A pitbull pup died last week tangling with a coral snake. Wonder how the cat did it without getting bit? I know cats are silent stalkers, but rattlers rest on a hair-trigger.
“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 ...
Sad about the Pittie pup, but puppies aren’t very smart ==yet. Cats are excellent at sneaking and killing.
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.
“Wonder how the cat did it without getting bit?”
Cats don’t understand fear. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwtxcWVhAWI
Cats are often faster to start if the cat knows the snake is there, and the warm-blooded cat can stay fast for longer than the snake can. Snakes have problems with multiple strikes (assuming the snake has to reach/stretch to get you) and snakes don’t.
Here are close relatives of your local house cats demonstrating how cats deal with snakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjIZSmyYPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6okkKX3mjV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsaffqAF-Es
Not all individual cats can do this, but cats in general usually win in an open cat v snake fight.
Dogs are sloooooooow compared to cats.