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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Are you confusing copperheads with coral snakes? Coral snakes have to gnaw to inject venom. Copperheads, rattlesnakes, and water moccasins have long, retractable hypodermic fangs. Being pit vipers, all three of them have quick and accurate strikes. Coral snakes, on the other hand, being an elapid tend to have a relatively slow strike and have to gnaw to deliver venom, due in part to its short, non-retractable fangs.
I must be
““Wonder how the cat did it without getting bit? “
cats have amazing reflexes and are amazingly fast ... if you’ve ever seen a couple of house cats fighting they look exactly like those cartoon blurs of fighting animals ...
Never make a cat angry. I have seen what they can do to even a human.
That is a dogabbit.
Poor baby!
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger....or so they say. :)
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