Ross stepped on this guy yesterday and got quite the scare!
Yikes! Glad to see a prism pole through it now....
The polar vortex did not do its job worth a darn in your neck of the woods.
Scared the poor guy so bad his knees tried to jump out of his pants.
This time of year we see the baby snakes crawling around, so I would assume momma is around too.
Poor Little Guy!
Poor little snake! I get 'em all the time around here. They warn me in plenty of time and I step around 'em. I'm happy to share the yard with them, but I draw the line at letting 'em in the house. Same for scorpions and such. I've escorted countless scorpions, centipedes and even a couple of non-poisonous, tiny snakes out of my house.
Dave
Hey, that's a good snake. I can tell by the prism pole protruding through his cranium.
Poor Little Guy!
> Poor little snake! I get 'em all the time around here. They warn me in plenty of time and I step around 'em. I'm happy to share the yard with them, but I draw the line at letting 'em in the house. Same for scorpions and such. I've escorted countless scorpions, centipedes and even a couple of non-poisonous, tiny snakes out of my house.
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> Dave
You will say that until you are faced with the decision of spending $3000 of a vet bill or rolling the dice on losing your beloved pet. My brother did it both ways. First the vet, then rolling the dice. Little tiny dog made it through getting bit on the nose twice.
Not all rattlesnakes around here even rattle. I have stepped over several that didn't rattle until I messed with them.
Poor Little Guy!
Actually, about two weeks ago, I took Charlie, a small Lhasa Apso, out for a midnight stroll in the moonlight. (We do that a lot.) As soon as I heard the rattle, we both stepped back from a largish rattlesnake. We circled around him and continued our walk. I didn't have my phone with me or I would have taken a picture of him. Snakes don't freak me out.
Around here, the snakes are courteous and the dogs are snake-saavy. (And all the women are beautiful and children are above-average.)
Dave
Poor Little Guy!
Oh ya forgot, my daughter's dog got snake bit last year as well. It was prescribed to lay down in a cool place and wait out the venom.
My oldest dog had a high pitched bark that I recognized when he saw a rattle snake.
He felt it was his duty to keep the snake corralled until I could get there to take care of it.
We are not scared about snakes, but there are dens near the houses and it seems wise to keep their numbers down to reduce the chance of a little kid getting bit.
I seem to remember that the typical rattle snake bite costs something like $170,000 to treat. No thank you.
Unintended Consequences
I seem to recall reading that in certain parts of the country rattlesnakes are losing their predisposition to rattle as a warning not to disturb them as all of the suckers that do are promptly removed from the gene pool.
Another unintended consequence of killing these guys on sight is the role they play in keeping down rodent populations which are carriers of amongst other things, the black plague and hantavirus, which I can assure you are far more life threatening and expensive to treat.
Thanks Dave for your live and let live attitude. Of course I don't have to worry about snakes because we got none. Ha!
Unintended Consequences
> Another unintended consequence of killing these guys on sight is the role they play in keeping down rodent populations which are carriers of amongst other things, the black plague and hantavirus, which I can assure you are far more life threatening and expensive to treat.
> Of course I don't have to worry about snakes because we got none. Ha!
With all due respect - horse hockey! 😉
Get back to me when you have the critters on your front porch and the kids are running around in the dark playing with their cousins.
Rattlesnakes only eat 1 or 2 rodents a month during the summer. I won't be losing sleep about the plague and hanta-virus because we have many areas that have no rattlesnakes and the world still keeps turning.
I appreciate the snakes, and they are welcome to the poison oak infected creeks, where no man but a surveyor (or miner) would travel.
Unintended Consequences
Just playing devil's advocate with you digger. 😉
I wouldn't want any kid getting bit either. 😐
ummm....let me guess. You're not in Buffalo NY.
