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| Well, I went out to see what the weather was looking like and there was a darn copperhead at the big door of my garage. He is no longer with us as I hacked him up with a shovel. THIS IS THE FOURTH SNAKE I HAVE KILLED THIS YEAR. Two were copperheads and two were nonpoisonous somethings. My neighbor had a copperhead in her garage and had to call her brother in law to kill it. There have been two down at my front gate and I did not have anything to kill them with. They were not of the poisonous variety. I do not think I have killed four snakes since I have lived here for about 32 years, much less four in one year.
Watch out for snakes especially if you live in E TX. Seems they are going to be BAD this year. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last. 
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| I ALMOST stepped on a snake last night while in a hurry to get my horse in the barn before the storms, (that we never got) - THEN, it got in a hole and stuck straight up looking at me - YUCK, I HATE them! |
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Location: Dubach, LA | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.
NO WAY! |
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Location: Texas | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.
 IN THE HOUSE???? Heck NO!!! They can have it!!! |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | I think I got de-sensitized a bit to snakes from working with them at the clinic...so I am fine with leaving all of the non-poisonus ones alone here. But...I will happily, calmly hack to bits any copperheads or other venomous critters I see. We squashed a big fat copperhead on the county road this morning.  |
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | My husband confessed he has seen/killed two snakes on our property since we have been here and he never said anything. I hate snakes and I have a serious fear of finding one. I don't like hearing things like this. I wish I could bring my horse inside with me to stomp all around and make them go away... |
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Location: Kansas | BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-05-08 8:11 AM AWWWWW .. Nothing like rattlesnakes being in love in the spring time ...
EFF THAT!!!!!! |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2014-05-08 8:56 AM
BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-05-08 8:11 AM AWWWWW .. Nothing like rattlesnakes being in love in the spring time ...
EFF THAT!!!!!!
WHERE is my SHOTGUN!!!!!????!!!  |
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Location: Texas | Those are BIG!!!!! |
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Location: North Dakota | BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-05-08 8:11 AM AWWWWW .. Nothing like rattlesnakes being in love in the spring time ...
HOLY FRIJOLES!!! Those suckers are HUGE!! Snakes are disgusting. The way they move and slither just gives me the willys. |
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Location: Texas | I HATE snakes!!! If I see a snake I am on top of someone/something to get away from it!! We have seen 3 or 4 this yr. I stepped RIGHT next to a snake last week. I was going to break up a fight between 2 male cats and I looked down and it was coiled up. We cut him up. When I was riding Monday we rode up on 1 or 2 ( it was in the same spot so I don't know if it was the same snake) and there was a HUGE snake laying ( dead thankfully!) In my neighbors drive way |
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Location: Texas | BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-05-08 8:11 AM
AWWWWW .. Nothing like rattlesnakes being in love in the spring time ...
Where's the gun??? |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I like snakes. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Change the title as someone decided to post pictures where is says there aren't any.
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | We have seen six big bull snakes in our pasture...but they kill rattlesnakes and ground squirrels so we leave them alone. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | CanCan - 2014-05-08 7:05 AM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.
ha ha ha ha,,, it came threw the back sliding glass doors I think , because we leave it open, it opens to my back porch and I let my cat go out there to use its potty box. So now I wont be leaving it open much anymore. Ratsnakes dont bother me at all, its the bads ones that worry me, thank goodness it was not a copper head or rattlesnake, their my biggest fear and have plenty of them. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | scamper - 2014-05-08 7:11 AM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.  I know, I hate that it got in, so now I'm always on the snake hunt, and making sure all doors are close.
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Location: Soon where I want to be:) | HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM
I like snakes.
Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch? |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 10:34 AM CanCan - 2014-05-08 7:05 AM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.
They are ALL completely HORRIFYING to me! I think I need therapy for snake-phobia! |
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The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 10:37 AM scamper - 2014-05-08 7:11 AM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.
EWWWWW Snakes in YOUR HOUSE??? That is just too much for me to even think about..ratsnake or any snake for that matter would not be welcome in my house. What if it took up residence under my bed, along with the monsters that hide there, and came out at night to get me. I WOULD JUST DIE!! |
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Location: Roping pen | We would kill 6-12 rattlesnakes around the yard every year until we started leaving a radio on in the barn. Haven't seen one yet. |
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | I have seen tons of bull snakes but no rattlers yet this year. Last year both my sister and my dog got bit by rattlers within 2 weeks of each other, so now I am all kinds of paranoid. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | swede - 2014-05-08 10:39 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM I like snakes. Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch?
I did that for you, Anna. He was a pretty little fella but he was lurking right outside your door next to the steps. I think he's the one who bit your dog and your gelding. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 11:38 AM
swede - 2014-05-08 10:39 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM I like snakes. Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch?
What kind was it? |
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Location: North Dakota | We have a spider infestation. I hope the snakes don't have the same population boom! |
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Location: Soon where I want to be:) | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 11:56 AM
HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 11:38 AM
swede - 2014-05-08 10:39 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM I like snakes. Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch?
What kind was it?
Copperhead, probably the one that bit my dog. But it was a rattler that got my horse:(
Thanks Scott better you then me as Im scared to death of snakes. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2014-05-08 11:26 AM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 10:37 AM scamper - 2014-05-08 7:11 AM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-07 11:34 PM Oh I know , Killed the first rattlesnake of the year in my back yard a few weeks ago, and caught a ratsnake in the house night befor last.
