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    Island Godfather NA4BH's Avatar
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    FIRST SNAKE FATALITY of the YEAR

    The first little slithering bastid found the end of a shovel last night. As far as what kind it was, it's a dead one. DED!! I hope this isn't a sign of a bumper crop of them this year.
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    No, snake season started early.
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    We don't have problems with snakes in this neck of the woods.... occasionally problems with the odd bear ....and even odder cougar (the four legged variety ....not the ones with bad lipstick)
    Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!

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    Quote Originally Posted by VE7DCW View Post
    We don't have problems with snakes in this neck of the woods.... occasionally problems with the odd bear ....and even odder cougar (the four legged variety ....not the ones with bad lipstick)

    What do you do with the even ones?
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    Quote Originally Posted by VE7DCW View Post
    We don't have problems with snakes in this neck of the woods.... occasionally problems with the odd bear ....and even odder cougar (the four legged variety ....not the ones with bad lipstick)
    Similarly here, bears in my compost heap, coyotes in the neighborhood, the occasional fisher and fox.
    Biggest cat around here is probably bobcat, but meanest is my cat Scurvy - she attacks snakes and chews off their heads, a practice which she started as a kitten, (on baby snakes, of course).

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    Quote Originally Posted by NA4BH View Post
    The first little slithering bastid found the end of a shovel last night. As far as what kind it was, it's a dead one. DED!! I hope this isn't a sign of a bumper crop of them this year.
    you've got to shoot them in the head. Then they make for good eating.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    what did the snake ever do to you?

    poor snake. the snakes civil rights have been violated
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    I've only found two rattlers so far this year. I try to catch them and turn them loose in the wash. They tend to keep the pack rats in check. The snakes don't mess with my truck but the rats sure love to eat on the wires. The bastids.
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    I see snakes around here every great once in a while. If it's a rattler, I'll catch it then call animal control. They'll come and relocate it to a place more suitable for a venomous snake than a populous suburban neighborhood. If it's anything else, I just leave it alone.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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