Me No Like

[soFlaNative]

We have a paved road with pump rooms and clarifiers on one side and a well field on the other. 3rd shift supervisor refused to ride that stretch saying he saw a snake. When routine took me that way I found a piece of weather stripping that separated off a hatch.

 

[Tom S.]

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[TX-Dennis]

I don't mind snakes at all. They control the rodent population, and I enjoy observing them. Having said that, I don't want venomous ones near my house. Anywhere else, though, I leave them be.

 

[chaparrito]

Coming home the other day there was a big Bull snake lying in the road. I stopped thinking he'd been run over. Turned out he had just molted and was warming up on the roadway. I encouraged him to move and he slid under my fence and into the pasture, where the barn cat is having a terrible time keeping up with the gophers.
I hope he stays around, the cat needs a partner.

 

[shouldazagged]

I haven't killed a snake in 57 years (it was him or me), despite seeing lots of both venomous and non-venomous ones while fishing and hunting. I might make an exception if I saw a copperhead or rattler here on the grounds of my apartment complex, because we have elderly tenants with small pets and poor vision. Otherwise, no. Live and let live.

Like being up to your glutes in rodents? Kill every snake you see.

Actually I think they're fascinating critters, and most (NOT cottonmouths) are beautiful.

 

[Drm50]

if it doesn't rattle, it must be a copperhead. lee

We have very few if any rattles in SE Ohio. We do have Copper
Heads. Very few of the snakes turn out to be Copper Heads.
99% of the time they are a Rat Snake or Water Snake that are
vaguely similar in color/ pattern. I had a young neighbor ruin
100' of new hose when he blasted a "Copper Head" sunning
on the hose, a common Water Snake. Most people wouldn't
know a Copper Head if it bit them on the butt. Around here if
it's not a Black Snake it has to be a Copper Head.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Some .38 special snake loads in my new to me 19-5 will work.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[LostintheOzone]

No venomous snakes where I live. I try to help them out as much as I can.

Used to live in AZ and I worked as a surveyor. I saw more diamondbacks in a year then a normal person should have to see in a lifetime. Carried a revolver unless we were working in town. Most everyone else I worked with had some type of revolver.

I don't particularly like killing rattlesnakes but a few times I had to. When you find yourself within several feet of one it's best not to move anymore. I found that diamondbacks aren't aggressive, they will move on if you give them enough room. Some other venomous snakes won't however.

 

[ACP230]

No poisonous snakes where I live. That suits me fine.

When I hunted mule deer in Utah, years ago, I looked around
very carefully before sitting down to take a rest.
The guys dad and I were hunting with laughed and said the snakes
were all sleeping the winter away. I figured it would be my luck
to run into one with insomnia.

My son has been working in South Dakota and Nevada and saw a couple of rattlers. Didn't have to kill any yet.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Junior Walker and the all stars said it for me when it comes to vipers.

 

[snubbyfan]

Me not have problems with snakes.
Me just watch where me putum moccasined feet Kemosabe.

 

[islandguy]

Don't much like em, never have, but I get real worried when I don't see one for a while. They are real good indicators of a healthy eco-system in our parts.

 

[Squarebutt]

A friend worked on oil rigs in the California desert, where the temperature was over 100 most days. He said they had to throw rocks at the company truck at quitting time to scatter the rattlers who were relaxing in the shade under the truck.