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Please be careful when you say that a Copperhead bite won't kill you. We had a local man who raised poisonous snakes die from a Copperhead bite. He had been bitten in the past with not much of an ill effect but this time he was dead within minutes. Several people are looking at jail...
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Well, it's always good to check the protected status, I suppose. We have Timber rattlers here, and I was REALLY wanting a hatband out of one of those .. I guess that won't happen... LOL
Although I LOVE the scientific name of the Timber rattler. Cortalus HORRIDUS ... bwa hahahaha...
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I will if you will .. lol.
Didn't realize they are protected..
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Edited to add: BECAUSE THEY AREN'T! They are under no protected status in Texas. This is the current list of protected snakes in Texas.
Scarlet Snake
Cemophora coccinea Threatened...
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We let a hognose go a couple weeks ago .. he was cute.
We've killed and skinned a snake this year .. and the next copperhead we find, I want to take to the taxidermist .. or, if it's big enough, have a hatband made...
My coop is snake proof (unless they are really really really...
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We let a hognose go a couple weeks ago .. he was cute.
We've killed and skinned a snake this year .. and the next copperhead we find, I want to take to the taxidermist .. or, if it's big enough, have a hatband made...
My coop is snake proof (unless they are really really really...
Gotta love those 5' rat snakes! Last one I saw was at a friends house last year .. in her chicken barn. I grabbed him and drug him outside so her husband could kill him with and axe .. He went to screaming like a girl when he saw I had the snake by the tail .. Bwa ha ha ha
Copperheads are typically NOT aggressive (in fact one of the least aggresive vipers) .. spring months they are more aggresive than at any other time of the year .. but typically they are relatively lazy and avoid confrontation. People usually get bit by stepping on them, or messing with them...