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Snake Killing (vanity - sorry)
me | Sep 29. 2011 | me

Posted on 09/29/2011 11:44:19 AM PDT by matginzac

So I just killed a Copperhead Snake in my front yard. I'm still shaking and it's still writhing. Thing is there were two, one in line behind the other. When I came back with the shovel, the "first" one in line had "disappeared". Where do you think it went and what do I do about it? (Please keep it relatively clean) I HATE snakes!


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KEYWORDS: snake
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To: matginzac

The other snake is on the Genesis planet, saying.....”You human bastard.....you.....killed.....my son.”


21 posted on 09/29/2011 11:53:23 AM PDT by edpc (Former Normalcy Bias Victim)
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To: massgopguy

Thanks a bunch. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get snorted Pepsi out of all the little cracks and crevices of a cell phone? LOL


22 posted on 09/29/2011 11:54:16 AM PDT by nodumbblonde ("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
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To: matginzac

I bet they were waiting to get on a plane!


23 posted on 09/29/2011 11:54:30 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: houeto

Oh yeah...
and when it’s head was cut off, it showed me it’s great big FANGS!!!!


24 posted on 09/29/2011 11:54:32 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: matginzac

Leave the damned snakes alone.


25 posted on 09/29/2011 11:54:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: matginzac
Get yourself some of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampropeltis_getula_holbrooki

They'll kill copperheads.

26 posted on 09/29/2011 11:54:57 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Former Fetus

I get a ton of big, black rat snakes under my house. I wouldn’t mind them so much except:

1) Snake urates STINK! Problem is - snake repellent stinks more.

2) We had one climb up through the walls and get into the attic. Took me, like, three hours of hunting and poking up there before I finally caught the thing making all that noise in the insulation.

I don’t kill ‘em, though. I catch them and carry them off into the woods, across the stream.

Copperheads I would kill on sight in my yard. I have a 2 year old and five year old. Not going to risk their safety!


27 posted on 09/29/2011 11:55:21 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: matginzac

I killed a copperhead around a year ago. The next day I saw another in the same spot. They must travel in pairs.

I had not seen a copperhead around here in nearly 50 years. I knew it was a venomous snake by it’s head and eye shape. I thought it had to be a copperhead as I had eliminated the others. I looked it up on the computer and sure enough it was a classic Southern copperhead in appearance.

I would just keep an eye out for the other one. It probably will just disappear.


28 posted on 09/29/2011 11:56:54 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: nagdt

I’m getting “Snake Away” ASAP!


29 posted on 09/29/2011 11:57:21 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: LearsFool

Plain garden sulfur powder works to keep snakes out as well.

Couple of bucks for a few pounds.


30 posted on 09/29/2011 11:57:38 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: matginzac

They were likely mates. Bury the dead one, and just occasionally check the area for the second one. It should stick around and look for it’s mate.


31 posted on 09/29/2011 11:58:17 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: matginzac
Thing is there were two, one in line behind the other

Sounds like you broke up a wonderful snake romance.

In about 90 days, you'll have lots of little fatherless snakes looking for their daddy.

32 posted on 09/29/2011 11:59:01 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Fast & Furious , Solyndra & Light Squared would be enough to impeach any White President !!)
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To: matginzac

I’ve had the same thing happen to me. So now I never trust that a snake is dead until I’ve decapitated it.

The body will continue writhing and rattling (rattlesnakes where I live) for a few minutes even without the head. But I’ve never had a headless snake return seeking revenge. :-)


33 posted on 09/29/2011 11:59:21 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: matginzac

Read “Rikki Tikki Tavi” by Kipling and watch your back.

Colonel, USAFR


34 posted on 09/29/2011 11:59:54 AM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: matginzac

It went back inside the White House!!!


35 posted on 09/29/2011 12:00:18 PM PDT by Forrestfire (("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
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To: Former Fetus

These guys were in front of our garage which is slab and two story - the rest of the house is on a graded, sloping to a creek - hmmm - crawl space...
We have a creek next to the house and a stream way back of the house but this is the first time in 6 years we’ve had copper heads...


36 posted on 09/29/2011 12:00:24 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: matginzac

My hubby beheaded one in the yard with a shovel last summer, the body kept writhing for a long while & freaked me out!


37 posted on 09/29/2011 12:00:37 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: Stevenc131

We’ve had lots of rain and muggy weather which has caused (never seen this before...) little, tiny frogs to “hatch” and they are hopping around every where...I think this is what has brought these nasty things so close...UGH!


38 posted on 09/29/2011 12:02:23 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: matginzac

Copperheads can be very aggressive. We have them in our mountains. Taurus Judge with .410 shot gun shell with 8 shot is a good repellent


39 posted on 09/29/2011 12:03:01 PM PDT by cork
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To: matginzac

“Dr. Freud?...Dr. Freud”?...


40 posted on 09/29/2011 12:03:45 PM PDT by Inwoodian
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