a shovel is definitely the way to take care of this situation. That's what my dad always used. ;-) And yes, he hit the snake's head with it too.
(My snake nightmares will continue tonight I'm afraid... )
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a shovel is definitely the way to take care of this situation. That's what my dad always used. ;-) And yes, he hit the snake's head with it too.
(My snake nightmares will continue tonight I'm afraid... )
a shovel is definitely the way to take care of this situation. That's what my dad always used. ;-) And yes, he hit the snake's head with it too.
(My snake nightmares will continue tonight I'm afraid... )
I have snake nightmares whether I read about them or not...oh, well.
It's very lucky that you had a pool net, and luckier still that he fit in it. And even more so that Mr. Snake had recently eaten and was probably sluggish. Otherwise, I can't imagine anybody - deputy or not - putting a 5 ft rattlesnake in a net. :shock:
Johnrudy is really going to love me for this...but one of the images from my childhood that is forever branded into my memory involves a large diamondback that my grandmother killed with a handgun, which on the second shot jammed and burned her hand. Fortunately, about that time, the snake decided the first shot was enough and gave up the ghost...still coiled, mouth WIDE open, fangs exposed. Mama Mel had made a sudden movement when her Luger malfunctioned (no doubt there), and it was in the midst of striking at her when it dropped dead.
I've already told y'all about the one that was crossing East Point Washington, head in the woods on one side and tail not out of the woods on the other side. Growing up down here, I have plenty of snake stories.
Johnrudy is really going to love me for this...but one of the images from my childhood that is forever branded into my memory involves a large diamondback that my grandmother killed with a handgun, which on the second shot jammed and burned her hand. Fortunately, about that time, the snake decided the first shot was enough and gave up the ghost...still coiled, mouth WIDE open, fangs exposed. Mama Mel had made a sudden movement when her Luger malfunctioned (no doubt there), and it was in the midst of striking at her when it dropped dead.
I've already told y'all about the one that was crossing East Point Washington, head in the woods on one side and tail not out of the woods on the other side. Growing up down here, I have plenty of snake stories.
yes, now I have my feet up on the chair so nothing will slither across my feet.It's very lucky that you had a pool net, and luckier still that he fit in it. And even more so that Mr. Snake had recently eaten and was probably sluggish. Otherwise, I can't imagine anybody - deputy or not - putting a 5 ft rattlesnake in a net. :shock:
Johnrudy is really going to love me for this...but one of the images from my childhood that is forever branded into my memory involves a large diamondback that my grandmother killed with a handgun, which on the second shot jammed and burned her hand. Fortunately, about that time, the snake decided the first shot was enough and gave up the ghost...still coiled, mouth WIDE open, fangs exposed. Mama Mel had made a sudden movement when her Luger malfunctioned (no doubt there), and it was in the midst of striking at her when it dropped dead.
I've already told y'all about the one that was crossing East Point Washington, head in the woods on one side and tail not out of the woods on the other side. Growing up down here, I have plenty of snake stories.
I have the exact memory (not of Mama Mel and the gun) but of the snake crossing the road - - EXACTLY the same thing, head in grass while tail end on the other side of the road. Mr. JR still refuses to believe me and my dad is no longer here to support my story! :angry:
I grew up in rural Alabama. No much different. (Great childhood memories, no? :funn
oh how I hate snakesssssss.
Hey, Bob...didn't the rattlesnake originate in Texas?
That rattlesnake was there because there was enough food under the house to keep him fat and happy. I wonder how many mice will now be hanging out there? lol. I would have also relocated the snake had it been under my house. I don't mind the non-poisonous ones under my house, even though they startle me sometimes, but I always relocate the poisonous ones I find in my yard. My dogs are always trying to jump on the snakes and lizards around my back door, and I don't want them jumping on a rattlesnake.
All this snake talk has me rethinking my labor day trip!! YIKES!