2024 Snake Thread

[cycleguy2300]

supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!

I've seen them!

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[RoadRunner]

supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!

You must not get outside much.

 

[Axxe55]

You must not get outside much.

NOT ABLE TO GET OUT ANYMORE

 

[Sasquatch]

Just came in from mowing to get more coffee and cool down, came across my first copperhead on the property this year. The brush pile I've got built up out by our fence I figure must have a dozen of the damn things hiding in it (that's how I always approach it, anyway) and sure enough - after I made my first pass around it, coming back for the second, I saw a "stick" from a distance, almost ran it over, stopped, backed up and got some pix. I had to wait for him to move as I came back on my third pass, but he made it off into the creek bottom unharmed.

 

[Otto_Mation]

Good on you for letting him go. You should scrub that boot with some kind of detergent that breaks down enzymes where he was biting on it. Wear nitrile gloves.

That was a couple weeks ago, hopefully they’re good now.

I don’t think he got his teeth anywhere near the leather though, his head was probably half the size of your pinky fingernail, it was a little bitty one.

Is that venom?

 

[Sasquatch]

One of our dogs loves to go out that way during her daily walks, and none of our damn dumbass dogs seem to pay attention to snakes. Same dog got the shit scared out of her the other night when my wife was walking her by a 4' long rat snake on the opposite side of the yard (also to the front of the property) - they don't see the snakes until they move (as nature intended, I guess)

I don't like letting the dogs get near / into the brush because who knows what kind of critter is lurking in there. I don't need to pay vet bills right now because of a dummy getting bit either.

 

[tedwitt]

Normally when you see one snake there is another one, the often run in pairs so be careful.

 

[Sasquatch]

Normally when you see one snake there is another one, the often run in pairs so be careful.

Yep, I was looking around, but either its mate was already in the creekbed, or still waiting in the burn pile.

 

[Big Green]

Is that venom?

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