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Pest control

JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
This guy (Black Rat Snake) has lived on our property longer than we've owned it.

I'm very glad to see him still around, especially after that Copper Head came by one day last summer.

:eek:

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[IMG]http://www.psychobabyl.com/misc/RS2.jpg[/IMG]

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Comments

  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Yes, the best way to deal with mice and chipmunks :)
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i]
    [B]Yes, the best way to deal with mice and chipmunks :) [/B][/QUOTE]

    ...and Copperheads...

    :)
  • shadow boxershadow boxer The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
    you guys are so lucky to have snakes that aren't all deadly...:D
  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    I'd be afraid that I would wake up one morning with that looking me in the face.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    They're mostly harmless (so long as you don't go trying to get yourself bit).

    One fell on my dad while he was in the shed one time...it promptly slithered off him and out the shed.

    Another time we were busy rescuing duck eggs from the snake...the snake won out eventually, though.
  • Space GhostSpace Ghost Elite Ranger
    Be that as it may, I'm with Indiana Jones on this one... "I hate snakes, Jock". :D
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by shadow boxer [/i]
    [B]you guys are so lucky to have snakes that aren't all deadly...:D [/B][/QUOTE]

    Tennessee specifically has 32 varieties, 4 of which are venomous:

    Copper Head
    Cotton Mouth
    Timber Rattler
    Pigmy Rattler

    All of the pit viper family.

    Copper Heads are the scariest to deal with. Most deadly of the 4 and most agressive.

    Black (Rat) Snakes are very territorial, and are good to have to keep other snakes away.

    :)
  • sataicallistasataicallista High Priestess of Squeee!
    Oh wow, it's beautiful! I'm very nervous about poisonous snakes, but at the same time, I love the way snakes look and feel and move. They are amazingly beautiful creatures.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I'm quite happy living in a country that has zero snakes.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Its about the same here Biggles, our most poisonous snake is about as deadly as a wasp.. ;)

    But Im happy to see you use the environment as it should be Jack. Instead of spraying the garden with rat poison (as I know many do), this is the absolutely best way to deal with them.. :)
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    But the problem with biggles is that instead of snakes, New Zealand has many of the Woolskin Sheep. Don't get tricked by their innocent appearance and blind stares, the woolskin Sheep is the most deadly creature that side of the world. It'll bite you with it's big..pointy..teeth! *mimes the woolskin sheep's bite*
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    And don't forget the hobbits.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    This be the fu**er that came passing by while under the Jeep doing an Oil Change last summer...

    Copper Head
    [i]From: [url]www.kentuckysnakes.org[/url][/i]
    [IMG]http://www.kentuckysnakes.org/snakes/copperhead-full.jpg[/IMG]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    This is the guy we found in our kyack last year:
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    We also had a fellow similar to the following that I found hopping around my kitchen. It's about 1 inch long.

    Not sure where it got in...or why it wanted to :).


    Green tree frog
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Yeah, them Water Snakes can fool you...

    Some of them look like a Copper Head at first glance, until you look at the shape of the patterns.

    Water Snake
    [i]From: [url]www.kentuckysnakes.org[/url][/i]
    [IMG]http://www.kentuckysnakes.org/snakes/watersnakenorth-full.jpg[/IMG]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Yeah. Plus water snakes are a good deal fatter. And we saw one later devouring an eel. I don't think Copperheads can catch eels.

    See, we are a family where giving Amphibians and Reptiles of Delmarva and a guide to catapillars (name forgotten) to my mom for presents is greeted happily :)
  • shadow boxershadow boxer The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
    I have a bad habit of channeling Irwin when it comes to snakes, I do like to catch 'em.

    Even rattlers...

    dumb ?

    yes.

    fun ?

    yes.

    totally fucking stupid ?

    not quite.

    I was lucky enough to be out and about at dawn in Arizona. It was still so cool that said snake was still very torpid and slow. Ok, so no snake is really slow, but when they are cold... they get down to a catchable speed.

    She, was not a happy snake. Atleast I was around that day, otherwise she would have eaten some number 6 shot from my friends 12ga. I caught her, bagged her and took her way out into the boonies and let her go.

    Only thing that fucked me off was a lack of camera at the time. Four feet of nice rattler, more than long enough for a belt..:D
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