Rattlesnake

[wowzers]

I have an everyone has to earn a living approach to critters until they are just off the back porch. My daughter came in saying the cats had a snake and we thought okay it’s probably a garter snake till we went out and the cat was bopping it on the head. We ended up frying it up and it was pretty tasty but really bony.

The brown one we saw fishing and it was really unusually brown for our area.

 

[Chris in TN]

Two at the same times. This was several years ago.

They were on our farm. Got them both with a pistol. The rest of the story is that they went under a flat rock and I think rock fragments splattered them when I shot. Either way...


About 2 weeks ago and maybe 400 yards from my house. Someone apparently stopped and got the rattle before we saw it.

On the road I live on. I try not to bother the ones I see on the road.

Simon the goat after being bitten in 2020. He recovered fully and is still around:


This guy was 3 feet from my barn a couple weeks ago. The wife saw him first and stood still and snapped a photo while the kids retrieved me.

 

[OregonSteeler]

Why did I read this thread lol if I dont have nightmares about snakes, it is tornados. Luckily I have not had one of a tornado of snakes lol

Snakenado!

 

[HairyScandinavian]

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I have an everyone has to earn a living approach to critters until they are just off the back porch. My daughter came in saying the cats had a snake and we thought okay it’s probably a garter snake till we went out and the cat was bopping it on the head. We ended up frying it up and it was pretty tasty but really bony.

The brown one we saw fishing and it was really unusually brown for our area.

Man that is a freaking gorgeous pattern and color on that snake.

 

[Jusgunn3]

We have timber rattlers in PA. You generally have to look for them, but when you find them you can find a bunch.

That’s when a 12ga is needed