Posted on 10/13/2021 3:24:36 PM PDT by rey
I’d relocate them to Central Park and grassy areas in DC. Let those filthy tree huggers enjoy the outdoors.😎
This is correct. I don’t have many rattlers here, but I have a BUNCH of copperheads. I always “re-locate” them, ‘cause dead snakes stink around the house..
Collectables?
Rattles keeping them awake ,LOL
Rattler tastes like chewy chicken.
Pretty sure that was suppose to read two four foot snake tong’s. I’ve never seen 24 inch snake tong and I’ve caught rattlers since the 70’s and worked both the Big Spring and Sweetwater roundups here in the Permian Basin.
Snakes will be back. They den up like that in a favorite spot.
Just like my neighbor with raccoons. He kept relocating them. He gave me one. I put a spot of red paint on him and released him ten miles away. Two days later He said he caught a coon with a red dot.
Sweetwater, Texas.
Locals in town are known to raise rattlesnakes in backyard pits for the annual Rattlesnake Roundup.
Prizes for the biggest, longest and heaviest rattlesnakes.
Worse yet: There was a toad on my patio chair. I live on the 3rd floor. How does a toad get up here? It’s the 2nd one.
Scared me.
I can’t imagine an area where relocating rattlers would be welcomed.
My first memories are of living in Langtry, Texas in 1953. I was three. I’m from a multi-generation Border Patrol family, and my dad was stationed there as a new Border Patrol agent (inspector, then), during Operation Wetback. The population of Langtry, then, was about 30, which included those of the four Border Patrol families living there.
Fifty years later, the population was 11. Langtry is the home of the Judge Roy Bean Museum, and a Texas state rest stop along the highway. The rest stop has about a two acre cactus garden. The guy, fifty years later, who ran the rest stop for Texas, moved to Langtry about the time we moved to Del Rio. In our conversation, my bride asked him if they get any poisonous snakes in the cactus garden (which has a good walking or meandering path through it). His reply:
“Oh, sure. Once or twice a year someone from New York or New Jersey will tell us of a snake in the garden, usually a rattler or copperhead...and then they always say, ‘You’re not going to kill it, are you?’ I always reply, ‘No, we’re going to relocate it.’ After they leave, we kill it and relocate it out into the desert.”
I would have used a .22 40 grain conical round. 😐
Send them to the border
Looked like a meeting of the ABA.
Tastes like chicken!
Yep. There’s a whole lotta rattlers out that way.
Hope that is not a personal experience picture!!
If you get bit in Texas, call ahead to find what hospitals carry the antivennom.
Many do not due to expense and it being perishable.
If all they do in the ER is mark lines above the bite, pack up and start calling.
Hell no! I’m a snake-o-phobe! I’ve lived where they are and am extremely cautious!
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