Rattle Snakes
My wife and I are going to be slow poke RVing for 8 to 10 weeks in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Be leaving mid June. I've spent the last couple of hours on internet searches, and I searched...
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JaxDad wrote:Bobbo wrote:down home wrote:
Picked up one as a child at Grand Ma's near back door and chased my Uncle with it. I was not four yet. Ha a hard time letting go of it. Uncle Jim, the Sheriff, shot it's head off while I held it. Grand Ma and Mam like to have had a hissy fit. Didn't know that a Rattle Snake was supposed to be dangerous.
I was visiting a friend one time when his 10 year old son walked up to show his dad this neat snake he found. It was a copperhead. Fortunately, the kid picked it up right behind the head. The dad calmly told him to hold the snake just like that for a minute, went in the house and came out with a sheath knife. He had the kid hold the snake's head against the ground, and drove the knife through the snake's head pinning it to the ground. The dad then had "vigorous" words with his son.
Yeah, lots of folks perpetuate that whole ‘better to kill it than just leave it alone’ myth.
I’ll bet a whole bunch of indigenous people would still be here if.........
Oh, never mind..........
Would you care to elaborate on how this dad should have had his son put down the ticked off copperhead? The "vigorous words" he had with his son, oh never mind..................
