Posted on 09/29/2011 11:44:19 AM PDT by matginzac
The other snake is on the Genesis planet, saying.....”You human bastard.....you.....killed.....my son.”
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
I bet they were waiting to get on a plane!
Oh yeah...
and when it’s head was cut off, it showed me it’s great big FANGS!!!!
Leave the damned snakes alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampropeltis_getula_holbrooki
They'll kill copperheads.
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!
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.
I’m getting “Snake Away” ASAP!
Plain garden sulfur powder works to keep snakes out as well.
Couple of bucks for a few pounds.
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.
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.
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. :-)
Read “Rikki Tikki Tavi” by Kipling and watch your back.
Colonel, USAFR
It went back inside the White House!!!
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...
My hubby beheaded one in the yard with a shovel last summer, the body kept writhing for a long while & freaked me out!
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!
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
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