Rattlesnakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stick said:
I guess you have never had a run in with one. Rattle snakes are deadly. thank God them people killed them.
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That view is so narrow.

I have been around hundreds. They eat rats and mice, and bugs of all sorts.

Killing them is senseless and ignorant.

A bus will kill you if it runs over you...do you go around killing every bus you see?

There are very few deaths each year due to rattle snake bites. Probably less than three or four a year due to rattle snakes. Most of those are in situations where they cannot get medical help for days.
 
No need to kill them...he should have called animal control to capture and relocate them!!

Here some pics of some near Globe Az.
 

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When we were building our house in Jacksonville (many moons ago) they were clearing a lot about 4 doors down from us and came across a group of about 50-60 rattlers. They killed all of them. :mad::mad::(:( When I found out, I was furious! I called animal control, but they couldn't do anything about it. There are plenty of woods in Florida, especially up there, where these snakes could have been moved without damage to the eco-system....

Snakes provide excellent pest control. We need them around!
 
Snakes, coyotes and other such creatures are the only thing that keeps rats and mice from overrunning the planet....

It is extremely selfish and short sighted to presume that indiscriminantly killing snakes is prudent.... Snakes are a part of the eco-system as much as all the other creatures...

Don't be a schmuck...Only kill when you are in danger of being killed yourself...

Knowledge is power.Think, learn and act responsibly before you simply take a life...any life.

D
 
Django said:
Snakes, coyotes and other such creatures are the only thing that keeps rats and mice from overrunning the planet....

It is extremely selfish and short sighted to presume that indiscriminantly killing snakes is prudent.... Snakes are a part of the eco-system as much as all the other creatures...

Don't be a schmuck...Only kill when you are in danger of being killed yourself...

Knowledge is power.Think, learn and act responsibly before you simply take a life...any life.

D
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I love you man!
 

If there were not plenty of rodents there, the snakes would not be there.

I would rather have the snakes there. (no Disease)

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Guys, I don't care for snakes of any kind, but to kill those just because you can should get you into some real trouble. I think it is ridiculous.:mad: :mad:
 
Black1 said:
X2!!!! .... And to you as well, Roy. :)
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If a man's wealth is measured by the quality of his friends, then surely I am rich beyond my wildest imagination....:eek:

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Django said:
Snakes, coyotes and other such creatures are the only thing that keeps rats and mice from overrunning the planet....

It is extremely selfish and short sighted to presume that indiscriminantly killing snakes is prudent.... Snakes are a part of the eco-system as much as all the other creatures...

Don't be a schmuck...Only kill when you are in danger of being killed yourself...

Knowledge is power.Think, learn and act responsibly before you simply take a life...any life.

D
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:rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: ....

Stefan...
 
i hate phuggin snakes, had a timber rattler fall off a limb onto my shoulder when i was young. i probably wouldve killed them too. sad to say but thats just me. we have a bunch of water moccasin's around our ponds. we shoot alll of them b/c they are really aggressive and we take all the kids out there alot.
 
eddie102870 said:
i hate phuggin snakes, had a timber rattler fall off a limb onto my shoulder when i was young. i probably wouldve killed them too. sad to say but thats just me. we have a bunch of water moccasin's around our ponds. we shoot alll of them b/c they are really aggressive and we take all the kids out there alot.
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City Slickers just don't understand do they Eddie:dontknow: :D :D :D
 
kyle's srt10 said:
City Slickers just don't understand do they Eddie:dontknow: :D :D :D
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No, I get it (I was born a country boy :eek: ).... I just had to kill a 3' Kingsnake on our lanai last week. I don't know how it got in the enclosure, but my cat was out there and I didn't want it biting her. I thought it was a Coral Snake (venomous) at first, but still didn't want to deal with a bite wound. So, I killed it and threw it in the back yard, the vultures had it in less than an hour. ;) ...... Killing for protection of family or pets is one thing, IMO. Killing a thing because YOU are in THEIR "house" (the woods) and don't happen to like snakes, is another.
 
Black1 said:
No, I get it (I was born a country boy :eek: ).... I just had to kill a 3' Kingsnake on our lanai last week. I don't know how it got in the enclosure, but my cat was out there and I didn't want it biting her. I thought it was a Coral Snake (venomous) at first, but still didn't want to deal with a bite wound. So, I killed it and threw it in the back yard, the vultures had it in less than an hour. ;) ...... Killing for protection of family or pets is one thing, IMO. Killing a thing because YOU are in THEIR "house" (the woods) and don't happen to like snakes, is another.
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i try not to mess with them but i stay in the woods almost year round. hunting and fishing. i dont mess with rattlesnakes as long as they dont mess with me. we do kill the snakes around the ponds and will never get them all. will continue to do it so my kids wont get snakebit. my boy got bit 2 years ago in the lake but luckily it was a water snake. its a scary feeling. my aunt was bit by a rattlesnake in her flowerbed a few years back. we do leave the king snakes and rat snakes and all the ones that are harmless.
 
Black1 said:
. but my cat was out there and I didn't want it biting her. I thought it was a Coral Snake
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Very common mistake...and discretion may in this instance be the better part of valor...a mistaken dead king snake is understandable...

"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black, venom lack". However, this only reliably applies to coral snakes in North America."
 
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