How sad for the garter snake.
My kids played with them when we came back to the farmhouse.
Sumner, Nebraska Rattlesnake
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My kids played with them when we came back to the farmhouse.
My double post is a result of this new glitchy website.
May be where I live and our signal.
This site really is frustrating recently.
May be where I live and our signal.
This site really is frustrating recently.
When my phone starts doing that I just click out of the site and back on and that usually fixes the issue.
I hate snakes BUT garter and bull snakes eat mice and little gophers which I hate even more.
I have a place at Lake McConaughy that backs up to the Sandhills and have seen many snakes, but I've never seen a rattler on the beach in the 35 years going out there. Go to the remote areas and you might. It does suck knowing I could end up dead walking around my place not paying attention and getting bit by a rattler. Knowing when they come out is important too but my heads always on swivel in the warmer months.
My orange Tomcat (yes, he's got his balls, I just tell my lib neighbors I got him a vasectomy
) killed a small copperhead about 2 weeks ago. I pulled up to the house about midnight and the snake was writhing & dying 2ft from my front door... Tall Tale was just sitting next to him watching a soft ***** die lol.
) killed a small copperhead about 2 weeks ago. I pulled up to the house about midnight and the snake was writhing & dying 2ft from my front door... Tall Tale was just sitting next to him watching a soft ***** die lol.Imo there were rattlesnakes over much of Nebraska until they homesteaded and started plowing the ground and the more acres that were broken up the snakes were kill off and or moved away
Bro, that story is what happened to me 2nd time I ever mowed as a kid.
Only I didn't see them till they were already banging around underneath and shooting out the side in pieces till I shut it off.
Still Nightmare Fuel to this day!
Can't even go get a Steak, without running into a Snake 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...pperhead-snake-longhorn-steakhouse/699163001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...pperhead-snake-longhorn-steakhouse/699163001/
If I had to choose between getting in a box with a lion or a gardner snake I will be facing the 300 lb lion every time! I hate snakes. I lived in a small Nebraska town for decades and I carried a judge (handgun that shoots 410 shells) for times I had a snake cross my path. Many times you would drive by my property and see my riding on my tractor with one hand on the door (while i had it in park) and the other hand shooting a snake.
My wife's brother lives in Cary, NC. His Black Lab got bit by a copperhead in their backyard. She was ok after a visit to the vet. Hard to see snakes in all the pine straw you have on ground back there.
I don't ever remember running into a rattler here in Nebraska. Not to say it hasn't happened because I had some friends bring a dead one home and show it off. But in all my time snake hunting in NP and the sandhills I've never once run into one. Plenty of bullsnakes a few kingsnakes/milksnakes, water snakes, but no rattlers. Maybe I was lucky.