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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:30 PM
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Saw my first copperhead today. Gonna be a long summer.
I was moving some old logs in an area I want to plow to plant more corn this year. The little bastard (damn, that was James Dean's Porsche Spyder's name!) slithered out between my legs. It was about 18-inches long. I'll take the copperheads. It is the damn timber rattlers I hate (and that will kill a dog). I'm a live-and-let-live guy, but I do kill poisonous snakes on my property. This one lucked out. My hoe was nowhere to be found. Damn hoe!
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:32 PM
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1. Are they poisonous to humans?
I always thought they were, but, then again, I know nothing about snakes. :shrug:
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:36 PM
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4. They are poisonous
Their venom attacks the nervous system.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:48 PM
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8. Oh hell yes!
But they are the least poisonous of the pit vipers. Still, a small snake can cause big problems. Know what I mean Vern?
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DeepGreen Donating Member (572 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:33 PM
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2. Beautiful snake !
thanks for the picture
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:34 PM
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3. Damn. And I'm worried about
June bugs in TX. Readjustment time.

And it was close to summer hot today for me. :scared:
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smbolisnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:37 PM
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5. Beautiful!
Would have scared me to death though! :)
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:41 PM
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6. A question.
Did you smell fresh cut cucumbers when you found it?
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:57 PM
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11. Good damn question, Texas 1928!
I have maintained for years (since my Boy Scout camp days in the early 60s) that I can smell a poisonous snake. A big water moccasin or rattlesnake has a carrion oder to it. I freaked out last summer in my garden smelling that smell. Then I realized it was rotting cabbage. False alarm.

I have never heard of the cucumber smell attached to copperheads. I'll pay more attention now. Last year I had a copperhead in my woodpile, and it did smell slightly of carrion to me.

Snakesters! Hate 'em! Know what I mean, Vern?
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:10 PM
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14. my grandfather told me that one.
I did not beleive him til one day I smelled cucumbers and I started looking and saw it laying in the dead leaves. Nearly jumped out of my skin.
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Ariana Celeste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:47 PM
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7. Ugh...
those things creep me the hell out man...
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:51 PM
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9. Nice snake! :)
I rather like snakes, even the venomous ones. In California, we have a bunch of species of rattlesnakes, but no copperheads or moccasins or coral snakes.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:52 PM
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10. I love snakes! That one's a beauty!
I tend to avoid the poisonous ones when I can, though I will observe them from a safe distance. ...growing up in Georgia is was sometimes hard to avoid rattlers and cottonmouths..
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:08 PM
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13. Solly Mack
I grew up in Griffin, Georgia. Half as big as a New York cemetary, and twice as dead. Know what I mean?
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:11 PM
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15. Oh yeah...hasn't changed either...from the last time I went through there
but that was several years ago.

Atlanta and Gainesville for me....
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:34 PM
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17. Yep. Atlanta.
We lived there too. My wife went to Agnes Scott and then to Ga. Tech for a PhD. We were both in grad school at Tech in the mid-70s.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:07 PM
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12. Cute little fella
Snakes are our friends. Until they get up close and snuggly. Then they must DIE!
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arkie dem Donating Member (279 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:27 PM
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16. I agree with you about the Timber Rattlers
If only they would give you some warning. You think with rattles they would use them. I bought a pair of snake gaiters after an encounter with a Timber Rattlesnake. Most snake bites here in Arkansas are from Copperheads. They seem to be more aggresive than Timber Rattlers. I hear the Timber Rattler venom is quite nasty.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:35 PM
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18. EEEEWWWWW!!!!
Snakes :scared: me.

But I outstared a Chicago rat at about age 4. It ran away in fear...as I ran back to the house from my sandbox.
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