Oh not welcome thats for sure  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | swede - 2014-05-08 12:16 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 11:56 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 11:38 AM swede - 2014-05-08 10:39 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM I like snakes. Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch? What kind was it? Copperhead, probably the one that bit my dog. But it was a rattler that got my horse: ( Thanks Scott better you then me as Im scared to death of snakes.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 1:04 PM swede - 2014-05-08 12:16 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 11:56 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 11:38 AM swede - 2014-05-08 10:39 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM I like snakes. Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch? What kind was it? Copperhead, probably the one that bit my dog. But it was a rattler that got my horse: ( Thanks Scott better you then me as Im scared to death of snakes.
No, she lives near Bastrop outside of Austin. I was visiting. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 1:12 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 1:04 PM swede - 2014-05-08 12:16 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-08 11:56 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 11:38 AM swede - 2014-05-08 10:39 AM HotbearLVR - 2014-05-08 10:22 AM I like snakes. Did you like the one you found and killed on my porch? What kind was it? Copperhead, probably the one that bit my dog. But it was a rattler that got my horse: ( Thanks Scott better you then me as Im scared to death of snakes.
Oh that explains it, I didnt think there were copperheads and rattlesnakes in Minnesota or is there?  |
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Location: East Texas | putting sulfur out seems to work
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | CrossDRanch - 2014-05-08 2:07 PM putting sulfur out seems to work
I need to try that |
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| We have tons of rattle I usually kill around ten a year but this year I thought about trying sulfer or lime .we have a man at work who sprays for insects and he also has something to repell snakes but I live too far out for people to come |
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| CrossDRanch - 2014-05-08 2:07 PM
putting sulfur out seems to work
Sulfur does work and I have a bag of some kind of rose stuff that is sulfur. I will get it out when it stops raining. This is the second copperhead that has been killed down our road in a week. The other one was in a neighbor's garage. The road is VERY short.
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Location: Red Raiderland | Yep, we've seen several copperheads and a couple rats snakes since the beginning of April. We just got nearly 4" of rain tonight so I expect more to be around. I am nervous as heck about them because my dogs get to go run the pastures with us every evening. I am really freaked about my two Doxies getting bitten. To add to my axiety the scorpions are out like crazy inside our new house. Ive probably killed 15 since moving in in Feb. 
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Location: North MS | If anyone wants example pics- I sure have some fresh ones! Last week I was working one county away from my home in North MS. I have went my entire life in MS without seeing a rattlesnake until last year. I ended up seeing two last year in Forest County, I now hate that county. So week before last I pick a plot to go work on by myself on a Friday (hard to get an assistant to help measure trees on Fridays). Last time it only had two trees on it and one of my subplots fell in a pasture. So I set out based on the crudely drawn map the previous cruisers made showing how to reach the plot. I walk down into a bottomland area and have to cross a dry creek. Area is moist, but no standing water. I poke around with my stick and scare my first MS chipmunk out of the bank area. Seems safe enough so I cross. I look around the immediate creek area for a bit easier way to cross coming back and see the snake. It is dangling and wrapped partially in and out of vines/overhanging items on the creek edge. My first thought was rattlesnake but I couldn't see the head well or the tail at all. So I snapped a quick pic with my phone and moved on. Faced a mountain of kudzu ahead of me and the snake took all my courage so I forged my own trail over to the pasture and walked in that way. The plot ended up being not too badly covered in kudzu and thankfully I avoided the snake area on the way out.
Fast forward to Monday- I am heading down to Jackson MS for a meeting for training on how to measure vegetation on plots (we only measure trees during spring and fall). So I decide to locate two of my future plots near the meeting area. I find the first one easy and it is a fairly long walk so I decide not to investigate further. I drive to the second plot area and look for a way in with my truck. A man stops and asks if I need help- turns out he is the landowners son and points out his uncle at a nearby home. The uncle drives me directly to where he thinks the plot is and wants to get out and look for it. We are less than 400' from the truck and my snake boots are in my truck. He mentions he pulled the tags off the trees that we use to find the plots. I am walking around looking for a base tag on two trees and the landowner nearly steps on a snake. Timber Rattler. Turns out the snake of last week according to my picture research was also a timber rattler. Me and a coworker ended up going back to my second plot and as we were looking for the pin marking plot center in the ground- the SAME darn snake was laying next to one of the tagged trees. 8' from the plot center. My coworker killed it and I brought it out. I plan to turn him into a headstall/breastcollar set.
Todays snake of the day for me- just a water snake in the road thankfully! |
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | My neighbor and I were out walking tonight in a little neighborhood not far from my property. I saw a coral snake and in processing the info, I started saying, "red on yellow kills a fellow; red on black, friend of Jack. She asked why I was reciting nursery rhymes, so I pointed. Then I explained it wasn't a nursery rhyme. This one, thankfully, was dead, so I took a picture to show my 4th graders tomorrow. Too bad they are poisonous because they really are beautiful snakes. personally, I am fascinated by snakes. My husband, on the other hand, is terrified of them. I have to beg him not to kill the nonpoisonous ones.
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| Honeymoney - 2014-05-08 9:12 PM CrossDRanch - 2014-05-08 2:07 PM
putting sulfur out seems to work
Sulfur does work and I have a bag of some kind of rose stuff that is sulfur. I will get it out when it stops raining. This is the second copperhead that has been killed down our road in a week. The other one was in a neighbor's garage. The road is VERY short.
Okay - ummm, I'm going to have an arial spray of sulfur done over my place!  |
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