Aaagh a copperhead

[Tdog]

As I drove up to the house this afternoon I punched the garage door opener as usual, but immediately saw a small, maybe 1.5 ft., snake just outside the door. - - so I quickly lowered the door again. Unforutnately, that didn't do any good as he crawled in under the door at the edge where the rubber flap is missing a small piece. At this point, I didn't know what kind of critter I was dealin with as I hadn't got a good look at him. But my 1st look showed it to be tan with darker brown splotches... I called my wife to fetch the snake book & described what happened. Now understand I'm a bit of a packrat & the garage is somewhat cluttered. On the side where he went in is a stored folding table & other junk. Plus my 1968 plymouth convertible sits there immobile, waiting for me to bring it back to life. For all I know, he's in the car.
Well, give my wife a gold star [by this time she was in my truck watching out the window]. She suggested that I start the leaf blower we just bought & see if the airstream would make him exit. Dang if it didn't work. & dang if it wasn't a copperhead. They are marked an awful lot like Texas rat snakes, but don't get anywhere near as long. Well I grabbed the hoe & sent him off to another world. I've lived here almost 10 years now, & that's the 3rd one I've killed.

Makes me jittery. & my wife is plain scared to go into the garage.

Gotta get rid of the mice that I know are in there.

 

[soarkrebel]

Tdog maybe he just wanted to help you with the mice problem?
I would have sent him to snake heaven also. my grandmother got bit by a copperhead and after seeing her in the hospital i kill everyone i see.they serve a purpose but they should stay away from me!

 

[Thomas]

If you got any pets thats aren't custom to snakes like that,you might want to keep an watchful eye open.

 

[Gomez]

Not to alarm you, but I've heard "there's no such thing as just one copperhead". /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

I've killed a few what I thought were copperheads, but it turned out they were Rat snakes. Aggressive little buggers.

Be careful in your garage.

 

[MossRoad]

<font color=blue>She suggested that I start the leaf blower we just bought & see if the airstream would make him exit. Dang if it didn't work</font color=blue>

I used my leaf blower to get a ground hog to leaf(yuk, yuk) my garage a few weeks ago. I told my girls ( 4 & 9 ) to stand on the back porch and watch. Well, dang if the little thing didn't run out of the garage, take a right turn and head straight for the little girls. They were screaming and jumping up on the steps and the ground hog wanted to turn around, but I was coming up behind him so he dove under the gas grill cover. The girls stopped screaming and I gave the grill cover a blast with the leaf blower. He came out again and the girls started screaming again and he ran THROUGH the chain link fence and I haven't seen him since. My wife and I had to sit down because our stomachs hurt from laughing so hard /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Handy tools, those leaf blowers.

 

[8NTX]

While staying at my lake house a few years ago, I was walking out the door with a coffee cup and a bag of trash in hand and stopped to lock the door. I tried to set the coffee cup on the brick ledge next to the door but something was in the way - a coiled up copperhead./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif He was the same color as the brick, but luckily he had just swallowed something big and was kinda lethargic. I picked him up with the end of a hoe and separated him from his head.

Another time, I raised an overhead door to the boat storage building (the old-fashioned kind that pulls out toward you), and a copperhead got stuck under the door and was partially squashed. Started spitting out yellow powdery stuff. Strange. I started carrying a sidearm to that boat storage place afterwards, and ended up shooting two of 'em. Those dang things have a way of showing up when you least expect them.

 

[Thomas]

Those leaf blowers also good tool for quick clean in the pick up cab. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[turnkey4099]

Clean up a pick-up cab? What, you some kind of prevert??

 

[Steelfan]

Well Turnkey,

I'll go one farther, I used my Leaf-blower to clean my Tractor-Trailer Cab. Nothing like blowing the dirt from under your seats./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Just a little tip!!! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Think clean here not dirty.

Kent