Another snake bite in Texas! A rattlesnake warning in Gregg Co - Page 2

I don't like to kill snakes, although, I don't have any dangerous ones lurking in my yard!  Though pretty rare near the city, I've seen a few copperheads around here and there are rattlesnakes a bit further north, but none in my yard!  People around here freak out when the find a little garter snake in their garden.  Stay alert lady!

        TAKE A GOOD LOOK     HERE ARE LAST YEARS KILL  ...ONLY A FEW OF THEM..

Sunsilver :   Son is not doing well...he is laying in a bed in Santa fe, tx  no  disability because the attorney didnt present the case and missed his court SS review so the Judge ruled against him and he has been denied too many times...  he had half of his remaining foot removed in June a year ago and no attorney we have contacted wants to mess with it   NO MONEY IN IT FOR THEM>.and we have contacted many....It is a difficult long case so he has given up...he quit his rehab and his food stamps and eats little and  he hopes he dies by next year.....you ask so I am telling you..I cannot do anything further it is in GOds hands...My and others pray for him and I have spent 19 years fighting Workmans comp and two senators and the WC board cannot make any DR take his case..NONE will   NO MONEY...WC doesnt pay the bils.. end of story...or should I say the insurance co who holds the decree doesnt pay the bills....Drs. in TEXAS  have refused to treat MEdicaid or Workman comp patients..


Now back to the SNAKES ....Yes  there are many copperheads on my property...Today I am mowing and weed eating to try to run them off...if you keep things mowed they only hide....yes  they hid under my wood piles and under the barn and under rocks in flower beds...One of the plagues of living in Texas is SNAKES>....the one in the top pic had eaten something..my son in law took it home with him and was gonna cut it open and see what it was the snake ate...I have not talked to him today...could have been a mouse etc...they do eat rodents  but heck ,, I would rather have a mouse rather than a poisonous snake running up to me....

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE GROUND WHEN WALKING.......IN TEXAS......THEY ARE HOT AND LOOKING FOR BUGS AND COOL PLACES TO HIDE......I HAVE NIGHT LIGHTS ALL OVER MY ACREAGE SO I WALK ON TIP TOE WHEN APPROACHING THE LIGHTED AREAS AT MIDNIGHT......YES MIDNIGHT...I WORK AT NIGHT NOT DAYTIME....WITH THE NIGHT CREATURES...INCLUDING   THE    SKUNK....


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        TAKE A GOOD LOOK     HERE ARE LAST YEARS KILL  ...ONLY A FEW OF THEM..

Sunsilver :   Son is not doing well...he is laying in a bed in Santa fe, tx  no  disability because the attorney didnt present the case and missed his court SS review so the Judge ruled against him and he has been denied too many times...  he had half of his remaining foot removed in June a year ago and no attorney we have contacted wants to mess with it   NO MONEY IN IT FOR THEM>.and we have contacted many....It is a difficult long case so he has given up...he quit his rehab and his food stamps and eats little and  he hopes he dies by next year.....you ask so I am telling you..I cannot do anything further it is in GOds hands...My and others pray for him and I have spent 19 years fighting Workmans comp and two senators and the WC b ooard cannot make any DR take his case..NONE will   NO MONEY...WC doesnt pay the bils.. end of story...or should I say the insurance co who holds the decree doesnt pay the bills....Drs. in TEXAS  have refused to treat MEdicaid or Workman comp patients..


Now back to the SNAKES ....Yes  there are many copperheads on my property...Today I am mowing and weed eating to try to run them off...if you keep things mowed they only hide....yes  they hid under my wood piles and under the barn and under rocks in flower beds...One of the plagues of living in Texas is SNAKES>....the one in the top pic had eaten something..my son in law took it home with him and was gonna cut it open and see what it was the snake ate...I have not talked to him today...could have been a mouse etc...they do eat rpdent but heck ,, I would rather have a mouse rathter than a poisonous snake running up to me....

