Posted on 02/28/2016 3:42:29 PM PST by Kaslin
I don’t know about now, but they used to be cooked and et.
We didn’t use to release harmful vermin.
That would be rib eye steaks.
I’ve run into a half dozen (at least) Timber Rattlesnakes while out on the trails or doing maintenance work. No super close calls, but close enough to get the adrenaline flowing. I have to confess that the color patterns on Timbers are really beautiful if you have the time to observe them from a safe distance.
In a book I was reading about one of the National Parks (a particular favorite park of mine), the statistics for snake bite showed that most bitten were males in their 20’s, they were bitten on the hand/arm, and alcohol was involved. Why am I not surprised.
I though you was kiddin' us da foist time...
Having grown up on a ranch in Texas I was raised to believe that the only good rattlesnake is a dead rattlesnake. My father was bitten by one. I narrowly missed disaster when a large snake struck at me while we were clearing brush. The snake hit my boot. After dispatching said snake with an aptly named Colt Diamondback revolver, I examined the carcass.
The snake had 14 rattles and was 6 feet 9 inches long.
Pingaling!
To a lot of people, every snake is a “rattlesnake”.
:)
And they taste like chicken
I heard of rib eye steaks, but what is a fib eyr? They must be rare and delicious.
http://www.livescience.com/52286-water-snake-virgin-birth.html
Thank God it isn’t. I wouldn’t have been able to post it. I don’t believe the snake in the picture is poisonous
I would have said a black rat snake. The author must think “rat” is short for “rattle”.
You can say that again. In 1965 we visited my husband's parents who had moved from Upstate New York to Johns County in Florida, which belonged to St Augustine. Their mailing address was Green Cove Springs which is in Clay County We also visited my husband's aunt an uncle who lived in Davenport, FL. They took us to Kissime, and we went to a rattlesnake farm. The snakes were in a pit way below and when you looked over the wall the snakes started to rattle their rattlers. It was creepy and I was glad when we got away from there.
I think I have seen two poisonous snakes in the wild in my lifetime—a rattlesnake and a copperhead (that one possibly asleep)—but have never been bitten. A nature area nearby with hiking trails warns people not to kill any of the wildlife including snakes. Snakes are useful in keeping down the numbers of other pests.
I’ve said before that, compared to a copperhead, the rattlesnake is a gentleman. It warns you first.
Yah, you would not hold a venomous snake that far behind
the head.
Last summer the week after a brown bear came into my kitchen
and stole a bag of tortilla chips off my kitchen counter
and devoured them in my front yard I killed a young
rattlebug next to my front steps. I know they try to avoid
humans but if you accidentally invade their space they will
not accept your apology. Therefore, they are on my hit
list just in front of home invasion bears.
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