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bjrogg:
Thanks Pat, now I can honestly say that other people have snakes in their houses to. I'm sure that'll put my wife at ease. I told her to make sure she told me if she found another one in there.lol She really didn't think that was funny but she's better now.
Bjrogg

Zuma:
Way much better than having a nest of copperheads :o ::)
Zuma

bjrogg:

--- Quote from: Zuma on August 12, 2018, 01:43:18 pm ---Way much better than having a nest of copperheads :o ::)
Zuma

--- End quote ---

That's exactly what I'm going to tell her Zuma. That's gotta make her feel better.
Bjrogg  ;)

BowEd:
Like Pat B my coon hunting friends I went with in central Arkansas were more worried about what they did to our dogs more so than themselves.It can matter where the dog gets bit.Up by the face and throat is a lot more dangerous because of the swelling that occurs.The dog can strangulate from it.Like Pat said a dry bite can happen too.While crossing shoal creeks in the mountains following dogs we killed quite a few cottonmouths just tossing a rock on them as they got too close.You have to be aware where your hands go while climbing steep banks.In june the musky scent of them could be smelt from the truck down in the bottoms where the creeks ran.The same is said for my coon hunting friends in Alabama I hunted with.Thready a friend of mine there swore of a cure by taking a small bottle of kerosene with him to put on the bite.
Henry another coon hunter friend in Dixon ,Missouri[central Missouri] got rid of his wood piles by the house for firewood because of the copperheads in them while his grandkids were visiting playing in the yard also.Awful painful scary experience for a little kid.
Luckily up north the frequency of poisonous snakes is'nt much but to me it's just something to deal with if living down south and would'nt change any amount of time in the woods for me.Just gotta be aware that's all.

RidgeRunner:
Our three cats had a 4 to 4 1/2 foot timber rattler pointed, in the driveway, as we drove in from church last night.
A H & R single barrel 20 gauge took care of it.  This is the 5th or 6th, large rattler, that we have found" In The Yard" in 26 years.
Two of them were 6' long and as big around as a quart canning jar. 

I think our yard might be on a rattler trail.  If there is such a thing???
I also think that it is possible that far more rattler cross through that we ever see.

Makes a man want to mow the grass or something. :o

David

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