Stumpin/Killin in the South

[MSARCHER]

#7232

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[paleoman]

#59586

I’m pretty happy I don’t live in snake country. My old world grandma, long gone, gave me the word association of snake = ax! They don’t really bother me, but you can keep them:lol:

[Stephen Graf]

#59627

Doesn’t look venomous to me. I hope you ate it!

[Doc Nock]

#59630

LOts of folks don’t like people killing snakes.

I don’t see many, and don’t “kill on site”.

However, since often snakes bite when startled if you walk up on them, step over a log, etc, same goes for me…

If a snake startles me and I have anything close to a ‘weapon’ I might just strike!

As fast as they are with reflexes, I’m no way that fast at identification on pit viper or not!

[William Warren]

#59758

Looks like a king snake or a rat snake. I would have let that one slide.

[Bunyan Morris]

#59811

Grey rat snake. They help keep the rodents in line.

[Etter1]

#61056

No reason on earth to kill that snake. Thats a shame.

[MSARCHER]

#61553

OK, wow, well…i guess i should apologize because in no way did i mean to offend anybody with this. I have nothing against snakes, heck i’ve owned two for pets. However, i do think a lot more of my dog than a snake and she apparently doesn’t have enough since to leave it alone. And at the time it was gonna be her or him. I didnt take the time to study it to see it it was poisonous or not. I’m aware not all kill other predators but a lot do so I wonder the reaction if it were a coyote or bobcat? T dont eat those either. Anyway, I apologize and i’ll try to delete post or at least the picture.

[Brennan Herr]

#61717

Msarcher,

Not all are offended. I have killed many snakes and other critters that circumstances deemed necessary. Sometimes killing is the way. Sometimes it isn’t. Had to kill a raccoon last night at work. Part of life but I try my best to find another remedy if possible.

[Ralph]

#61770

I’m not offended either. They’re times when whoever strikes first lives longest and I prefer that living longest part to be me and mine. When a snake’s close enough to me to startle me, it’s at risk. Sometimes thinking about reacting ain’t gonna cut it. But generally just cause it’s a snake or coyote or whatever it don’t have to die, just depends on what kind a pickle we we get into.

I still have no use for rattlers. I grew up with them and I still don’t like the **** things.

[Stephen Graf]

#62525

Handling criticism well, as you did, is a sign of a strong mind. Good Man.

[Doc Nock]

#62672

A biology proff of mine used to say a “Weed” is simply a plant that is out of place—and out of time”

Point is that a “pest” might seem to fit that same definition. “An animal that is in the wrong place and at the wrong time”

Came home w/ friends to their rural home one night to find this “copper head” looking snake coiled by the back door… luckily there was a new broom handy so I tried to encourage it away from the door but it struck at the broom repeatedly and wouldn’t move. My friend called it a “corn snake” with a history locally of being quite aggressive!

You get bit by a stray dog, cat, any snake…the bite is painful and the chance of infection is very high, meaning time and $$ spent to combat that or prevent it.

With a young child and beloved bird dog around that property with no sense, that snake died.

I see no reason to criticize another for their actions. Perhaps sharing how we’d differ is human enough?

Any wild animal bite can cause problems and in the heat of the moment, “out of place—and out of time” is not a bad rule…in my not-so-humble opinion 😀

[paleoman]

#62811

There’s something instinctually honest about wanting to bash snakes, for me anyway. I don’t because I know they have a right to live too, their ecology, etc. But I won’t say my halo never needs polishing as far as snakes go either.

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