Yul Lose Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 My wife found this one in the garage a few minutes ago. IMG_4080.MOV 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 It doesn’t seem too upset about being caught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 Lunch? Tastes like chicken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 15 minutes ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Lunch? Tastes like chicken. More like smoked fish. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted June 14 Author Share Posted June 14 I took it to a guy that uses them for snake avoidance training clinics for dogs. Once he’s done with them he gives them to a lab that makes anti venom. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 (edited) 1 hour ago, Yul Lose said: I took it to a guy that uses them for snake avoidance training clinics for dogs. Once he’s done with them he gives them to a lab that makes anti venom. Much more useful, and less dangerous, even in the wild, than the denizens of 10th & L in Sacramento. Edited June 14 by Subdeacon Joe 4 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Pat Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 good rattler 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted June 16 Author Share Posted June 16 21 minutes ago, Irish Pat said: good rattler What species of rattler is this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Pat Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 that’s a timber rattlesnake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cholla Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 1 hour ago, Irish Pat said: that’s a timber rattlesnake They are also called canebreak rattlesnakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 The only rattler native to the Pacific NW is the Western Rattlesnake (not to be confused with the the Western Diamondback), sometimes called the the Pacific Rattlesnake. It's small, and there are only a couple of recorded fatalities in the last century. We've seen them often camping and hiking in the Central Cascades, east of the crest. They are timid, and we pay them little mind. Just part of the local wildlife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Australia not only contains more species of venomous snake than any other country on earth, but also includes among those snakes no less than nine of the world's top ten most venomous snake species......if you don't bother them, they don't bother you. Seriously, 99 out of 100 snakebites are from idiots just not ignoring snakes here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nostrum Damus SASS #110702 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 3 hours ago, Irish Pat said: that’s a timber rattlesnake Come on, folks -- EVERY state inhabited by timber rattlesnakes has laws protecting the species, even Texas, where it is listed as a threatened species. They don't bother anyone and we shouldn't be bothering them unless absolutely necessary in self-defense. If you can safely usher one back into nature where it belongs, that's the ticket. Coral snakes, on the other hand, like the one who "donated" its skin to me for making my hat band, are listed as a species of "Least Concern" in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) Red List, and are not protected anywhere, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Pat Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 don’t mess with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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