Was leaving for work today and as I was stepping off the last step of the deck I heard a hiss and movement. Damn copperhead lunged at me! I about fell on it when I jumped. It was small, maybe about 18 inches, but by the time I got to work it was 7 feet long with a head the size of a softball!
I hate snakes!
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Sorry....
Here is what Kwilly posted on my FB:
And here's how I responded:
Freak out, try to kick it away, accidentally overturn the boat, get swarmed and eaten by a horde of marauding snakes.
As I take my last gasp I will think, "Damn, I should have just scooped it up with the oar and flung it back in the water."
This was the first thing to come to mind.
Sorry....
Here is what Kwilly posted on my FB:
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And here's how I responded:
Freak out, try to kick it away, accidentally overturn the boat, get swarmed and eaten by a horde of marauding snakes.
As I take my last gasp I will think, "Damn, I should have just scooped it up with the oar and flung it back in the water."
[QUOTE="vraiblonde, post: 6293524, how I responded:
Freak out, try to kick it away, accidentally overturn the boat, get swarmed and eaten by a horde of marauding snakes.
As I take my last gasp I will think, "Damn, I should have just scooped it up with the oar and flung it back in the water."
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That would be me! I'm surprised I didn't drown the thing peeing my pants!
Freak out, try to kick it away, accidentally overturn the boat, get swarmed and eaten by a horde of marauding snakes.
As I take my last gasp I will think, "Damn, I should have just scooped it up with the oar and flung it back in the water."
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That would be me! I'm surprised I didn't drown the thing peeing my pants!
I thought it was cucumber.
. I'm just glad I heard whatever it was to make me jump out of its way! I didn't stick around long enough to smell it
ontheriver
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Black snakes are good snakes. Saw one about that size on my walk with my dog yesterday but he was dead.
Grumpy
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I let them be, black snakes are good to have around. Couple weeks ago, I was sitting behind my house restringing a weedeater and a black snake slithers up to about 4 feet of me, pups were about 20 feet away and noticed. Had to save the poor guy and put him down by a stack of wood, he didn't seem hurt by one of my dogs grabbing him and pitching him in the air. He quickly took the hint and slid into the wood pile. It does make me worry about my dogs coming across a copperhead, tho.
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Black Snakes hunt and eat Copperheads.
Have had juveniles and adults come thought the yard.
UglyBear
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Beautiful snake, great photo.
The question is: what were you doing 20 feet up in a tree?
Louise
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Thanks for the laugh. I can, always, count on you! Black snakes are awesome, and help keep the undesirables at bay. And, have said before that we, always, try not to kill any creature; as in try to let a fly, bee, misquito bug, mouse, et al, out of our house before we have to kill it. Same with the outdoor creatures. Live and let live.
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Kinnakeet
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No venom..black snake head shape will let you know if it has venom except for the coral snake