Posted on 01/18/2014 4:16:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
I knew the reflexes lasted long after death but did not know how long.
Every professional rattle snake handler I’ve ever seen always says “That snake is just as dangerous dead as it is alive.” One showed a hell of a scare where he scraped his arm against a fang.
Herpetologists are reptile experts and usually snake catchers.
Ok, my question is, when a King snake eats a rattle snake, how long does the rattler keep trying to get out after it is dead?
You have to crush the head of the snake.
Oh, I remember you, you’re all right. She’s all right!
To Have and Have Not...
It is the followup to cash in on the success of Casablanca.
Slim: You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing.
Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.
16 minutes, couldn’t he have stopped for a glass of lemonade?
So I’m fighting this hydra and I cut off the head. It just got worse from there.
Make certain it doesn’t bite your heel.
It’s page 121, under ‘charmers’.
Good for your Dad, he has a great mindset.
Some snakes are territorial and will seek you to attack you in their “space”. When that space happens to be a porch where one steps out of the house, they become targets of proper removal.
You use a hoe, and cut its head off.
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Why would you cut a Ho’s head off after using?
one thing I loved about VT was no poisonous snakes.
Really? Is that in Australia? Snake-Away comes to mind off hand - every council would have the number of a local snake catcher! Most pest eradication companies will have a herpetologist’s phone number!
Mel
Yep - I am not sure but I think the red-bellied black snake this guy killed was probably protected - but it may differ from State to State. I killed a brown many years ago as I could not get it to leave my front step to my house. I would drag it out with a very long pole and it would go straight back to my welcome mat - with the kids due home from school and my dog going nuts I had to dispatch the poor thing. We lived in that house 7 years and every year had at least 1 brown snake (that we saw) mostly they were just moving through!
It seems a majority of snakes in Australia are venomous! Most are not naturally vicious though. My wife stepped on a Brown once - just flicking it with her shoe - the snake just gave her a nasty look and kept on going. She did not see it and got jelly legs when I told her what had just happened. We were bushwalking once when one came down the side of the hill onto the track just as I was taking a step. I froze my step in mid air and as it went under my leg it turned it’s head and looked me in the eye LOL.
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