Lowdown rascal ignored your NO TRESPASSING signs and your dog caught him trying to steal your beer. When you nixed that plan he obviously was trying to make off with your mower.Had an interesting afternoon today. Got home from work and let my German shepherd out into the garage as normal. All the sudden she started running around the garage barking and trying to get to something under a cooler sitting on the floor. She is a good mouser, but never barks at small animals during the chase, so I know it was something different. I moved the cooler to find a very large dark colored snake. In NC that normally means a cottonmouth. It did not give me the time for a good look before it got up under the mower. I have already had a dog killed by a snake before, so I was not playing around. I did however, give him the opportunity to exit the area when I jumped onto the m and just fired it up. However, I saw no snake leave from under the mower. I then hit the blades and guess what? The snake came out. It came out in several hundreds of pieces. Sounded like a fire cracker going off. The down side, after looking at the pieces, it turned out to be a Red Belly Water Snake not a Cottonmouth. Sorry bud!
Man...venomous or not, your actions should be justifiable in anyone's book!!!