Rapid rise in rattlesnakes debated

San Diego Union Tribune Sign On San Diego.com ^ | 6-19-05 | Mike Lee

[C210N]

When's Whacking Day? Should be no problem after that...

[PBRSTREETGANG]

We still only have two (from time to time) in Chappaqua, New York.

[texson66]

Photos of the Sweetwater Rattler Roundup

[myprecious]

I cannot take my Pug around the block

My big dog is a snake killer! We were hiking in the woods and came up on a rattler. The kids were alarmed, but then the dog pushed past them. She grabbed the snake with her jaws and began to sling it back and forth rapidly. The snake just exploded into pieces all of the kids. They thought is was the coolest thing.

It kinda made up for the previous day when she scooped up a baby cottontail rabbit they had found and took off. They cried for 30 minutes.

[onyx]

Good point, but it's likely the warm weather. It "is" snake season here, and I am always on the lookout for rattlers since we live on a canyon rim. I nearly stepped on one as a little girl when I opened my aunt's kitchen door which led directly to her garage and that horrid experience has stuck with me all these years.

[onyx]

Your dog is a true hunter. Good for you and your family. Poor rabbit, but heck, killing the snake made up for it.

[Jim Noble]

Where are all the 12 year olds with .22s?

[onyx]

This is CA,.... I doubt we are permitted to have a whacking day. Got to protect every damn creature.

[onyx]

FOTFLOL Still in school until Friday.

[marvlus]

Coming upon a culvert full of rattlers would be like a nightmare to me!

[myprecious]

Where are all the 12 year olds with .22s?

Home, playing Nintendo.

[Tijeras_Slim]

More than half of the victims are young men trying to show off their snake-handling skills while under the influence of drugs or alcohol,

CRIKEY DUDE!

[Bubba]

410 "Snake Charmer" and/or 357 with rat shot... wonderful things to (be)hold.
They will make a snake leak all over at the same time. AND... they are like N-weapons, granades & bellie rubbing... close does count.

[Bubba]

410 "Snake Charmer" and/or 357 with rat shot... wonderful things to (be)hold.
They will make a snake leak all over at the same time. AND... they are like N-weapons, granades & bellie rubbing... close does count.

[Bubba]

410 "Snake Charmer" and/or 357 with rat shot... wonderful things to (be)hold.
They will make a snake leak all over at the same time. AND... they are like N-weapons, granades & bellie rubbing... close does count.

[Rebelbase]

I think it was something like 87 rattlers in that culvert.

[Bubba]

Please excuse that multi-post, post, post.

It was... site's fault, computer's fault, or stupid computer driver (me). I vote for the latter.

[texson66]

That's a famous (or is it an INFAMOUS?) round up. I'd never be able to participate. Scared to death of snakes, even the nice ones.

Well its only INFAMOUS to the PETA types. (I always thought PETA was People Eating Tasty Animals)They dont have to work around these critters nor do they want to eat them either. If PETA could control the population without a roundup, I think there would still be a roundup for the fried snake!

[MortMan]

My son, in Georgia, took out a moccasin with my .22. He finished the home-defense action with the ice chopper - makes for easy, long-range decapitations of the slithery ones! (I'm proud of him - I'm in KS for work and he's taking care of business back in the Savannah area)

[Ditter]

The day I happened on the snake on the trail I was deer hunting not snake hunting. I shot him with my deer rifle, whatever it was 243 or something like that. I didn't take very careful aim and I remember I kept shooting under him and blowing him up off the ground. When I knew I had one shell left I took aim and blew him in half.

We lived out in the country for a number of years (not south Texas), on a creek and we had copperheads and water mocs. I usually killed them with a shovel. Once I ran over one with my riding lawn mower. That was fun. (I hate snakes)