Copperhead!!!

[peppy]

I can't tell from the picture, but the hourglass pattern on the snake looks like it does not connect on the top. My experience with copperheads is if you messed with it it would have struck, unless it was cold or really full.

[BeyGon]

That's strange since slaughtering baby white seals is ok in canadia

[fintstone]

I think that these put a homeowner in a bad position unless they have a huge property or a local herpetologist that wants them. You don't want them near your home to possibly bite a human or pet, and relocating them to someone else's property where they might do the same (or an edge of your property) is equally poor form...and might put you in some sort of legal jeopardy if they bit someone. If you move them to the far side of you property, they seem to come back...with friends. I have had snakes get into my house and this one would be even less welcome than the last rat snake. One of my renters have had two copperheads like this one inside their home .

I leave nonpoisonous snakes alone, but I am afraid that I would have had to kill a copperhead next to my house. I killed hundreds as a kid around the homestead and the supply never seemed to run out. Yes...I know...I am an...

[MBAtarga]

Friend's wife got bit on the hand by a small Copperhead when doing some work in her flower bed. I think she spent about 3 days in the hospital and incurred about $80k in costs for the antivenom.

[Rtrorkt]

personally, I leave the rattlesnakes alone in my yard. keeps the rats down but

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/29/717467217/summer-bummer-a-young-campers-142-938-snakebite

[Tobra]

Wife got bit by a copperhead and it was two years before she wore a shoe on that foot.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by javadog

I generally pick them up with a suitable snake picker-upper device, place them into a container they can’t escape from and drive them in my car to another part of town.

Do.
Not.
Like.
Poisonous.
Snakes.

Nor do I like poisonous spiders, scorpions, etc.

Knowing you, I presume across the RR tracks to the Hood....

[steve185]

That's strange since slaughtering baby white seals is ok in canadia

I think it's a fair trade, you keep the poisonous snakes and we will keep clubin.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by tabs

Knowing you, I presume across the RR tracks to the Hood....

No, the hood is too far away. Gas prices being what they are, I gotta save when I can.

[SCadaddle]

We always said when Land Surveying in the woods when the snakes were out that the first person on the crew walking through the woods wakes them up, the second person pisses them off and the third person gets bit. It never fails, during the early spring and late fall when cutting line through the woods in the morning you probably wouldn't see a snake. But the closer you got to noon and the sun being high, the snakes would wind up on your cut line to get some sun. That's when you run across them walking back down the cut line to move equipment forward or go to lunch. As for the copperheads, they didn't survive any of the surveying crews I was ever working on.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by javadog

I would have relocated that son of a *****, far, far from my house.

They would be relocated for sure, but I have no desire to take on the task myself. I called the local Snakenator to come inspect my house. We found a small milk snake in our rec room last week and last fall I found a snake skin above the drop ceiling in the same room. I suspect we have a family of them living in our ceiling. He'll put out traps and relocate any he finds to a state park.