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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | I...would....DIE! I was mowing the other day and hit a piece of carpet someone had buried or something, and when I reached to pull it out a little snake fell out! Husband was at work, so I called my dad to come pull it out... Too many copperheads found in our area for me to just grab it! |
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| Same is going on in S. Arizona. We're driving over rattle snakes like speed bumps. My husband called me yesterday freaking out because one was long enough to stretch across one lane on a private road. (about six feet or so) it's going to be a bad year. |
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Location: Phoenix | Holy hell I shiver when I think about cottonmouths and water moccasins.....ahhhh! They CHASE YOU?! I'd pee my pants and scream bloody murder.
I live in AZ and have yet to encounter a scary rattlesnake situation....I did ride by one that was hidden in a little rock cave...3 horses rode past and it woke up as I passed and shook its rattler at me but I just kept going and we were fine. Whew!! |
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Location: Texas | Longneck - 2015-04-13 1:24 PM americanpride08 - 2015-04-13 1:19 PM Longneck - 2015-04-13 1:02 PM Just looking at that picture makes me sick!!! I had chickens last summer (babysitting them for my SIL) and, needless to say, I will never have chickens again!! If you take crushed red pepper and put it around the perimeter of the chicken coop it keeps snakes, coyotes and foxes++ out. just redo it every month
Good luck, Equal... we've been getting so much rain (heck, it's pouring right now and has been for 6-7 hours) I know it's probably just a matter of time.
It rained her ALL weekend! And according to the handy dandy almanac it will be raining all summer too. Which means when it isn't raining the humidity will be 157%  Texas weather is my favorite  |
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What Name?
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| EqualRanch - 2015-04-13 1:19 PM americanpride08 - 2015-04-13 12:57 PM we get a lot of chicken snakes. The water snakes are the worst around here. But only on the river ways and creeks mostly.
Last time I went tubeing.. saw 7 water moccassins an a cotton mouth. I usually just move to the opposite side of the river, and they'll swim downstream opposite me until they find standing reeds or something. Was avoiding one once, and came within a foot of a VERY curious cotton mouth sunning on a rock just outside the water...
I pretty much walked on water for the next 5 mins. Lets just say I wont be tubeing that river anymore, canoeing is where it is at.. big sticks to protect yourself. It's unnerving to be on their level and KNOW they're faster than you.
I would have left that tube behind and grew wings! Lol
To this day, I cannot watch the snake scene in Lonesome Dove without screaming and/or crying!
ETA: My boys find it absolutely hilarious that I "freak out" because of snakes in a movie.
I've actually seen a ball of snakes like that in the water... lets just say I plum cleared out. pretty sure I did grow wings at that point. And that scene gets me too!
Funny thing, snakes dont bother me unless they're venomous. Water snakes scare me to death though. Had one crawl up in a boat after me once... LOL and I'm going to school to be a zoologist. Lets just say I'm gonna work with the furry creatures. NOT the reptiles. |
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| hammer_time - 2015-04-13 1:31 PM Holy hell I shiver when I think about cottonmouths and water moccasins.....ahhhh! They CHASE YOU?! I'd pee my pants and scream bloody murder.
I live in AZ and have yet to encounter a scary rattlesnake situation....I did ride by one that was hidden in a little rock cave...3 horses rode past and it woke up as I passed and shook its rattler at me but I just kept going and we were fine. Whew!!
Most water snakes are EXTREMELY aggressive. and have been known to chase people, climb in boats, ect..
If they're around water at my house, they did. We frog gig a lot, and we kill a bunch of babies. Thank god for thigh high rubber boots! |
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Location: Texas | Riden and Hammer, rattlesnakes make my skin crawl and my mouth scream! I have been STANDING on a rattlesnake in our arena, just chatting away, and never even felt, heard or saw him! |
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| EqualRanch - 2015-04-14 11:40 AM Riden and Hammer, rattlesnakes make my skin crawl and my mouth scream! I have been STANDING on a rattlesnake in our arena, just chatting away, and never even felt, heard or saw him!
They terrify me too. I cautiously enter the hay barn every time. I am putting in a garden and I keep telling the kids to be extremely careful. Its un-nerving but you kind of get used to being on guard. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | EqualRanch - 2015-04-13 1:34 PM Oh my. I would have to sell or burn my house if I ever saw a snake inside.
They had triangular heads and were fat snakes! Guess they've been eating good 
Triangle heads and short fat tails - water mocassions. An easy way for a person to tell if they are posionious is to look at your thumb. If the head looks like you thumb not posionious. Put your pointer finger and thumbs together both hands and it will be the triangle.
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| 3canstorun - 2015-04-13 1:46 PM EqualRanch - 2015-04-13 1:34 PM Oh my. I would have to sell or burn my house if I ever saw a snake inside.
They had triangular heads and were fat snakes! Guess they've been eating good
Agree with this. and thats one heck of a moccassin |
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Location: Missouri | Oh my gosh! I'd wet myself if I saw a cluster of snakes at my barn like that!
