Do you fear snakes!

[Daddymac]

Killed these two within a few days of each other in the same general area. Most snakes get a pass with me, especially a King snake, but if they have fangs and venom and I have a method, they are going down.

 

[Webster]

No not at all but to make a statement like that insinuates I am a totally irresponsible person with no regard to the environment.
The media would have you believe that the entire problem is from individuals who released animals into the wild but in reality part of the problem arrised from when the hurricane went through and properties were damaged that had allowed the snakes and reptiles to get loose.
So in fact it was a combination of the 2.
The snakes I bred averaged 5-6 ft in length so are little threat to anything bigger than a small rabbit and even if I did turn them loose here in SC the would never survive any winter Temps.
So clearly you and the other poster know little to none about reptiles other than what you've heard from the media.

Are you saying there are no snakes surviving in Northern Ohio because we have cold winters. There used to be rattlesnakes in Ohio. The Massasauga rattler is still here in small numbers. A guess pythons are tropical whatever that means.

 

[20PPC]

No rattlesnakes and copperhead can survive quite well in cold weather going into a dormant period similar to frogs.
Constrictors do not have that ability to totally shut down like

Are you saying there are no snakes surviving in Northern Ohio because we have cold winters. There used to be rattlesnakes in Ohio. The Massasauga rattler is still here in small numbers. A guess pythons are tropical whatever that means.

other reptiles and amphibians.

 

[ebb]

My friend and neighbor Greg was the herpetologist at lion country safari for several years. He has a group of snake rescuers and when they get a call the run to the scena and do their thing. They got a call in one of the western suburbs of Miami. somehow got there first and he and his crew pulled a python for under a house that the news and FWC said was 18 feet long. Neighbors had said many dogs and cats had gone missing for the past several years. I saw Greg's pictures if I had to guess I would say it was at least 18 feet and huge in diameter. Hurricane or not the FWC issued permits and collected fees and provided zero oversite after collecting the fees. The prevented proper hunting of the snakes, believing the snake hunters would be using the snake hunt as a way to really allow them to hunt deer (FWC believes deer hunters have a blood lust that they cannot control) out of season. For many years they ignored the issue till it is totally out of control. I have property northwest of Daytona and am glad to know it is safe, put that does nothing for the state south of there. FWC may not have released the pythons, but they have been pitiful in their response and have made a fixable problem into one that is unfixable.

 

[Leeman]

Are you saying there are no snakes surviving in Northern Ohio because we have cold winters. There used to be rattlesnakes in Ohio. The Massasauga rattler is still here in small numbers. A guess pythons are tropical whatever that means.

Between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, lines of latitude 23 degrees North and 23 degrees South of the Equator. A resident between those areas would be classed as from the 'Tropics'

 

[30378]

I'm out in Telegraph Tx which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It's too far to a hospital to take a chance. I feed every one of them I see a helping of fire breathing 12ga. I do not discriminate due to the color of their skin!!

 

[butchlambert]

I'm out in Telegraph Tx which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It's too far to a hospital to take a chance. I feed every one of them I see a helping of fire breathing 12ga. I do not discriminate due to the color of their skin!!

Pretty good deer country!

 

[Lucky Shooter]

I didn't realize how many people were afraid of snakes.

I grew up in SE MS and there were plenty of the poisonous variety
in that area-----cottonmouths were a dime a dozen, diamondbacks
weren't unusual and there were also some copperheads.

I learned very early to keep my eyes on the ground where I walked but in spite of my caution, I was struck at and missed by a diamondback, had the cuff of my pants hit by a cottonmouth and smeared cottonmouth all over my boot.

I simply don't give a pass to the viper brands and have been criticised by
quite a few people over this attitude---all can say is----you play your game
and I'll play mine. I've seen the after effects of a cottonmouth bite and it
was very bad.

Be alert----and quick.

A. Weldy

 

[Downeast]

Oh, did I mention that I'm really in fear of two legged snakes that can show up anywhere and nabbed your butt before you even know they are there.

 

[D Coots]

My friend and neighbor Greg was the herpetologist at lion country safari for several years. He has a group of snake rescuers and when they get a call the run to the scena and do their thing. They got a call in one of the western suburbs of Miami. somehow got there first and he and his crew pulled a python for under a house that the news and FWC said was 18 feet long. Neighbors had said many dogs and cats had gone missing for the past several years. I saw Greg's pictures if I had to guess I would say it was at least 18 feet and huge in diameter. Hurricane or not the FWC issued permits and collected fees and provided zero oversite after collecting the fees. The prevented proper hunting of the snakes, believing the snake hunters would be using the snake hunt as a way to really allow them to hunt deer (FWC believes deer hunters have a blood lust that they cannot control) out of season. For many years they ignored the issue till it is totally out of control. I have property northwest of Daytona and am glad to know it is safe, put that does nothing for the state south of there. FWC may not have released the pythons, but they have been pitiful in their response and have made a fixable problem into one that is unfixable.

That is the first time I've ever heard of the DNR of any State doing something stupid....

 

[jds holler]

I fear no snake. Heck, I bit the head offa this one. jd

 

[ChristianSilver]

 

[Kevin57]

We have horses and grandchildren on our acreage...I fair number of all kinds of snakes. Rats down by the creek, at least I think so. Poisonous snakes get a blast, we give the non-venomous ones a pass. We have seen a fair number of large Coral snakes lately. I think I need a hat band. We have several owls and a bunch of Red-tailed Hawks that help out too.

 

[ISS]

Somewhere in my stash of RVN photos is one of a big, B-I-G python my team ran across on recon. He surprised us and wrapped the ATL (asst team leader) around one leg just before the Team Leader put two hardball .45's between his eyes from a foot away.
Cobras and Kraits were the dangerous ones. Kraits we found were about as big around as your thumb and 2-3 feet long. They called them 3-step Charlies, because if one bit you, you had about enough time to take 3 steps before you hit the ground and said "goodby Charlie...".

 

[ISS]

Tastes like chicken!

 

[Coonman300]

Under a bushhog

Wow! I had a similar experience but it was just 1 female with a batch.

 

[Heavy Metal 1]

My mother had a snake phobia so intense she couldn't even stand to see them on TV. Snakes don't bother me at all. There are lots of snakes where I live, but I don't even really think about them when I am in the woods or out on the river banks fishing. I use a walking stick that I thump the ground with as I go and I rarely encounter them. I have read that the snakes can feel the vibrations from that and will slither away from that.

 

[DShortt]

Under a bushhog

OMG.

I'll never look at a brushhog the same again.

And here I thought a wasps nest was a bad deal.

 

[DShortt]

No not at all but to make a statement like that insinuates I am a totally irresponsible person with no regard to the environment.
The media would have you believe that the entire problem is from individuals who released animals into the wild but in reality part of the problem arrised from when the hurricane went through and properties were damaged that had allowed the snakes and reptiles to get loose.
So in fact it was a combination of the 2.
The snakes I bred averaged 5-6 ft in length so are little threat to anything bigger than a small rabbit and even if I did turn them loose here in SC the would never survive any winter Temps.
So clearly you and the other poster know little to none about reptiles other than what you've heard from the media.

Uh, huh.

And Bradford Pear trees are sterile and Bighead Carp can't survive in cold water, either.

Right.