O.T, Relocating critters...Big snakes

jm. · May 15, 2012

Got about half the yard mowed when I noticed I had lost a blade. Thought I had found the blade and was about ready to pick it up but found it to be a timber rattler almost 5 ft long 9 rattlers. Very big around must have just had anice meal

Vito · May 15, 2012

I would put him in the trash can.Dead of course.

Vito

Traditional Farmer · May 15, 2012

If you don't want it on your property what makes you think someone else would want it?Illegal to relocate Wildlife in some states.

RN · May 15, 2012

If the baby snake- you did say it was playing with rattles- had good meal of varmits that cause you more trouble than snake, let it live, just drag it out of front yard. If you have lots of snake trouble, then consider snake skin belts, hat bands, maybe slippers if not enough material for boots. Check with VA for next Ranger reunion cookout for rest of snake after skinning- a 5 foot fillet makes a looong sandwich filling but will feed a squad. RN.

jm. · May 15, 2012

I just don,t want him wher I am as well as the kids.. ie.. not in the yard

Billy Shafer · May 15, 2012

Snakes make my legs move real fast.

JMOR · May 15, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:49:36 05/15/12) I just don,t want him wher I am as well as the kids.. ie.. not in the yard

ake a vulture/buzzard a "happy meal"!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous-0 · May 15, 2012

Actually we need them if we are not to be overcome with vermin,hope you put it in a bag and took it for a ride in the car and released.

huntingreen2day2 · May 15, 2012

Think he has a mate? I would kill him if I could stand to get close enough to do it.

JayinNY · May 15, 2012

A nice wolverine steel spade will take care of it!

SweetFeet · May 15, 2012

Now, THAT'S FUNNY!!!

David G · May 15, 2012

Where are you?

Wheat Farmer · May 15, 2012

Only two kinds of snakes I don't like.
Big ones and little ones.

JerryS · May 15, 2012

I'm as tolerant of wild critters as just about anybody, but that attitude does not apply to rattlesnakes. I've seen TV programs about what a rattler bite can do to a person. Ugly! Fortunately they are not plentiful where I live, but I don't intend to share living space with one.

Just heard on the news that a guy shopping at Walmart in Washington State got nailed by a rattler hiding in the mulch bags. Guy said he thought he was moving a stick to get a bag of mulch when the stick bit him.

NCWayne · May 15, 2012

Saw an article online the other night where a guy in a Wal-Mart garden center reached down to pick up what he thought was a stick, and got bit by a rattler.

Mark - IN. · May 15, 2012

I remember when I was stationed at Ft. Hood in Texas, used to go down to Galveston most weekends. So on this back road between Kileen and Austin was this bar called the "Rattlesnake Inn" or maybe "Rattlesnake Saloon", I don't recall. Me and some buddies stopped in once and every thing about it was covered in rattlesnake skin. Every thing but the beer bottles. Lamp shades, every thing, rattlesnake skin. Was pretty dark in there mostly because the lamp light coudn't get through the rattlesnake skin lamp shades. Whoever decorated it really liked rattlesnake skin. Oh, there was something else that wasn't coated with rattlesnake skin, the records on the juke box. All were still 45's and every last one of them was Hank Williams Sr, and everyone of them cracked and popped. All day long and into the evening, me and my buddies, just the four of us. When we left, there was another tavern next door, packed to the gill with people boot scootin and stuff. None of them were there when we got to the Rattlesnake Inn or Saloon, or we wouldn't have stayed so long in a dark rattlesnake den of sorts. Beers were good and cold though. Party was better next door though once we found out about it.

If you got a wet bar in the basement, you have you the first skin there...

Mark

JMOR · May 15, 2012

(quoted from post at 22:58:46 05/15/12) Only two kinds of snakes I don't like.
Big ones and little ones.

ep, if you pass on killing a poisonous snake, you deserve to be killed by one.

