Copperhead Snake.

[Turpentine21]

When I lived down south, the Copperhead got my greatest respect!

They blend near perfectly with the terrain….and seem to have an attitude at all times.

Generally you can smell a Cottonmouth before you see them, and unless in really nasty water….they don't blend in very well! Though, it seems that the majority of times I encountered them…..they had a traveling companion!

Rattlesnakes…..while blending in very good as well, will often OK sometimes, give you a little warning! memtb

They are definitely very hard for me to see. I can see them, look away for a second, look back and still have a hard time picking them out.
I've told this story before but I came back from a little beer drinking excursion upriver one Sunday evening which is a fairly regular event. Sandbar, feet in the water, I'm sure some can relate I Decided to go number 1 outside so I wouldn't have to aim and to save the flush. I don't have close neighbors. While doing the deed from the concrete under my house I heard a rustle of leaves in front of me. I was urinating on a 3 ft. Copperhead and he was close. I don't have the pressure I once had and clearing my toes is about all I can do. I'm just glad he decided to retreat. But being under my house I had to give him the shovel treatment.

I don't kill snakes indiscriminately. Poisonous snakes in the yard have to go. Also chicken snakes in the yard are dispatched now. They climb the cypress tree in the river in my front yard and raid the wood duck nests in it. I've killed them with as many as six duck eggs inside. Ducks have nested in that tree for years. They are fun to watch. They outrank the chicken snakes so I help them out if possible.

 

[lyle2231]

I had three kittens move in on our place a few years ago, not sure what happened to mom, so I started feeding them. They were good mousers; they would lay them on my porch before they ate them. I'm convinced they wanted me to see them. Too many coyotes out here in the Bird Creek bottoms, and one by one they disappeared, but I'm pretty much with you. Never been a cat fan.

Cats ain't bad if you marinate'em long enough

 

[DougsCamo]

When I lived down south, the Copperhead got my greatest respect!

They blend near perfectly with the terrain….and seem to have an attitude at all times.

Generally you can smell a Cottonmouth before you see them, and unless in really nasty water….they don't blend in very well! Though, it seems that the majority of times I encountered them…..they had a traveling companion!

Rattlesnakes…..while blending in very good as well, will often OK sometimes, give you a little warning! memtb

I daresay that 80% of the guys on this forum can't begin to hear a rattlesnake rattling anymore

 

[highfinblue]

I daresay that 80% of the guys on this forum can't begin to hear a rattlesnake rattling anymore

It would have to be louder than the ringing in my ears. A friend of mine says that's how he knows he's not deaf because he constantly hears the ringing.

 

[TBell]

I daresay that 80% of the guys on this forum can't begin to hear a rattlesnake rattling anymore

Your probably right, suspect they sound similar to our wives in tone.

 

[eshell]

I love cats, just can't eat a whole one.

 

[highfinblue]

I love cats, just can't eat a whole one.

My favorite buffet has cat on a stick and it's pretty tasty.