I was JUST getting ready to go outside and do my Barn chores before I read this (I'm a SAHM.) and now I'm Remembering that our pitchfork broke last summer and hubby has yet to get me another. So uh...nope. I'll just wait til hubby is home from work.
The first summer we lived at our house was 2013...the fields and yard were SO unkept. The people who lived here before us didn't believe in mowing or weed eating bc it puts emissions in the air...ugh. So we got a great deal bc the land was such a mess. But you can imagine the SNAKES! We saw multiple 5 plus foot king snakes, at least 5 adult copper heads and too many babies to count. I almost grabbed a black snake once while pulling apart hay in the barn. Stepped on a baby copper head, didn't realize what it was in time to crush it (I had boots on). Not to mention...snakes on our front porch, in our garage, my husband caught 3 babies in traps in the basement, and oh...a baby copperhead IN MY KITCHEN! Needless to say I was late for work that day and was sitting on my counter screaming. Sad that the people didn't take care of things, we have a cute little place. We still have snakes of course but not NEAR as bad now that we've cleaned things up. Ugh |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | americanpride08 - 2015-04-13 12:57 PM
we get a lot of chicken snakes. The water snakes are the worst around here. But only on the river ways and creeks mostly.
Last time I went tubeing.. saw 7 water moccassins an a cotton mouth. I usually just move to the opposite side of the river, and they'll swim downstream opposite me until they find standing reeds or something. Was avoiding one once, and came within a foot of a VERY curious cotton mouth sunning on a rock just outside the water...
I pretty much walked on water for the next 5 mins. Lets just say I wont be tubeing that river anymore, canoeing is where it is at.. big sticks to protect yourself. It's unnerving to be on their level and KNOW they're faster than you.
Cottonmouth and water moccasin are two names for the same snake, lol. I don't mind snakes, but, yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to be in the water with them!
I'm glad I saw this post, it's a good reminder to watch where I'm walking and wear my boots. |
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| equal ranch & south pony girl - same here at our house we kill 7 or 8 rattlesnakes every year in the areas that we keep mowed. Always on the look out for snakes since they are so plentiful and keep several hoes at different spots all on the property. Several years ago I had killed 4 in one week and had to take a stress test, they kept telling me to look at the picture on the wall not the ground in front of me and had to tell me several different times, finally she said please mam just look up I am sure you don't walk around looking down all the time. I said actually I DO !! |
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Location: Florida | Tonight I went our to collect the eggs and there was rat snake where the eggs should be. I guess I got mad because I had in my hand a smallish stainless steel mixing bowl that had been in the chilcken cage. Must have fed them some leftover in it. I attacked the snake with it. He was only about 4 feet long, but he got mad, but I got madder. I don't know if he survived or not because he started really striking so I left him. Hope he won't come back, he got all my eggs!
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Location: Texas | jbw tx mom - 2015-04-13 4:48 PM equal ranch & south pony girl - same here at our house we kill 7 or 8 rattlesnakes every year in the areas that we keep mowed. Always on the look out for snakes since they are so plentiful and keep several hoes at different spots all on the property. Several years ago I had killed 4 in one week and had to take a stress test, they kept telling me to look at the picture on the wall not the ground in front of me and had to tell me several different times, finally she said please mam just look up I am sure you don't walk around looking down all the time. I said actually I DO !!
LOL!!!! I will definitely see those little boogers before they see me.
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| I would ****. Lol |
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| I meant s**t. Dumb thing. Lol |
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| Nita - 2015-04-13 4:36 PM americanpride08 - 2015-04-13 12:57 PM we get a lot of chicken snakes. The water snakes are the worst around here. But only on the river ways and creeks mostly.
Last time I went tubeing.. saw 7 water moccassins an a cotton mouth. I usually just move to the opposite side of the river, and they'll swim downstream opposite me until they find standing reeds or something. Was avoiding one once, and came within a foot of a VERY curious cotton mouth sunning on a rock just outside the water...
I pretty much walked on water for the next 5 mins. Lets just say I wont be tubeing that river anymore, canoeing is where it is at.. big sticks to protect yourself. It's unnerving to be on their level and KNOW they're faster than you. Cottonmouth and water moccasin are two names for the same snake, lol. I don't mind snakes, but, yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to be in the water with them! I'm glad I saw this post, it's a good reminder to watch where I'm walking and wear my boots.
Huh I didn't notice I put cotton mouth. I meant copper head. Big brown suckers. They're mean lookin too. I swear rattlers and other venomous snakes just look mean to me. Boas don't look nearly that terrifying |
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I Am a Snake Killer
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | I am ready! I already have my shovels strategically placed at the barn! Although I have killed them with hammers, fence posts, barrels and just about whatever is convenient! Also remember if you see a full grown copperhead there is probably a mate close by. |
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Location: Mississippi | Yes, they are really out due to all the rain right now. My good horse was bitten 3 weeks ago. We guess it was while he was out in the pasture. Terrible swelling & lameness. The actual bite area blew out & then rotted the tissue around it. He is recovering & will be OK, but I sure do hate that he had to go through that. I HATE snakes...all of them. |
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