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by: Ducatisti Active Indicator LED Icon 8 OP 
~ 8 years ago   May 5, '15 7:18pm  
Our wonderful & smart dog just alerted us to a coral snake in the planter in our backyard. She was woofing at it but not getting near, just watching it and letting us know. It's dead now.
Then my son says he saw a much larger, brownish colored snake on the side of the greenbelt path yesterday.
 
So snakes are out & active. Time to remind your kids to be watchful! 4951
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Nurse3 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 8 years ago   May 5, '15 8:01pm  
We had a coral snake in our back yard last year.  I'm sorry (not) to say he didn't make it. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   May 5, '15 8:11pm  
Around here, copperheads, rattlesnakes, coral snakes, and cotton mouths must die!  Over the years, I have killed three (maybe four) copperheads and I saw a small rattler that disappeared by the time I got a shovel. 4951
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DanStanton Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 8:57am  
Pretty silly to kill snakes. They eat rodents. 4951
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Nurse3 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 8:58am  
Pretty silly to kill snakes. They eat rodents.
 
@DanStanton: Not so silly if you have a VERY poisonous snake in your back yard and your children and animals play back there.  I'll take a rodent any day compared to a potentially life threatening bite to my child.
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 9:09am  
I pretty much leave snakes alone in my yard if they aren't poisonous. I back to a ditch with forest on the other side, so snakes are a part of life here. I did have a coral snake last year, but my boxer stomped it until it slithered away, before I could grab a shovel! The only thing I had was my boiling hot morning coffee, so I threw it on the snake. Then called my neighbor to let her know theres a scalded mad coral snake in her yard! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 10:08am  
I'm terrified of snakes - like, I need professional help terrified.  But we've got a grass snake living in and around our pond, and once I get over the initial "frozen in fear" response, he doesn't bother me.  I don't want to be near him, I wish he'd go live somewhere else, but I don't want him dead.  I mostly just don't go out there and we do fine.  One day, he managed to get in our pool, and I was watching my husband try to fish him out from the upstairs window (with a drink in hand).  He's a little bitty thing, and he couldn't get himself out of the pool.  He was trying, and starting to look frantic when DH came around with the net.  I almost felt sorry for the little dude.  DH finally got him out and flung him over the back fence.  Heh.  I'm sure that was quite an experience.  The very large copperhead sunning himself on my back step, 6 inches away from our door?  THAT snake I wanted dead.  4951
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 10:10am  
I know you are supposed to cut the snakes head off with a shovel, but how fast are they?  I mean, is it easy to do?  We had a snake when we first moved in.  It was coiled up on our breezeway by my front door (we were in the garage).  I opened the door and almost died, it was the first time I had seen a snake outside of a zoo!  Screamed for my husband and by the time he found the shovel it was gone.  We decided it was in an old prettified tree stump so the hubby poured some gasoline into it (we saw the snake try to get out) and then he grabbed the blow torch.  We had our own little Olympic flame.  My dad asked if we killed it or if it got away underground.  I said I didn't see anything slithering through my yard on fire so I assume we got it.  Emoticon 4951
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 10:11am  
I can handle or deal with most snakes, but this one give me the creeps...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-nRbsmTW40 4951
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 10:26am  
Not so silly if you have a VERY poisonous snake in your back yard and your children and animals play back there.  I'll take a rodent any day compared to a potentially life threatening bite to my child.
 
@Nurse3: I would agree...if it were one of the other 3 venomous snakes we have in the area.  Coral snakes are incredibly docile and one would really need to actually pick it up and try to hurt it before it would bite.  Even then, they don't have fangs like vipers so it sort of has to gnaw on you for a bit.  They stopped making anti-venom for them years ago because there just isn't a need.  To be clear, I'm not advocating picking up a coral.  To the contrary, you should give them plenty of room to get away from you.  I've seen several of them over the years on the greenbelts and out at East End and every single time, they just want to get away and be left alone.Copperheads, cottonmouths, and rattlers...I'll leave them alone in the wild but I have no problem with killing them if they are in my yard.  No reason to ever kill any other snake in this area.  Not only are they not hurting anything or anyone, like it's already been said, they help control the rodent population.I'm no tree hugger, but I think education and familiarization with these creatures would go a long way for those of us residing in The Livable Forest.Just my 2 cents.  YMMV.
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Nurse3 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 11:14am  
I can handle or deal with most snakes, but this one give me the creeps...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-nRbsmTW40
 
@NewToTexas: Okay I could dig having that snake in my back yard.  No venomous snakes would dare to linger with him around.
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 11:36am  
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 11:42am  

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>> Not so silly if you have a VERY poisonous snake in your back yard and your children and animals play back there.  I'll take a rodent any day compared to a potentially life threatening bite to my child.
 
@Nurse3: I would agree...if it were one of the other 3 venomous snakes we have in the area.  Coral snakes are incredibly docile and one would really need to actually pick it up and try to hurt it before it would bite.  Even then, they don't have fangs like vipers so it sort of has to gnaw on you for a bit.  They stopped making anti-venom for them years ago because there just isn't a need.  To be clear, I'm not advocating picking up a coral.  To the contrary, you should give them plenty of room to get away from you.  I've seen several of them over the years on the greenbelts and out at East End and every single time, they just want to get away and be left alone.Copperheads, cottonmouths, and rattlers...I'll leave them alone in the wild but I have no problem with killing them if they are in my yard.  No reason to ever kill any other snake in this area.  Not only are they not hurting anything or anyone, like it's already been said, they help control the rodent population.I'm no tree hugger, but I think education and familiarization with these creatures would go a long way for those of us residing in The Livable Forest.Just my 2 cents.  YMMV.
 
@shodan66:  Exactly I refuse to kill a snake as I make every effort to save them. All you need is two sticks and a bucket with a lid which is what I use  to take them to better habitat. They are perfect rodent killers in which my opinion do more damage like spread disease and fleas making us uncomfortable.
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 11:46am  

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>> Pretty silly to kill snakes. They eat rodents.
@DanStanton: Not so silly if you have a VERY poisonous snake in your back yard and your children and animals play back there.  I'll take a rodent any day compared to a potentially life threatening bite to my child.
@Nurse3: AMEN!!!! I don't like snakes at all, now just reading this thread I am afraid!!!! I hope they're all at yalls house and not mine! Emoticon I'd rather keep all my rodents. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 11:50am  
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~ 8 years ago   May 6, '15 11:56am  

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@DanStanton: Not so silly if you have a VERY poisonous snake in your back yard and your children and animals play back there.  I'll take a rodent any day compared to a potentially life threatening bite to my child.
@Nurse3: AMEN!!!! I don't like snakes at all, now just reading this thread I am afraid!!!! I hope they're all at yalls house and not mine! Emoticon I'd rather keep all my rodents.
 
@bubbleyes72: As a teenager I used to have a Burmese python in my room and feed it rats at first and then led up to chickens.
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