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I don't mind the non-poisonous varieties at all (since we don't have any of the big constrictors here...... yet) and in fact encourage them to live around my house and camp. Poisonous snakes are dispatched to whatever their eternal reward is with all expeditious haste by what ever means are at hand. If you've ever seen a snakebite, particularly a rattlesnake bite, you know it is not something you ever want to do.

Several years ago a girl at school took two copperhead bites on the top and side of her foot. It swelled up and after about a week of hobbling around on crutches, she was none the less for wear. That didn't make it OK. One of our teachers was cleaning out his garage and was carrying a box out to the trash. A three foot Rattler came out of the box and got him on the forearm. IN twelve minutes he was at the ER and had anti venom. It was a long, slow, painful recovery even for a former Marine Corps Master Sargent. Not something I ever want to do.

Alan

you all are missing the boat with them snakes. Snake skins bring good money for bow skins and such. Anyone who wants to sell some let me know and I'll probably be able to hook you up, especially copperheads and cane breaks that are "hole free".

Bbassi.
You'll give Les nightmares with that picture.

A black widow.
With snake skined limbs and quiver.
And spider silencers.

He wake up in a cold sweat and screaming like a little girl!

Mono - I think you are displaying a significant amount of ignorance. Or worse.
Readily available anti-venom is not a magical elixir that makes all boo-boos go away.

You should get a look at the horrible swelling that can still occur and the resulting appeasement that can take place to relieve it. Even after timely anti-venom.

Dry bites are a nice gift, even more common with copper heads.
A poor young boy across the river from me who loved snakes and grabbed a hold of every common water snake he could get his hands on spied a particularly fat one one day. He grabbed it behind the head, as was his custom, then knew that he had screwed the pooch when he felt the rest of the snake pushing against his chest. The result was a bite into the back of his hand.
Not a dry bite.
Horrible medical procedures to deal with the swelling.
After timely anti-venom.
Months of recovery that ended up in permanent disfigurement and disability.
After a non-dry bite.
And after timely anti-venom.

I don't mind snakes that I spy prior to stepping on them. The surprises "scare" me. I'm man enough (and smart enough) to admit that. Some get a pass. Any in what could remotely be considered a hazardous location get a death sentence.

What is the story with your name versus avatar, anyway.
Do you understand the question?

That is the dividing line for snake haters vs tolerate-rs here in the Mid west.

My FIL was from WV and grew up killing every one he saw.
( always funny to see a 6'5" 300 lb hillbilly runnin from a 6" snake!)

But I guess having poisonous critters hangin out in the out house would do that!

I grew up in NE Ohio and brought home every snake I could find.
My dog would catch 'em shake em dead and follow me home with them dragging.

When I was five my mother had a fit when we filled the clothes washer with garter snakes

You been dining with Al Gore?

I will say I'm pleased you don't plan on breeding any time soon...


Travis

There is only two snakes I hate: Satan & the one pictured by Kamerad Les

joe788's graphic example also shows that statistics seldom tell an entire story.

We often see statistics about how few people die of snakebite, but that ignores those who may be permanently maimed, disabled and disfigured.

Same with reports of other traumas, including military casualties. "His injuries are not considered life threatening." Yeah, but...

In this world there are a lot of bad things short of dying.

Paul

Yes, and when I was a lad of under ten in Queensland, I spent an awful lot of time catching Death Adders and Red Belly Blacks in the flood waters of the Thompson River....so what.

I defy ANY sane man to grab an angry Taipan by the bloody tail and not p!ss his pants....and if you want to cuddle a Tiger Snake I can supply you with as many as your little heart desires....same goes for Blacks, Browns and a couple of other cute wee nasties.

These bastards don't make you sick.....they can F_ing well kill you in very short order.
If you want to have a bit of excitement in your life then try dragging 'roo carcases through dry rice stubble in the dark....the rice stubble is absolutely full of the buggers.....they are there after mice, and they are p!ssed when disturbed.
I have lived and worked around them for years....out in the dark....by myself....miles from anywhere.

Stuff feeling all cuddly about them....I shall leave that to those clowns who have a death wish.


Ps, The above does not relate to Carpet snakes.....they go for Aus $100.00 a foot around here and are eagerly sought after for grain sheds and shearing sheds....to keep the vermin down.

I am just like a couple in here.. I too like snakes.




Especially as a hat band or a belt and they even work as faux chicken. I even like them on the road squirming into a ball after being run over.
I lived for a time up in the Tucson Mountains back when there was almost no one up there. I think my nearest neighbor was almost a mile away. My entire family had their share of no much fun snake experiences.

I will not go out of my way to kill one..

An Inland Tiapan and a Brown snake are not the same thing.

Cigar - you Bastid!

shoot em wenever i see em.

Reply to Joe 788
This is my "GO TO" post when people get too warm and fuzzy about Rattlesnakes.

http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/

Pictures are a must see, a bit of reality

they would not starve if there wasn't so muce greed and hate in the world theres enough food and assistance in the world to go around BUT DESPOTS AND DICTATORS SEEM TO NEED MORE THAN OTHERS

bassterd lol

Man, Glad he is alive..

that is friggen unreal,i don't often get squemish ,but i would not want to go thru that,

i've walked around rattlers on hunting trips and heard them while berry picking , know enough to be careful I HOPE ,

might, MIGHT, be 16 feet.....no way the SOB is 50 feet.......damn thing aint dead either..... he looks a bit frisky but i would still catch the [bleep], just a python, been bit by the [bleep] before.....