Posted: 4/24/2012 4:52:13 PM EDT
I was going up my road, and spotted a Copperhead sunning itself on the gravel. I took some pics, then we both went on with what we were doing.     |
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I've caught and kept them before, but just don't feel like doing it anymore. I don't have a proper cage for it anyway, and obviously can't put it in with my Black Rat Snakes. As my back gets worse, I find that some of my reaction times have gotten worse, and my Rat snakes have bit me when I didn't think they could. It doesn't matter with them, but with something venomous it certainly would. I'll stick to just looking at them.  |
on it's ass.
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Thank you for not killing it. Black snakes and a few others take care of that naturally. Actually in the great state of MO all snakes are protected, so yep, thanks for not killing it 
We run across these fairly regularly at the BSA camp I work at in the summer, we typically will catch one (and release it a few weeks later) for the nature display, we relocate a number of them through out the summer, and we have been known to exterminate one or two that posed and immediate danger to campers/staff. They are neat snakes, and I have been fortunate enough to work with a couple of people that were unfortunate enough to have been bit by one (many years ago), they say it was an experience unlike anything they have ever went through, hours upon hours of systemic agonizing pain and generally feeling like death may be a better alternative. |