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE GROUND WHEN WALKING.......IN TEXAS......THEY ARE HOT AND LOOKING FOR BUGS AND COOL PLACES TO HIDE......I HAVE NIGHT LIGHTS ALL OVER MY ACREAGE SO I WALK ON TIP TOE WHEN APPROACHING THE LIGHTED AREAS AT MIDNIGHT......YES MIDNIGHT...I WORK AT NIGHT NOT DAYTIME....WITH THE NIGHT CREATURES...INCLUDING   THE    SKUNK....


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see. I have a problem with this.

everything has a right to live,  if you don't want them around,  then remove what draws them to your property, brush, dead limbs, hiding places ect.

We are loosing our wild populations of reptiles, venomous and non at  an alarming rate!  in 25 yrs of living on my property, I have found 1!

as a child, I remember seing tons of skinks, horny toads, and other lizards, along with many corn snakes, bull snakes, copperheads, garters, ect. even box turtles were prevalent out here, now adays,  you can go decades without coming across one. unless it is dead on the highway.

snkes eat rats and mice which are main diease carriers, either by themselves or thru the fleas they carry, what happens when you kill all the snakes?

We have them here in So. Miss. also.  We have Copperheads, Canebrake Rattlers, Eastern Diamondbacks (upto 10 ft and as big around as the calf of your leg).  But the most dreaded and dangerous Water Moccasins, deadly venom and huge fangs.  Found in and around water BUT also dry ground when the small creeks and streams dry up Summer heat.

So, if venomous we kill them.  Sister almost died from Copperhead bite so we take no prisoners.

But, all non-venomous are free to roam.  As a matter of fact I welcome them around the barn and kennel. 

TUFF

the easten and canebrake are both threatened species, venomous snakes are not out to get peole, infact they try to avoid them. 
the problem is people move housing additions ect onto land where these snakes have lived for millions of years, people destroy habitat.

how hard is it to bucket one of these guys and relocate instead of flat out killing them?

and FYI the copperhead ad water mossacin are the least venomous snakes in the country.  if you do get bit, it is hardly life threatening, though it is painful.

and anothr thing, there is a harmless water snake called a blotched head, most mossacin encounters are actually with the harmless blotch head snake.

I have personally kept western diamond backs (even force fed one for a while that was sick) and have kept copperheads,  thse are not ovely aggressive snakes, a harmless coachwhip is far more aggression than the venomous rattler or copperhead.

I swear captive breeding and care are the only ways some of our species will survive past the next 2 decades, if they last that long.

our rule of thumb at my place is, if it isn't bothering anyone, let it be.  even venomous things have an important role to play in the local food chain.  we find one, it is contained and moved to a location where it is less likely to ecounter a road or people.

oh, and living 25 years on this property, which is rural and next to open pasture and farmland, we have only had 1 dog with a snake bite, and it as over 10 years ago.

Uber,

Good luck snake wrangling.  I am not catching nor preserving a poisonous snake on MY property.

Let the Sierra Club or some other tree huggers come and remove them, I'll not stop them.  As a matter of fact they will be real easy to catch -THEY WILL BE DEAD.

Been living on this farm for 40 years - I've had dogs bitten, horses bitten, and cows also.  The life of a poisonous snake and it's offspring is definitely endangered HERE.  Big or little, off they go to the great snake heaven in the sky.

TUFF

I'm sorry Uber,
In only ONE YEAR, one summer in fact,  I had 10 rattlesnake bites to my dogs. I assume they were slithering into my dogs kennels for the warmth of the concrete, and TWO died, One was young and struck in the chest and the other was a senior, and both were already dead when we got up in the morning, so yes I will kill a venomous snake.
Stacy
P.S. I am certainly not going to wrangle venomous snakes. Didn't you say "if it isn't bothering anyone, let it be"
Wouldn't you also agree that trying to catch it with a stick and a sack or bucket, in the snake's mind may be considered "bothering it?"
Jeez.... Sorry to get so defensive, but I lost two dogs I loved to snake bites and I am not losing another, nor having one of my children bitten by accidentally stepping on one, I don't care how little venom they have in them.
Stacy