06-11-2008, 10:46 PM
I'm so glad someone here at BFT has a high respect for snakes. I share with TubeDude the same respect.
This silly attitude "The only good Rattlesnake is a dead Rattlesnake". Came from a guy that shot a 5 foot "Coontail" Rattlesnake.
Thats what a guy said when my step-dad, my mother and I were fishing a farm drainage ditch where the ditch met the Colorado River, this guy he shoots this 5 foot long Mohave Rattlesnake(they call them "Coontails" locally).
We hear this gunfire go off and he killed it. I could have seen it alive hadn't I walked down the sand dune from the snake.
I was going to walk where the snake was, it was at night and I had my flashlight of course.
When I saw the snake after this guy had killed it. It was huge. 5 foot long. I wasn't real offended when he shot it but still you should respect these animals.
Rattlesnakes help control rodent populations which are abundant along the Colorado River, also the Coyotes, another animal I love, help to reduce abundant Rabbit populations which eat the farmers alfalfa.
Yes I respect snakes, wouldn't want to get bit by one though.
We also seen Rattlers at my asphalt plant where I use to work in Arizona. Most of the time someone would kill them. But hey, the company had to show they were practicing safe work, you know[cool]
You won't ever hear of me killing one of them, nope, never.
Same with Tarantulas they get my respect. Scorpions are wonderful creatures too!
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This silly attitude "The only good Rattlesnake is a dead Rattlesnake". Came from a guy that shot a 5 foot "Coontail" Rattlesnake.
Thats what a guy said when my step-dad, my mother and I were fishing a farm drainage ditch where the ditch met the Colorado River, this guy he shoots this 5 foot long Mohave Rattlesnake(they call them "Coontails" locally).
We hear this gunfire go off and he killed it. I could have seen it alive hadn't I walked down the sand dune from the snake.
I was going to walk where the snake was, it was at night and I had my flashlight of course.
When I saw the snake after this guy had killed it. It was huge. 5 foot long. I wasn't real offended when he shot it but still you should respect these animals.
Rattlesnakes help control rodent populations which are abundant along the Colorado River, also the Coyotes, another animal I love, help to reduce abundant Rabbit populations which eat the farmers alfalfa.
Yes I respect snakes, wouldn't want to get bit by one though.
We also seen Rattlers at my asphalt plant where I use to work in Arizona. Most of the time someone would kill them. But hey, the company had to show they were practicing safe work, you know[cool]
You won't ever hear of me killing one of them, nope, never.
Same with Tarantulas they get my respect. Scorpions are wonderful creatures too!
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