Another snake bite in Texas! A rattlesnake warning in Gregg Co - Page 3

I live in eastern NC. Around here we cant afford to kill any copper heads...we hardly ever seen one any more. Its kind of sad in a way. Although I dont really like running up on one  them...

wouldn't consider myself a tree hugger,  but I also hate seeing native wldlife disappear due to habitat loss or from ignorant people killing them.  best thig you can do is remove what draws them to your property, keep grass cut, brush cleared, nothing stacked or laying on the ground, don't leave food laying out in the open to attract rodents, ect.

Lets just kill everything we don't understand or might cause us harm.

After reading this thread, I thought for a minute that Vom Marischal, Nobody Special, and Pharoah, and Maggie Mae had gone for a reunion with their venomous, belly-crawling brethren in the Lone Star State.

louise you must be pissed off because they left you behind

Reminds me ot the tune Never Smile at a Crocodile from the Musical "Peter Pan": www.youtube.com/watch

The housemother in the dorm I lived in while going to high school in France was always playing this old LP. Another version of what goes around comes around?

"Lets just kill everything we don't understand or might cause us harm."

What kind of statement is that? "Cause us harm" thats a nice way of putting MIGHT KILL YOU. We ALL understand that snakes are part of our environment that doesn't mean that we have to let them run our properties at will and harm animals or people. In turn we also understand that SOME snakes are poisonous and would rather not take the chance to run across one. When your yard is cut and clean and have dogs getting bit because the snakes are moving around when its warm then all you can do is kill them. You can catch them I have caught quite a few rattlers and copperheads but most people would rather not.lol The only thing I remember as a kid that I don't see anymore of are the Horny Toads in central Tx. Plenty of snakes though all varieties rattlers, rat, king, copper heads, water moccasins no shortage on snakes. Must have killed 7 copperheads in 3 weeks and no telling how many rattlers over the yrs.. The biggest rattler I have ever seen was about 13ft long and as big as a persons calf. Be careful out there in Tx it will be snake season for a while now.
Matt

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