Copperhead's - Page 2

BWSmith · 06-08-03, 12:31 PM

Dang, I missed most of the conversation before it got edited.

Perhaps this needs to be addressed in more detail in the venomous forum. Copperhead, if you are thinking of getting into hots, please visit the venomous forum and read as much as you can, there is some great info there.

XxRachxX · 06-08-03, 12:42 PM

copperhead didnt actually say he was going to keep the snakes! he might have only wanted to catch them and look at them?

SCReptiles · 06-08-03, 01:17 PM

BW Smith, didn’t miss much. Anthony and I are pretty much neighbors. We squabbled a little bit this morning, but ended up seeing eye to eye. (I think) =) All is well now. Good advice to copperhead, so long as people will actually give him advice rather then simply tell him not to keep them.

SCReptiles · 06-08-03, 01:20 PM

XxRachxX, good observation. I didn’t notice that. Usually it’s implied if you intend to catch them, you intend to keep them, but you may have a point.

shaggybill · 06-08-03, 02:34 PM

Thanks for the advice, ScReptiles.

When I go out to "catch" snakes, I have no intention to keep them. I just like to look at them.

I just went out for another 3 hours and didnt see anything other than a few turtles. I swear, the locals must have killed every snake around here. Stupid locals...

copperhead · 06-08-03, 07:07 PM

Hey, thanx a lot you guys for all your help. I have already caught my first copperhead a couple of days ago. We were cleaning out a pool and he flopped out of the skimmers. i quick ran back to the shop and made a hook out of a nail and a stick... i played with him for a little bit in the 8 inches of water before i got him into the bucket. The lid is a extremely secured lit that screwes on. it was fun looking at him. I let him go that evening. He was only about a year old judging by the size of him. he was about as big as my finger and about a foot long. real pretty thing though.

Thanx again for all your help.

copperhead · 06-08-03, 07:08 PM

yeah. i'll go check out the venemous forum.. thanx

TardGirl · 06-09-03, 11:23 PM

I live close to salisbury N.C. i have found about 7 black rat snakes 2 worm snakes and 1 baby copperhead before, I am still looking for a kingsnake though. But it's hard to find them during the day down here cause it's gets so hot out. I have found that the best time is like an hour or two after the sun goes down. I hope that you find some snakes, Happy hunting

TardGirl · 06-09-03, 11:38 PM

I know what you mean shaggybill, About all of the locals killing the snakes. Well most of them do just kill them everyone i talk to is like yeah the other day there was this big black snake in my front yard so i took his head off with a shovel, or like they will say that they kill all the copperheads that they ever see. someone even burnt the head off of this scarlet snake with a lighter before, When i found the little guy he was not even moving much, he died like 5 min later. Most of the people here just kill the snakes if they see them. If i find them i just look at them for a while and them take them up the road were nobody ever goes so that they will not find them. Sorry that you have not found anything yet, I would just like to yell at all of the people that go and kill a snake before even finding out like what kind it is or anything, Half of the time the snake is harmless.

shaggybill · 06-14-03, 05:35 PM

hi tardgirl. I just got back from my NC trip. What you said about people just killing any snake is right. one of my best freinds down there was telling me about how he let his german shepherds tear apart a "black snake." I was like, "yeah, please tell me more. That just what I want to hear." Some of the people though will let any snake go but a copperhead. My grandma will kill any snake she finds and this week I showed her some cool stuff about snakes and she seemed a little impressed, so hopefully that will help out a little.

TardGirl · 06-16-03, 12:20 AM

I'm glad that you got to tell someone some good stuff about snakes. Every time i try to tell someone they just walk away or cover there ears, Most of them just need to grow up.It seems that some people don't want to hear anything they just want to believe what they want to. Today right on the road that i live on there was a dead corn snake. looks like someone went out of there way to hit him

I like it when people will just listen for a change and learn stuff so that maybe next time they go to kill that little snake in there yard they will think twice. I'm glad to hear though that you found yourself some snakes, Sorry you found no copperheads.I found one the other day a baby one, Yeah by the way someone was trying to kill him also, stupid people

But i saved his life, even though the people thought that i was nuts. I hope that if you ever come back to NC you will be able to find a copperhead. Best of luck shaggybill

Smilts · 06-26-03, 02:27 AM

IM OLDER THAN HIM AND NEVER WANT A HOT SNAKE BUT WY CALL THEM HOT I KNOW VENOM AND POISON AND SUCH ISNT THE SAME JUST WONDERING

BWSmith · 07-01-03, 02:11 PM

A little hard to follow, but I'll give it a shot.

Venom and Poison are different. Venom must go intot he bloodstream to be effective, poison is ingested or absorbed through the skin. So snakes and spiders are venomous and plants and frogs can be poisonous.