LOL...maybe I USED to be, but not any more! I was standing in tractor supply reading the labels on the live traps and mumbled not quite under my breath: "Catch and release my ***...if I catch him, I'm gonna blow his dang head off" and this old grizzled guy behind me that I didn't see bust out laughing.
Quote: Ha. My oldest sister clobbered a rattlesnake with a log once. It was the only one we ever came across on that property. And when my father was in his early 80s I was mowing the steep bank in front of the barn and came upon a copperhead coiled against the base of the tree. I went to the house to get Daddy and he came out there, moving slowly. He stood there on the sloping bank looking at the snake a few moments then reached down and picked up a sturdy chunk of a limb that had fallen. He's left handed, always strong but not athletic and though he was an old-fashioned family doctor, housecalls and all, he'd come home and split wood and tend to his property and animals. He shifted his feet a little to get the right angle and held very still for a few seconds. Then he smacked that snake in the head so fast it took my breath away. Smashed its head right against the trunk of that tree. One blow was all it took. And the snake's only movement after that was a slow drift of its head to the ground. Daddy scooped it up on the stick, walked a little ways and flung it into the woods. Then he went back into the house.
lol!
Makes no difference to the law.
They are protected under the International Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
