Snake Time

[wushaw]

JimBrown,

Tombstone is my favorite place...Soo much history there.

this planet would be much better place without these ugly suckers. Kill them all. they are good for nothing. good snake is a dead snake.

joe

Snakes are by far the best mousers mother nature has. Get rid of the snakes and the mouse/rat population will litterly explode.

 

[Jimbrown]

Well heck I did not get them all. White dog got bit three times on the nose on Wed. $950 bucks later he is back home, Anti venom $525 a wack. And I got the dog for free. SHHHEEEEZZZ

 

[LC '92]

Snakes are by far the best mousers mother nature has. Get rid of the snakes and the mouse/rat population will litterly explode.

Give me mice any day over snakes! Mice can be trapped, poisoned, and caught by cats. Nor do mice bite your grandchildren and send them to the hospital. I'd lot rather have my kids and grandkids come to see me then be afraid of being snake bit at my place and staying home.

As far as protected snakes go, when the government protects me from being bitten by them is when I will help protect them from being destroyed. The Timber Rattler that bit an older lady working in the flowerbed in my front yard was protected and it almost killed her.

Either manage the animals on your place or they will manage you. All the snakes at my place meet a similar fate, they are killed.

 

[dwenham]

The entire idea that snakes are great mousers is mistaken. Snakes in general have a low metabolism which means their food requirements are very minimal. Even in the active season, rattlers may go days between feedings whereas a cat that kills mice for fun may kill several per day. We have 4 cats and NO snakes. Dave

 

[irwin]

Bird the only that I know for sure of that is protected is the Banded Black Rattlesnake and maybe the Massasagua. I do my best not to kill any of them but when they are inside the yard i have no choice as they are simply to dangerous for me to try and handle. It is an hour drive to the closest hospital so I would be in bad shape by the time I got there. I have a neighbor who makes things form the skins and sells them at his shop. He offeres to pay me $15 for the big ones but I just give them to him. Here is a look at his very unique place. rattlesnake crafts

Many years ago (22-24?) I visited a place in (Gleason) sp? Arizona and met a couple that had a trailer like that and made their money killing rattlers and making things with the skin, head and fangs.

 

[Jimbrown]

It is the same two people It is the ghost town of Gleeson. They had to move out of Gleeson I think that they lived on state land which is not legal. they moved about two miles to the Double U Ranch. It is still a big tourist stop.

 

[irwin]

It is the same two people It is the ghost town of Gleeson. They had to move out of Gleeson I think that they lived on state land which is not legal. they moved about two miles to the Double U Ranch. It is still a big tourist stop.

Wow, I really enjoyed the time I spent in Arizona. I camped east of you, at the KOA in Benson, did the tourist things, visted Nogales, Mex., Saguaro Nation Forest, Tombstone, etc.
I remembered the rattlesnake couple. I thought at the time, what a way to live....I figured they'd always be somewhat poor, but freer than me.
I still have a slight facination with rattlers. Too bad they don't stay away from humans, but if my family or pets are in danger, and I can't move them safely...goodnight beautifull serpent.
Oh almost forgot. In Gleeson there was a saloon, We (the 1st wife and I) had 3 bean soup and a couple beers, I paid for the first beer and soup, but think we walked out exchanging thanks and pleasantries and forgot to pay for the last beer. and didn't leave a tip! always meant to find out who and where to contact the owners. They were an older couple, most likely gone..but still...

 

[Mickey_Fx]

A couple yrs ago an ran across a couple Cobra's in a church parking lot. One's a King but don't know the variety of the other.

 

[elalexander]

Diesel Power is right . Maryland has protected these critters. I know we have a post going on about coyotes killing livestock. A week or two back Md. passed or proposed a law so you have to buy a #5.00 permit to shot them!!! Our down to earth neighbor, West Virginia put a bounty on them. Sometimes ya just can't fix stupid.

 

[3RRL]

The entire idea that snakes are great mousers is mistaken. Snakes in general have a low metabolism which means their food requirements are very minimal. Even in the active season, rattlers may go days between feedings whereas a cat that kills mice for fun may kill several per day. We have 4 cats and NO snakes. Dave

Cats make great "snakers" too. Out here my neighbor has about 5 or 6 cats that will kill the rattlers. He says not to get attached to them. Give them a food, water and shelter out in the barn or other structure. They will rid the place of rodents and snakes. He loses on or two to coyotes and bobcats, and maybe a rattlesnake, but he replaces them from the pound.