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Originally Posted by matthewb0051

I don't like spiders and snakes... and that ain't what it takes


We were sitting around a couple of weeks ago on the cousins' vacation in Colorado. A few of them are prone to repeating whatever they have heard and taken as gospel. Sure enough, the topic of snakes came up and one person said; yeah, that's what happened to Andy, he was bitten by the baby copperhead and we all know they can't control their venom use and just give you all they got when they bite.

I had to pipe up and say that was a wives tale. Pretty sure I was the only one out of 10 people that thought it a wives tail.

Google being my friend I looked it up and my version was confirmed by several sources. I let them continue in their belief though.

Yeah, you're unlikely to change their mind.

I've seen some very small copperheads, that have had VERY tiny heads. I assume fang size is probably proportionate to head size. I'd wonder about a tiny one being able to get a fang to you unless you were wearing shorts or flip flops or spandex or barefoot.