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If you see a venomous snake, why would you let it live. How would you feel if you left it alone and found out a kid was bitten by one?
 
27145 said:
If you see a venomous snake, why would you let it live. How would you feel if you left it alone and found out a kid was bitten by one?
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because the chances of that kid being bitten by the same snake in this picture floating down a river are slim to none? I would also feel like the kids parents should have taught them a little about snakes.
 
27145 said:
If you see a venomous snake, why would you let it live. How would you feel if you left it alone and found out a kid was bitten by one?
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The odds are much greater that a kid will be killed by one of the thousands of honeybees you see each summer and yet allow to live.

I have no love for venomous snakes, but when you look at the situation rationally rather than emotionally they do more good than harm.

EDIT: for the record, I'm not saying that it's *wrong* to kill a venomous snake, particularly one that happens to find its way into someone's back yard, but by the same token it's not *right* to do so, either.
 
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Been bitten by bees, wasps, and one brown recluse spider. Still have the scar on my leg. for every snake you see there are many that you do not. I've seen pics and once a live cotton mouth over 6' long. They can and do grow to large sizes, usually have seen them in some of the dead end streams cut by the oil companies that do not get much human traffic and therefore almost unmolested. Frank
 
Frailer said:
In all of North America the number of fatalities from snakebite each year averages about 15.
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That stat is worthless. You assume that it is OK to get bitten by a snake as long as you don't die. What about the thousands of snake bites each year that cause pain, permanent tissue damage, and financial burdens? In a recent issue of Wildlife in NC, an article says that if bitten by a poisonous snake in this state, and treaded at a hospital, you can expect to live, and also expect a bill for about $40,000.
 
stiab said:
That stat is worthless. You assume that it is OK to get bitten by a snake as long as you don't die. What about the thousands of snake bites each year that cause pain, permanent tissue damage, and financial burdens? In a recent issue of Wildlife in NC, an article says that if bitten by a poisonous snake in this state, and treaded at a hospital, you can expect to live, and also expect a bill for about $40,000.
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I assume no such thing.

Want to compare the costs of dog bite treatments versus snake bite treatments? The difference is greater than the fatality stats by a couple of orders of magnitude.

As I said, I'm not telling anyone what they should do. If you want to kill every legless reptile you come across, go right ahead. But by the same token no one should tell me that it's better to kill a snake than to let it live--because it isn't.
 
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Frailer said:
Want to compare the costs of dog bite treatments versus snake bite treatments?
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No, I don't. If I wanted to know about such things I would be reading a dog bite thread. There have been plenty of them on this forum and others. This is a snake thread, not a dog thread.
 
Well, as the original poster of this thread, I have run across yet another snake in only two weeks . . . I only hope there's not a third encounter in the near future.

This one has big, black, beedy eyes and an almost chartreuse green coloring the lenth of it's slim body. I went for my early morning run and discovered this slithery beast sunning in my driveway on my way back. Almost stepped on him. Fortunately, I had my camera handy in the car nearby, but he was so small I had to get really close for the macro lens to pick up on him. You can just tell by looking at those devilish eyes that he has wrath and havoc on it's mind for whomever crosses it's path.

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Well if a snake makes to my yard and the SWMBO sees it,it's dead.They're all rattleheadedcoppermocasins to her.Big or small she hates them all.
 
stiab said:
Yep, looks like the dreaded 'Driveway Mamba'. I'd give that one a wide birth for sure.
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The shorter head and big eyes make it more nearly resemble a boomslang. They also tend to be a paler green than mambas, in some specimens. But does it have overtones of a spaceship alien, too? :D
 
.22 Mag in shot shell works great. A lot of experince!!!
I mow with with a revolver on me.

I hate copperheads.

Guy22
 
oldman45 said:
Boat half sunk. Filled up with water so badly that paddling was not an option. They waded out in waist deep water. His wife was mad at him for shooting the snake. He was mad at her for complaining.

Now they laugh about it. Not funny to them back then.
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I still haven't lived down hitting a stump under water, almost flipping the boat and almost dumping wife in the lake, then pull starting motor with it still in gear, motor instintly catches and starts lunging forward and throwing wife out of boat into lake. She still won't go out inthe boat with me 15 years later.
 
GF said:
Wait...What?

So I think that VM guy wouldn't shoot a snake because it reminds him of Justin Beaver....

GF
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i wouldnt harm a snake or any thing else that isnt bothering me. why the propensity for killing?
 
Faulkner's post #1 is a pic of some type of non-poisonous water snake. A really big one at that. --shriek! Stiab's post #55 shows a very poisonous young cottonmouth. Note the black streak behind its eye. --two shrieks and a jump!

A snake will never catch me. I will be running over solid ground and the snake will be crawling through ----. However, a .38 shot cartridge from a 4" Model 10 has worked for me in the past. That is, in those few cases I have stopped running.
 
I know...

...a lot about the Great Dismal Swamp as I worked there for 20 years. Its other name is Washington, DC and it IS full of snakes. Guns aren't allowed there.
 
OLDFED said:
...a lot about the Great Dismal Swamp as I worked there for 20 years. Its other name is Washington, DC and it IS full of snakes. Guns aren't allowed there.
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Unless you're one of the snakes. Then the laws don't apply.
 
I can promise you that the first pic is no Cotton Mouth.
Folks I grew up a snake killer and have had the pleasure of examining dead snakes up close--all kinds.
they are all poison til I kill em----keep your cards and letters---I kill snakes and best I can tell I have not put a dent in the population yet.
Most snakes have a triangular head---but when you see a rattler/Cotton Mouth/Copper Head up close you will never ever take a water snake fop poisonous.
Don't think for a moment a rattlesnake can't swim.
Blessings
 
oldman45 said:
Actually that happened to a local insurance agent. He and his wife were fishing on one of the local lakes and got next to some brush with their boat. A large cottonmouth fell into the floor of the boat. The man promptly shot the snake with his 38spl but it took three shots.

A few words of advice, bullets travel through snakes rather easily. They also make holes in a flat bottom wooden boat. Wooden boats sink faster than one can paddle.
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...grab, toss, and Pray! Not necessarily in that order!!!
 
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