Stovepipe · May 16, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:20:45 05/15/12) Got about half the yard mowed when I noticed I had lost a blade. Thought I had found the blade and was about ready to pick it up but found it to be a timber rattler almost 5 ft long 9 rattlers. Very big around must have just had anice meal

Man am I glad we don't have poisonous snakes here. I don't even like the garter snakes we do have.

hintocw · May 16, 2012

I really like snakes (no joke).

36 Coupe · May 16, 2012

Shot gun works fine.Or put it in Bendees yard.

C.R. · May 16, 2012

take him for a walk out to the fenceline let it go and keep eating your rats dont tell your wife she will likely want it dead

Ultradog MN · May 16, 2012

I always bring unwanted critters across the river.
What river you ask? Why the river Styx of course.
And no coin for Charon either.

doubleN · May 16, 2012

Bingo!

Anonymous-0 · May 16, 2012

Poinonous snake don't have a lot of predators do they?? I guess they need to be killed off if they getting close to people....
Only pests that I relocate are mice and an occassional rat... Have neighbors on each side that makes pets out of every cat I get so I've taken to live trapping mice and relocating them into the basement window of each house..... They keep complaining that my feed attracts mice and they always have them in thier house.... I just tellem to stop taking my feed in thier house and leave my cats alone.....

8Nr--WI · May 16, 2012

Indeed, that is a big one----what state does he live in? Got 'em up by my place, but have been lucky enough not to have seen a live one yet.

Tim

Tx Jim · May 16, 2012

(quoted from post at 06:27:43 05/16/12) Poinonous snake don't have a lot of predators do they?? I guess they need to be killed off if they getting close to people....

Copied and pasted from Google

iamondbacks have many predators and not always because the predator wants to eat them. Animals such as deer, antelope, cows and horses regard the diamondback as a threat and they may try to trample or stomp the snake. Eagles, hawks, roadrunners, kingsnakes, coyote, bobcats or fox are predators who look at these snakes as a source of food.

JMOR · May 16, 2012

(quoted from post at 07:42:25 05/16/12)

(quoted from post at 06:27:43 05/16/12) Poinonous snake don't have a lot of predators do they?? I guess they need to be killed off if they getting close to people....

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Copied and pasted from Googleiamondbacks have many predators and not always because the predator wants to eat them. Animals such as deer, antelope, cows and horses regard the diamondback as a threat and they may try to trample or stomp the snake. Eagles, hawks, roadrunners, kingsnakes, coyote, bobcats or fox are predators who look at these snakes as a source of food.

-R-E-A-T!!!!!!!!!

Nancy Howell · May 16, 2012

Read that news article, too. Walmart store was in WA state. He got tagged on his hand and may loose feeling in two of his fingers. Luckily, it was a small one, only about a foot long.

Nancy Howell · May 16, 2012

We don't bother the non-poisonous snakes. They do lots of good. The bad guys don't survive. Plenty of hawks, black snakes, king snakes, coyotes, etc. to control the rats & mice.

Dispatched one copperhead very close to the house and 2 cottonmouths in the bottom. Beware of cottonmouths. They are aggressive and will come after you when most snakes will leave given the opportunity.

jm. · May 16, 2012

David Located about 70 miles west on Nashville Tenn.call it middle Tennessee. Have about 260 acres here in one tract. On average will see one about ever other year. Most are in a dozer pile or somewhere I can live with but that one was within 20 yards of the house in the yard where grandkids play. Had to get him. He was a little over agressive. Usually not too hard to get rid of them.

Ralph Bauer · May 17, 2012

Don't have the Timber rattler, but plenty of western diamond backs. In fact, we even have an official Rattlesnake Derby here in Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma, one of 6 official ones in the State.
Ours is always on the last full weekend in April, we just had the 46th!!

http://www.mangumrattlesnakederby.com/

Enjoy the website link!! -- And y'all come in 2013!!
Ralph in Oklahoma.

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