My new pet snake *PICS*

[chilling in muscadine]

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Hey Texasgal, I did drop off the site for awhile due to my health and then I find out I have breast cancer so I haven't felt well enough to do any posting. I'm just now getting to where I feel like posting at all. I am going to invest into a laptop hopefully soon so if I don't feel like getting out of bed i can still go online. Snake may be getting a job soon, a good paying job but the job will be in Texas. OOCH The timing is terrible. My cancer treatments will not end until the first of december. But I gotta vote for him to go, take the job. There are no jobs here. I'll find out who my real friends are if I have any trouble, right.

I'll save you some killer fangs or a shed from the puff adder or the gaboom viper since I didn't send you anything last season. Let me know what you would be interested in. Maybe both.

S@R@

 

[babyblue]

I really have enjoyed reading this thread. yes Id bet your snake bubba was someone’s pet at one point, he looks like he hasn’t missed a meal in his lifetime lol. I wish you guys lived closer because I would most defiantly rehome some rat snakes for you. my barn cat is all of 5 pounds and a worthless hunter. the rats come in the horse stall and share the horses food. considering he gets plenty and weight gain and vitamins the rats are huge, shiny and healthy lol.


do have a question. central pa. tiny snake, I mean tiny.... like 6 inches max and slim as a pencil. very light brown and patterned. the only snake I have ever seen on the farm in six years. my horse spooked it and took off like lightening and was never seen again, what is it?

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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Snakeman says he isn't quite sure what kind it is but it being slender it could be a decay or garder snake. He says not to worry that it is most likely not venomous. Venomous snakes are fatter snakes. What time of year did you see this snake? The babies are hatching in August and September. Snakeman said he thinks with the brown color its definately a decay snake. I'm not sure I'm spelling decay right. Snakeman has studied snakes for 50 years now but never hunted in Va. Try getting a book from your local library and see if this is what you saw. Let me know what you find out.

We will be taking pics of the baby copperheads today. I can't wait!!!!!

S@R@

 

[ranchhand]

Hi Sara, glad to see the feisty you again!

Your post about dogs, #152, is dead on, as usual. When my hound Tiger sniffed a snake last year I didn't know what it was. Late night, howling about his nose. Got a Benadryl in him thinking it was a bee sting. The next day I took a picture or Mr. Pitiful's swollen face. That's when I spotted the two puncture marks. Later that day we found a medium size copperhead in the dog yard. I emailed the pics to the vet and his advice was to continue the Benadryl and bring him in if I saw any signs of any infection.It took several days, but he's just fine now, a year later. Thank you to you and Snakeman for your excellent advice!

Last words to the boys when they go out? Don't sniff the snakes!

We've had a zillion yellow rat snakes this year and one cane brake.

ETA, the rat snakes are living in the roof, where the house roof meets the porch roof, lol. NO mice for miles around!

 

[texasgal]

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Hey Texasgal, I did drop off the site for awhile due to my health and then I find out I have breast cancer so I haven't felt well enough to do any posting. I'm just now getting to where I feel like posting at all. I am going to invest into a laptop hopefully soon so if I don't feel like getting out of bed i can still go online. Snake may be getting a job soon, a good paying job but the job will be in Texas. OOCH The timing is terrible. My cancer treatments will not end until the first of december. But I gotta vote for him to go, take the job. There are no jobs here. I'll find out who my real friends are if I have any trouble, right.

I'll save you some killer fangs or a shed from the puff adder or the gaboom viper since I didn't send you anything last season. Let me know what you would be interested in. Maybe both.

S@R@

Hey girl!! I'm glad you're feeling a little better .. I think I remember reading about your cancer. That's a real life-cramper, huh? I'm so so glad you are "back" ..

Where in Texas is Snake going to be hanging out?? I'd rather drop everything and come hang out with YOU while he's gone, but if I get to hook up and meet him, it would be ALMOST as nice!

Whatever you save me will be absolutely great! I would treasure anything!

Come play with us more when you feel like it!

~tg

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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I'm so happy the meds helped. Looking for the puncture wounds is the clue. Non venomous bites leave like prick marks from there teeth. As long as the dog takes the bite on the snout, neck, legs or tail the dog will most likely make it. A bite to the belly area is a biger danger. Snakes will give whats called a dry bite but with a dog after it the bite was NO dry bite.

Now if a small dog gets into it wth a large venomous snake I would do the benedryl
and get to a vet quickly. It depends on how much danger the snake feels as to how much venom it is willing to use against the dog opponent. If you don't happen to see the snake but see the fang marks then you can kinda judge how big the snake was by how far apart the fang marks are. As far as copperheads, there venom is way down on the venom list meaning not likely to be deadly but there. They are the least venomous snake in the united states.
I'm not saying they are safe, they can cause problems for humans and our animals. They have hemotoxins and what this does is start the digestion of its prey. It starts shutting down your blood vessels. Snakeman is missing part of one of his fingers. Its a huge indention where meat and muscle should be. When this copperhead bite him it was mad.
I beleive I posted this last year but what we do is catch a black racer. They have terrible attitudes and blow on the snakes face an let the snake clamp down on the dogs nose and we don't have the dog and snake problem anymore. I know this sounds cruel but it has worked for us and we want let anything happen to the snake either, so forgive me ahead of time. lol
Great advice for your dogs. lol
S@R@

 

[chilling in muscadine]

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Hey Texasgal, I did drop off the site for awhile due to my health and then I find out I have breast cancer so I haven't felt well enough to do any posting. I'm just now getting to where I feel like posting at all. I am going to invest into a laptop hopefully soon so if I don't feel like getting out of bed i can still go online. Snake may be getting a job soon, a good paying job but the job will be in Texas. OOCH The timing is terrible. My cancer treatments will not end until the first of december. But I gotta vote for him to go, take the job. There are no jobs here. I'll find out who my real friends are if I have any trouble, right.

I'll save you some killer fangs or a shed from the puff adder or the gaboom viper since I didn't send you anything last season. Let me know what you would be interested in. Maybe both.

S@R@

Hey girl!! I'm glad you're feeling a little better .. I think I remember reading about your cancer. That's a real life-cramper, huh? I'm so so glad you are "back" ..

Where in Texas is Snake going to be hanging out?? I'd rather drop everything and come hang out with YOU while he's gone, but if I get to hook up and meet him, it would be ALMOST as nice!

Whatever you save me will be absolutely great! I would treasure anything!

Come play with us more when you feel like it!

~tg

I'm not sure on the Texas job thing yet. It could still fall through. We have our fingers crossed though. I'll let ya know what I get next. You know sometimes the sheds come out to crummy to use. If you did come here to vist you would never be bored, I could promise you that. lol There is something always going on and that was a very sweet offer to make. I'll keep you posted on what I get soon. Take care!

S@R@

 

[chilling in muscadine]

Now thats a bunch of beautiful babies. Some of them have the broke bands in there patterns. Snakeman likes these because they are unually he says. We are not keeping these. We are already feeding to much stuff now.

 

[chilling in muscadine]

Tuesday night at around 12:30 am the deputies came and picked up Snakeman. They got a call about a rattlesnake in someone house behind there T.V. While the deputy and Snakeman were on the way there the lady called someone and they told her to through something behind the T.V. to see if the snake rattled. Well the snake did rattle and went on the move. That was the worst thing she could of done. Snakeman looked for a long time but never found the snake, now these people have a rattle snake in there house. We are waiting on there call anytime now.

 

[texasgal]

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Oh geeeeeeeeez .. any update on this???