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I’ve heard rattlesnake taste like chicken!
I'm not sure why you want to use this thread for something more provocative than it really is. This was simply a discussion about a photo I took of a snake. I wanted some confirmation that it wasn't particularly dangerous and the snake's identity. I'd like to keep it around to patrol moles, voles and gophers that have burrowed in my front yard. I wonder if some of the chemicals I've used might've chased into my backyard? So go ahead and mention guns since I have. Just don't break the thread.
Now I'm agreeing with Kev m. I expect frost tonight in Okla.
Dang! I've agreed with him lately, too.. <scratching head>
Perhaps I need to investigate what's involved with keeping a pet mongoose around?In the driveway several days ago:
We have never had rattlesnakes in central NC, until now!Wife just showed a picture a picture of an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, just across the way from our house. I’ve lived here all my 68 years and this is the first. I’m lost for an explanation??free photo sharing websites
I thought that's within their range, even though theyre not common. We're just south of the SC/NC border and they're supposedly around here. Go a little further south and they're much more common. But things keep changing. I saw the first dead armadillo dead on the old I-85 in Spartanburg about a week ago...
But things keep changing. I saw the first dead armadillo dead on the old I-85 in Spartanburg about a week ago...
No, it’s scary kind of strange. They are common 50-75 miles north/west and 50/75 miles south/east of us but not the the Piedmont triad area. At least I’ve never saw one and I’ve spent a lot of time in the woods and fields. This is a first in my lifetime 🤔
Grabbing and dressing a snake is small potatoes. When we met, my future wife had a non-releasable rehab 42lb snapping turtle in the nature center that she managed. His name was Roy. His head was nearly as big as my fist. As a result of the damage to his shell and bad floral fiberglass boat patch repair, he had air in his body cavity and developed persistent pneumonia. so we had to reach in to his enclosure, snatch him up by his tail and stick him into a the corner of a cooler so she could give him shots in his front leg/shoulder. It was apparently a good way for her to screen potential suitors. Then there was the meds that required we stick a plastic drinking glass over his head instead of using the cooler.... I like eating turtle. But wife likes turtles, so I haven't cleaned & cooked any snapping turtle for years. We try to encourage some black snakes around here to keep the other undesirable animals away.
Northern Watersnake. Some call them Blacksnakes, often confused with copperheads.Won't kill you. When I come across them I pick them up by the tail, toss them into a pond or tall grass, just so my dogs don't mess with them.https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Nerodia_sipedon/
, they go where the living is good. Just like humans, why do you think CA wound up with almost 40 million residents?
They seem to be the nastiest non-venomous snake I run across. Territorial, mean, and with the anticoagulant in their saliva the bites are nasty. You're ballsier than I am if you pick them up.I normally just leave snakes alone, cause they do a good job keeping the population down on animals I like less. -Steve
I'd move to Cali if I could afford to and didn't have some family responsibilities. Great weather, scenic vistas, great good, great riding roads. No wonder I can't afford to move there.