Rattler!! New pics, nother snake pg 3

[fowlplay]

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Lmao! I'm soooo glad we don't have those here. If we did, hubby and I would follow the same relocating procedure.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Beautiful snakes! Especially the more recent one. I don't fool around with venomous snakes, but I do admit they are beautiful.

A friend of mine had a 3 ft rattler under her refridgerator in her kitchen. The only reason they found it before it "got" anything, was because one of the cats was having a seizure like fit next to the refridgerator. The strangest part for me was a dream my friend had told me about they night before they found the snake. She had a reoccuring nightmare that she was sitting on her wooden deck steps playing with a cat and was bitten on the wrist by a rattlesnake. She had this dream for about 3 nights before the found the rattler in the house. Interesting, hm?

-Kim

 

[ticks]

My dad went on a hunting trip in mexico for quail once. There was a guy there with him and he stepped on one. It rattled and almost bit. He had to shoot it, no other option. He gave the rattle off the tail to my dad to give to us.

 

[Cara]

We have bad luck with them out here. I've had three dogs bitten in less than a year; two in one night in our backyard

We shot three on our front porch in a week. That's the same house I was at earlier, I wasn't aware of its snaky reputation until we were under siege trying to locate the one that got the dogs, and almost my husband a few nights previously. One lady who lived their before us had one fall off the carport and onto her car as she got into it, and her cats had one cornered under her car on another occasion!

It's not unusual for the horses to get bitten while grazing, and there have been two guys that I know of get bitten too. One was tying his horse to a tree out in the pasture, and got bitten on the hand by a Diamondback in the tree, and the other stepped on a baby in his front yard. Both spent quite some time in the hospital.

After seeing what the venom did to my dogs, I will not tolerate them.

 

[WriterofWords]

By the way, don't believe the baloney about rattling and coiling before they strike, they don't have to and they don't always. The one that bit me 17 years ago didn't rattle, and wasn't coiled. All in all though, they are beautiful animals if you look at them and take them for what they are. I prefer not to kill them if I don't have to, I'll have them relocated, but if I can't do that safely I dispatch them immediately. We move into their areas and then wonder why they don't stay away? Odd thinking that.

 

[Cara]

I'd happily move away LOL

 

[theOEGBman]

Wow!!! That second one is GORGEOUS! The first one is beautiful as well, but the coloring on that 2nd one is amazing. Im a total snake fanatic, awesome pics!

 

[sunnydee]

Oh my god..and I thought racoons were scarey to think about around my babies!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I like snakes too, but rattlers freak me out!

If only they could be trained to only go after coons, then I wouldn't mind them around here.

 

[1dude]

Wow, never seen one that was white. Kind of stands out which is a good thing. Nice pic.