We seemed to find them hiding under our bushes often
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Originally posted by Dale Moser View PostI didn’t grow up around copperheads, but I have heard when the cicadas start chattering you can go outside at night with a flashlight under oak trees and find copperheads pretty regularly.
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Cats, get some outdoor cats. If they don't kill the big snakes, they'll kill the food the bastages are looking for, including all insects. Just feed em enough to hang around.
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Originally posted by SabineHunter View PostCats, get some outdoor cats. If they don't kill the big snakes, they'll kill the food the bastages are looking for, including all insects. Just feed em enough to hang around.
Man my neighbors have 2 big cats and people across the street have them too. Three of them spend much of their day lounging or hunting the storm drain which is a few feet from where this snake was. They have killed a few but population is there.
My daughter saw my dog shaking one last month right in the same spot. It’s the end of the dog cable run. Was gonna go to a de-snaking clinic but apparently she can handle them.
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Pretty popular photo showing a copperhead with a moth ball.
Before we moved from Texas, it wasn’t uncommon for me to kill a few a week. We kept the grass short and cut all the ground cover down. Cleaned up the yard best we could and we would still have them when the cicadas showed up. I’ve had some real close calls with them and my mil actually got bit on the foot by one.
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A friend of mine is a biologist and did a lot of Herpetological research. They placed gps,s in some snakes and found that they actually have a very small territory that they live in. You can set up your own snake hides, pieces of tin, wood, etc, they can hide under and find em there. A good king snake population will help keep em down as well.
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Originally posted by TexaRican View PostMan my neighbors have 2 big cats and people across the street have them too. Three of them spend much of their day lounging or hunting the storm drain which is a few feet from where this snake was. They have killed a few but population is there.
My daughter saw my dog shaking one last month right in the same spot. It’s the end of the dog cable run. Was gonna go to a de-snaking clinic but apparently she can handle them.
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Anyway, I don’t like snakes and I really don’t like my dogs getting snake bit.
Also, it sounds like you need more cats.Last edited by El General; 09-18-2021, 04:44 AM.
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Originally posted by Buckshot4900 View PostI use to live in Grandview about 6 miles west of town and had rat snakes because of 180 acres of corn next door and field mice kept them plenty to eat. About a year before I left there, I killed 7 large copperheads.
I gues the rat snakes were too full to eat them.
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been on my place 10 years now , have yet to see a copper head, but I have seen more moccasins than I want! Killed another baby one last night, about 12" he makes the 3rd since spring, so I know there are plenty I am not seeing.
he got a dose of 9mm hp, since all I had with me was that and a can of ant poison which is what I was outside to do.
i am a firm believer in the cats because a couple years ago we had several that hung around, once they moved on or died off i have seen more snakes,,, i just have to figure out how to convince the wife we need a few cats hanging around.
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