it a couple years ago?
At least a rattler will play defense. A cottonmouth is an asshole and will want to f*** with you.
A friend of mine killed a 9 ft Copperhead in her back yard last week. Popped him twice with her 40. I didn’t know they could get that big in Missouri.
Growing up we always found copperhead snakes in our house. Many shovels were placed inside the house.
A shovel is a good way to kill a snake. Done it a few times.
She used a 40?
I would have used a 41 or 42....whatever it took.
Sorry, just watched “Mr Mom” again last night....
“There’s a local forum where people post police calls and there’s always someone calling about snakes in their yards. I get in trouble for telling folks to buck up and kill them without bothering the cops.”
It would be a lot better to learn which are venomous and which aren’t and not molest the non-venomous ones. I very much like having non-venomous snakes around my property because thy eat all sorts of bad things, like mice and rats. Indeed, I’ve even rescued a couple that were caught in a landscaping net. I also have a great picture of a 52” long black snake that was climbing the side of my house. Aside from taking its picture, I did nothing to bother it because I wanted it to stay around.
What do you do about the local Cougars?
Really. Not exactly indigenous to PA.
That, my friend, was sarcasm.
The Mustangs keep them away.
Since they used a file photo instead of a photo of the actual snake, I suspect what she actually killed was an Eastern hognosed snake...a ‘spreading adder,’ a harmless snake that when afraid flattens out its head into a hood - which has spots on he back of the hood- and acts tough like a cobra. But if this ruse fails, it will then roll over and play dead without the aid of a shovel.
“Her apartment complex in Falls, Wyoming County, just northwest of Scranton, is the same one where officials removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials aren’t sure if the cobra had escaped from that unit.”
I was wondering where a cobra was coming from in the Appalachians.
Short article. It doesn’t say if she needed ‘forty whacks’
to kill the snake or what happened to the carcass.
What was a Cobra doing there anyway?
Are they common in that part of the country?
That is a giant copperhead!
If they're good-looking, encourage them ...
Is that a Ferrari and a Sunbeam Tiger to the right.
“What do you do about the local Cougars?”
At my age, a cougar isn’t a good idea.
Good thinking. Butter, white wine, and mushrooms?
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