Just killed a snake | SermonIndex

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dolfan Apr 27, 2016

My wife was letting our dog out for his nightly business trip when she spotted a snake in the Jackson vine on our house. It had eaten the baby robins we had admired earlier this evening. I knocked it down, vine and all, into the leafy flower bed and then hoed it to death. Thought about shooting it but feared ricochet off the brick. It rattled and in the dark it was hard to tell what kind of snake it was at first. It was just a chicken snake though. But that rattling action in those leaves had us believing it was a rattler for just a minute or two.

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sermonindex Apr 27, 2016

Good one, dolfan!

You know you can get .22 shot shells? I saw them one day as I was picking up some shot slugs for hunting season and was intrigued by them. Little .22 shot shells. I thought, "these should be good for all the snakes around my property." I picked some up but have never used them. Wonder how they would do? So, my son decapitated a copperhead the other day. I came home from work and saw this headless copperhead on the sidewalk. I said, "whoa!" Not noticing at first that it lost its head. I also took a pic. Maybe I'll post it somewhere. Evidently, it startled my son as he was skateboarding so out came the shovel. It certainly startled me. You don't want to mess with them.

Did you have snake steak and eggs the next morning? :-)

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dolfan Apr 27, 2016

No. I hear chicken snake tastes like chicken. :)

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TMK Apr 27, 2016

I am not generally fond of snakes- I always get that "oogy" feeling when I see them. I haven't seen a copperhead on my property yet- only garters.

I generally wouldn't kill a harmless snake but if I saw a black snake messing around our bluebird box he would meet a horrible demise. We are pretty convinced we had one clean out our bluebird box back at our house in Ohio. The thought of that is sickening.

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ginnyrose May 1, 2016

Glad you killed the thing - hate snakes. The only good one is the king snake ... the reason I call it good is because they will eat other snakes!

I hate snakes because they scare the willies out of me! BTW, you will not find me willingly visit a reptile house at a zoo.

Good job, Tim.

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sermonindex May 1, 2016

I've caught king snakes that were 5-6' long and had as many as 4-5 eggs in them. They help to eliminate any mice or rats but I hate to reach in a feed sack and find one. I used to re-locate but they come back so now I kill them.

Grandpa used to keep the old white porcelain door knobs in each of his nests. Snake can't digest or pass the door knob and death happens pretty quickly as we used to find dead snakes in the yard and garden. Wait a couple of days and let Nature take care of the remains and you got your door knob back. I think some folks are using golf balls for the same reason.

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dolfan May 2, 2016

That is pure genius. :D