Posted on 10/05/2019 10:16:27 AM PDT by RummyChick
A copperhead snake was left dead after getting a taste of ‘claw enforcement’ from a cat who protected her 81-year-old owner from the unwanted venomous intruder.
The incident took place in Speedwell, Tennessee last week, where Jimmie Nelson lives with Shelly, his adopted shelter cat.
Nelson says he heard a noise in the middle of the night. At the time, he thought it was just Shelly being playful.
Two days later, however, he realized what the commotion was about.
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The way my cat “winds up” before pouncing, I’m not sure she’d win in such a contest.
Cat get snak, snek attack, kitteh fight back!!!
Thanks for sharing the video of another brave cat, this one saving a little boy from a vicious dog.
Besides, it’s just a matter of time before the cat decides to smother the old guy in his sleep then eat him.........
I go fishing off the beach for salmon here in the beutiful Pacific Northwest almost every day. I caught a small Coho salmon just yesterday with a buzz bomb. I often see eagles swoop down and effortlessly clutch salmon out of the water. But one day an eagle was floating parallel to the beach slowly flying North with something that wasn’t a fish. I couldn’t tell what it was but it did have the shape of a rope. It COULD have been a snake, but it may have been someone’s dreadlock (This county is full of homeless, hippy ‘Rasta wannabes’) But more likely it was some animal’s intestines.
Copperhead snake bites usually are not lethal but can make a person very sick.
I have a family of Harris’s Hawks that are living in my yard. Bonus! They eat rattlesnakes. Haven’t seen one since they moved in.
A few years back when we were down in south Texas, my wife noted all the roadrunners around a friend’s yard and mentioned that they killed and ate baby rattlesnakes.
But when she told him he probably didn’t have to worry about rattlesnakes in his yard, he looked at her and said very seriously, “Yes, but they can’t get’em all.”
> Thanks for sharing the video of another brave cat <
I will pass along your thanks to my cat. She demanded that I post that video.
Given the distribution of the Harris Hawk and the fact your picture show pine trees I'm going to guess that you're somewhere in Arizona in Santa Cruz County, Arizona or nearby or maybe the Texas Hill Country.
Most people don't know that the Harris Hawk is one of the few raptors that hunt in packs like walls. Cool bird.
Here is the distribution of the Harris Hawk
Cats really do have reflexes on a different level.
We have a fairly sedate and plump tabby that never ceases to amaze me. Birds down the chimney caught in the mouth, pulling a garden snake out from under the sink, etc.
And then there are the headless mice . . .
Sad about the Pittie pup, but puppies aren’t very smart ==yet. Cats are excellent at sneaking and killing.
To a bored cat, snakes are an amusing challenge, they get a lot of play time before it dies.
I had a Siamese mix that we found as an emaciated kitten after its mom had been killed at a rest stop... she grew up to be a voracious snake hunter. But one day she found one that was just too big to handle [and apparently didn’t want to play] and came to get us. She called all the way, led us out of the house, and around the side by the water hose, then sat down facing an overturned muck bucket and pawed the edge. At first we couldn’t figure out why she was carrying on, all we saw was the bucket, which had what looked like algae-filled water in the rolled brim, which was about an inch and a half thick and deep. My mom picked up the bucket, holding it upside down to see if the cat knew something was under it, but there was nothing. Mom shook the crap out of the bucket to knock what she thought was making the bucket so heavy, to no avail.
Then when she let it slam back down, we saw the movement of a snake that was enjoying the warm water. I thought at first it was just a water snake, but when the snake decided to get away from all the excitement and find another quiet place to sleep, it was a cat-eyed water moccasin. Fortunately the hot water bath had it in a very good mood and it wasn’t very irritated.
Actually Tucson, I have a couple of huge pine trees in my yard, though. Thanks for the distribution map. I just hope I don’t have to report them through SB1070!
Cats are badass and pound-for-pound they are much more lethal than a canine. I watched my cat, an very large, un-neutered orange tabby/Siamese mix, leap down from a flatbed truck onto the head of a large Great Dane to maul its face. It latched its front claws into the ears of the Great Dane and proceeded to rake its face and muzzle with its back claws. After my cat was done he walked away without even looking back.
He was not cornered, he chose that fight.
... And then there are the headless mice . .
Or the mouseless heads, chipmunks, birds, moles, voles, lizards...
Copperheads don’t have the rattlesnake type fangs. The don’t move as fast as some other snakes, either. A copperhead sort of gnaws its venom into a bite wound. Cats move faster than copperheads.
A lot of clever moves in that one little gif. Love that little left hood while in mid-air!
Once had a fish dropped near me while out walking in a wooded area. Ospreys had a nest nearby, so it was probably one of them.
There were also eagles around but they tended to stay away from the ospreys.
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