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re: How to properly kill a rattlesnake
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:57 pm to SEClint
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:57 pm to SEClint
I actually enjoy herpetology as a hobby, and I keep a lizard as a pet. Never really gotten into keeping snakes, but I like reading about them and watching them. I've never been able to relate to people's fear and hatred of them. I don't see why people want to go out of their way to kill something that isn't bothering them. But whatever I guess.
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Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:58 pm to Ingeniero
I'd kill a venomous snake near where people lived or were likely to go but why kill a snake out in the middle of nowhere? That's HIS house.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:58 pm to SEClint
How did he pin the head down to grab it? I figured it would start striking if he got close enough.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 2:59 pm to Peazey
I'm normally not afraid of snakes i can see. it's being in the high grass or water with them that makes me a little uneasy.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:04 pm to LSUBFA83
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I'd kill a venomous snake near where people lived or were likely to go but why kill a snake out in the middle of nowhere? That's HIS house.
You just going to leave it there for somebody else to get bit by? Nah, kill them all. They'll learn to hide from humans or they'll go extinct. That's how natural selection works.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:05 pm to SEClint
I understand that I don't want to be bitten by a rattlesnake. If that makes me a coward then so be it. I don't understand quantum physics, but it won't bite me either.
I don't kill non poisonous snakes.
And sick burn on the grammar check.
I don't kill non poisonous snakes.
And sick burn on the grammar check.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:06 pm to LSUBFA83
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That's HIS house.
you sound like a liberal chick i knew who got upset at me tossing the jellyfish onto the beach in FLA.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:06 pm to CaptainsWafer
only good snake is a dead snake
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:07 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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GoCrazyAuburn
Holy Hand Grenade FTW.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:07 pm to Peazey
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I actually enjoy herpetology as a hobby, and I keep a lizard as a pet. Never really gotten into keeping snakes, but I like reading about them and watching them
Have a friend who keeps non-venomous. He used to keep lizards and geckos, said he wishes that he had gotten his boas and pythons earlier.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:09 pm to CaptainsWafer
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I don't kill non venomous snakes.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:09 pm to SEClint
Damn. Quoted AND bolded twice in one thread. I must me slipping.
Or slithering.
Or slithering.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:12 pm to Ingeniero
My uncle (two tours in Vietnam) after a day of beer drinking on Toledo Bend would grab Cottonmouths by the tail and swing them around and slam their neck on the tailgate of his truck.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:15 pm to Huey Lewis
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Nah, kill them all. They'll learn to hide from humans or they'll go extinct. That's how natural selection works.
Nah, that's how you damage ecosystems. Bears, wolves, moose, hippos and more are potentially just as if not more dangerous to humans. That doesn't mean that it is our duty to eradicate all life and deliberately damage the balance of nature.
This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:16 pm to CaptainsWafer
I'm just fricking with you on that one. Given you have no ulcers, you can actually drink snake venom and be alright. When it is injected into the bloodstream, that is when it becomes an issue.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:24 pm to SEClint
Yea I know it's all in good fun. I upvoted.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:35 pm to Ingeniero
While watching the link in the OP, there was this recommendation:
Snake bites man trying to kiss it
And guess what: he's from Florida.
Snake bites man trying to kiss it
And guess what: he's from Florida.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:44 pm to LSUBFA83
quote:What's the problem? The house is still there.
That's HIS house.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:49 pm to Ingeniero
my uncle catches them with a stick with a loop on the end, then he puts them in a deep freezer. AThen he encases them in a plastic resin. Really cool. If I bring people over, he will almost always put a frozen rattlesnake by the toilet and if you fall asleep he puts them on you.
Gets everyone.
Gets everyone.
Posted on 10/7/16 at 4:06 pm to Ingeniero
In the 11 years I've lived in my current house I've killed four rattlers, three in the front yard and one in the garage- a smaller immature snake but was coiled up and ready to strike when I walked by it wearing flipflops while taking trash out to the road. I pin them down with a garden rake and chop of their heads. You're not supposed to kill them but rattlers are very territorial and always come back.
A good old boy from my hometown in Wisconsin owns a pest removal business here in Scottsdale and caught this bad boy about 1.5 years ago in some old lady's backyard yard. It measured out at 6'5" and he said he has caught a 7-footer. I'm not at all afraid of rattlers but if I saw one that big in my yard my house would be on the block the next day and I would be back in the midwest ASAP.
A good old boy from my hometown in Wisconsin owns a pest removal business here in Scottsdale and caught this bad boy about 1.5 years ago in some old lady's backyard yard. It measured out at 6'5" and he said he has caught a 7-footer. I'm not at all afraid of rattlers but if I saw one that big in my yard my house would be on the block the next day and I would be back in the midwest ASAP.
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