Posted on 04/29/2018 6:09:06 AM PDT by bgill
Hubby was bit by a baby cotton mouth in the yard but thankfully it was a dry bite so he was already out of venom.
A friend had shot a rattlesnake and suddenly had things flying through the air hitting him. Turned out she was giving birth and the babies were blasted out. He gathered up a dozen or so live ones to show us. Rattlesnakes have live births rather than by eggs.
Just what Texas needs — another venomous snake species. But the bigger question is where are its siblings? One need look no further than Florida, to see the impact of introducing a non-indigenous snake species into the wild, for which there’s no known natural predator, and completely disrupting an entire statewide ecosystem.
These cobras are highly aggressive, extremely deadly and a very real threat to humans, pets and livestock alike. This is no Aggie joke. Rattlesnakes, Copperheads, Water Moccasins and Coral Snakes are all docile by comparison. If these things are able to breed, survive in our environment and migrate outward, we could be in big trouble.
There’s more to it than latitude. Temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns are different in Asia.
I was in my garage shop, looked down at my feet and back amongst the boxes of junk was a copperhead about 14 inches long. The problem was how do I dispatch him? Can’t hit him with much of anything because he’s between/behind the boxes. (I can verify the story that when upset, copperheads do vibrate their tails. His was hitting the side of a cardboard box to create a buzzing sound. Finally used a pellet pistol to shoot him. A couple of people here in Missouri have died from copperhead bites, I think both snakes were young ones.
Snakes ain’t evil
They’re just doing what the creator says
My line is
Don’t bug them
They won’t bug you !
Miss Kitty came in with some sort of snake wrapped around her 3-4 times and deposited it in the middle of the living room floor. I was frantically looking for something to kill it with but decided the shotgun wasn’t the thing to use inside the house. The garden hoe was too far away. Decided on grandma’s cast iron skillet and beat him to a greasy spot in the carpet all the time yelling NO! DIE! NO! DIE! Two weeks later, the next door neighbor asked what was wrong and said she considered calling the sheriff. Geez, what if I was the one being murdered and she didn’t call or come check?
That cat became an indoor cat for about a decade. These days, with a house full of cats, they bring in their wiggly trophies every hour on the hour. One has been chasing around a lizard all morning. Lizards are one thing but they better not bring in any cobras.
Another time, out at the old farm place, we’d just driven in and mother rushed to use the bathroom. She immediately rushed back out yelling about a snake in the toilet. Grandpa said he’d been hearing noises in there and put a rock on the lid. I sat down and rested my head on my arms on the seat and saw nothing. Mother continued to complain. Grandpa always believe gasoline solved all problems so poured a gallon down the toilet. Cool! Big white clunks of something came bubbling up so my head got further in and then BAM! A 6 foot racer flew out of it hitting me right between the eyes. Everyone ran. Even grandpa who was yelling for someone to shut the door. Mother told him to shut it himself as she jumped onto the coffee table. The gas made the snake crazy so it was climbing the walls and slithering into the hall. Grandpa finally got a hoe but it was scary exciting running from the thing.
“Aggies, walk with shovel.”
CCI makes a variety of pistol-caliber shot shells for your EDC sidearm.
http://www.cci-ammunition.com/products/pestcontrol_specialty.aspx
Don’t bug them
They won’t bug you !
Except what the snake considers bugging them, we might consider as something pretty innocent like walking across the lawn or weeding the garden or entering a shed or kids playing...
Somebody should tell your friend that the young ones are just as venomous as the adults.
No step on snek
I got bit by a baby copperhead. Felt like the worst bee sting ever. Hit me on my pinkie finger. By the time I got to the hospital my skin had turned black. Ended up getting a bill for 66,600.00. 33,000 each for the 2 anti-venom shots & 600.00 for the overnight stay in the hospital. My cost ended up being 3,500.00 as insurance picked up the rest.
I always wonder why it hasn’t happened before, seems like it would be a pretty easy thing to do as far as terrorism/vandalism goes.
FReegards
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