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Snakes!...I picked up a towel off my patio this evening and a snake was under it....I jumped a mile!..
The snake rose up in a "striking" stanze....my son got the baseball bat and a broom...finally got it off the patio onto the grass and literally beat the hell out of it...
It was a Cottonmouth Water Moccasin, about a foot long.

The weather here is getting hot, so the snakes are coming out.....:run:

Dunno if the snakes family is hiding out there also....gives me the jitters everytime I have to go outside.
 
We get copperheads here sometimes, but I think that is the only poisonous snake. Trucks sometimes have rattlesnakes fall off, but I think the climate kills them.

Hopefully you won't come to close to any more snakes this summer.
 
Bottesini said:
We get copperheads here sometimes, but I think that is the only poisonous snake. Trucks sometimes have rattlesnakes fall off, but I think the climate kills them.

Hopefully you won't come to close to any more snakes this summer.
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Rattlers are in western Iowa. :) People hunt for them out there.
 
pfh: one advantage of living in Toronto-not too many snakes wandering around. I know the Toronto Zoo has a few. Haven't noticed in the neighbourhood. Right-don't miss them!
Is there lots of snakes in Boulders?
Bottesini: has a herd of hounds to keep their eye out for wandering snakes.

Implanted AB Harmony activated Aug/07
 
drphil said:
pfh: one advantage of living in Toronto-not too many snakes wandering around. I know the Toronto Zoo has a few. Haven't noticed in the neighbourhood. Right-don't miss them!
Is there lots of snakes in Boulders?
Bottesini: has a herd of hounds to keep their eye out for wandering snakes.

Implanted AB Harmony activated Aug/07
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Luckily you don't see too many where I live. Not sure my dogs are smart enough to warn me. They are small but think they are mighty.

They would probably get bitten if any got in our yard.

In my childhood home, they were much more common. I picked a baby off the walk one late evening as we came home. It was amazing to see my father get hysterical , grab it from my hands and throw it into the street. :lol:

And he had been an unarmed combat instructor in the army.
 
posts from hell said:
so you support your son's violence towards living animals?
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It's too bad that poisonous snake took up a "residence" on my patio!..If it were a King Snake, Grass Snake or a Garner Snake, of course we would have just removed it and let it "slither" right off....

The snake was so close to my back patio door...it could have slithered into my home, unnoticable, and could have bit one of us, even my doggie, or my Cocktiels. God forbid if I woke up one AM to find it in my bed!

Also, there are children in the neighborhood and animals also...I do worry about my 11-lb. doggie whenever she goes out. We keep the grass cut very short for that reason, among others.

My son is not "violent"...he did the right thing, protecting us and other people too....Say, PFH...if there was a Fire Ant mound near ur patio....would you "try" to remove them to another location?...If so, good luck!...As for us, we kill them...Along with any poisonous snakes that come around "too close for comfort"!
 
rockin'robin said:
It's too bad that poisonous snake took up a "residence" on my patio!..If it were a King Snake, Grass Snake or a Garner Snake, of course we would have just removed it and let it "slither" right off....

The snake was so close to my back patio door...it could have slithered into my home, unnoticable, and could have bit one of us, even my doggie, or my Cocktiels. God forbid if I woke up one AM to find it in my bed!

Also, there are children in the neighborhood and animals also...I do worry about my 11-lb. doggie whenever she goes out. We keep the grass cut very short for that reason, among others.

My son is not "violent"...he did the right thing, protecting us and other people too....Say, PFH...if there was a Fire Ant mound near ur patio....would you "try" to remove them to another location?...If so, good luck!...As for us, we kill them...Along with any poisonous snakes that come around "too close for comfort"!
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I've grown up around fire ant mounds. My parents raised me and my brother on a 5 acre plot of land. We had quite a few mounds.

We left them alone.

Believe it or not, I've had a 5 foot snake slither unnoticed between my legs to find out it was a rattler.

That was when I was a kid. I left it alone. Nature at its best.
 
drphil said:
pfh: one advantage of living in Toronto-not too many snakes wandering around. I know the Toronto Zoo has a few. Haven't noticed in the neighbourhood. Right-don't miss them!
Is there lots of snakes in Boulders?
Bottesini: has a herd of hounds to keep their eye out for wandering snakes.

Implanted AB Harmony activated Aug/07
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I am not too sure on "Lots" but there are quite a variety. Bull, garden, rattlers for instance. A friend's dog got bit by a rattlesnake last year and said that the vet said it was fairly common.

BTW the dog is fine.
 
rockin'robin said:
It's too bad that poisonous snake took up a "residence" on my patio!..If it were a King Snake, Grass Snake or a Garner Snake, of course we would have just removed it and let it "slither" right off....

The snake was so close to my back patio door...it could have slithered into my home, unnoticable, and could have bit one of us, even my doggie, or my Cocktiels. God forbid if I woke up one AM to find it in my bed!

Also, there are children in the neighborhood and animals also...I do worry about my 11-lb. doggie whenever she goes out. We keep the grass cut very short for that reason, among others.

My son is not "violent"...he did the right thing, protecting us and other people too....Say, PFH...if there was a Fire Ant mound near ur patio....would you "try" to remove them to another location?...If so, good luck!...As for us, we kill them...Along with any poisonous snakes that come around "too close for comfort"!
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In Iowa, you are allowed to kill the copperheads if within 50 yards of a home even though protected.

And I checked rattlesnakes, and besides the ones dropped from trucks, there are a few in the eastern counties by the Mississippi where there are a few indigenous rattlers and the same rules apply to them. You can kill them if within 50 yards of a home.

Even the DNR doesn't want people to die just because a snake may be an endangered species.
 
Cottonmouth snakes are unlikely to attack unless they are being picked up. I can understand why people wouldn't want these snakes around though, but couldn't you just have called the Humane Society? They usually take care of these.
 
Ugh, I have a lot of rattlesnakes back home in CA. They took up residence under our porch. My dad killed one once with his shovel and ate its meat... He hung the skin like a trophy. What a beast he is. My brother has killed a bunch as well to protect our livestock and family.

I cannot kill an animal even if it's a poisonous snake, I let someone else do the work so I don't feel very guilty about it.

Anything poisonous scares me... We get a lot of black widows, too. I'm terrified for my dog who is currently staying with my family since he's only 2 pounds and could easily die from a bite, or even eaten whole.
 
lanapoo said:
Ugh, I have a lot of rattlesnakes back home in CA. They took up residence under our porch. My dad killed one once with his shovel and ate its meat... He hung the skin like a trophy. What a beast he is. My brother has killed a bunch as well to protect our livestock and family.

I cannot kill an animal even if it's a poisonous snake, I let someone else do the work so I don't feel very guilty about it.

Anything poisonous scares me... We get a lot of black widows, too. I'm terrified for my dog who is currently staying with my family since he's only 2 pounds and could easily die from a bite, or even eaten whole.
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Just curious - Avocado scares you?
 
Taurus Judge. that should fix'em up

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