re: Snake Identification

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Heard that a water snake bite can give you gangrene?

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So can a Bourbon Street hooer.

The things I've always hated about your standard water snakes are:

1 - when running trot lines at night and them falling down on top of me trying to get at my flashlight in the boat.

2 - not being able to tell if it's a watersnake or a moccasin at night, in the boat, after it's just fallen on your head outta the cypress tree.

3 - having a watersnake come cuddle with me in my fart sack while copping some Zs down by the riverbank in the fall. People think watersnakes hibernate in cold weather. They don't, not really. They just slow down.

4 - getting a $5 casting bait hung up in a bush full of watersnakes and having to go in after my bait alongside the riverbank with a fast current pulling at my boat.

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Water snake - not venomous but if it is like most of its relatives calling it harmless is not accurate either. They will draw blood

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Thank you!

When did drawing a few drops of blood become “harmful”? Is sewing dangerous now because you might prick yourself and draw a little blood? Jesus H. Christ… like I said - the pussification of America. A snake bite hurts less than a bee sting. And a bee sting isn’t harm - it’s a minor inconvenience.

You just need to get bit once to realize that it’s absolutely nothing to be worried about.

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I appreciate your efforts to depussify me and the rest of us

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