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What part of KY you from?
I saw this guy at LBL close to KY line.
Timber rattler
Cool. I grew up catching handling and learning about snake in Western Kentucky, also. I spent a summer, running the nature hut for the Four River Counsel at the camp on Kentucky lake. The scouts loved handling snakes. I caught, kept and displayed, but did not let them handle the copper head or rattle snake. Good times!I love snakes very much. I've been handling them since I was about 5 or 6, even the 6ft. black snakes. I even like catching Copperheads sometimes, I don't care. Here are some snakes I've had the opportunity to photograph here in Kentucky.
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i played with him until he turned around to face me and coiled upThose are always cool. A neighbor killed one by our mailbox one morning, and when we measured it out, it measured 8 1/2 feet long.
St Patrick got rid of all ours. There are no snakes in Ireland. Snakes and man don't mix!I love snakes very much. I've been handling them since I was about 5 or 6, even the 6ft. black snakes. I even like catching Copperheads sometimes, I don't care. Here are some snakes I've had the opportunity to photograph here in Kentucky.
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Most of those are practically harmless, thow having rows of small teeth that can bring blood if you corner them and piss them off. Others can really become quite friendly and entertaining. You should avoid handling after they have just eaten, as it can upset them no matter how friend and accustomed to being picked up and handled. They become irritable, will snap at you to have you back off, and probably regurgitate the mouse you just fed them. They don't eat or have to eat often, but want to be left alone to digest their meal when they do.i played with him until he turned around to face me and coiled up
rattlesnakes are not harmless lolMost of those are practically harmless, thow having rows of small teeth that can bring blood if you corner them and piss them off. Others can really become quite friendly and entertaining. You should avoid handling after they have just eaten, as it can upset them no matter how friend and accustomed to being picked up and handled. They become irritable, will snap at you to have you back off, and probably regurgitate the mouse you just fed them. They don't eat or have to eat often, but want to be left alone to digest their meal when they do.
Definitely. I did not let the scouts handle or feed the two poisonous snakes, the camp commissioner and I caught, bare handed. They were relatively small. I have been known to kill larger pit vipers when there was really no way around it, when climbing on scout outings.rattlesnakes are not harmless lol
I have done both, even relocating near the house. Sometimes, even out in the back country, you cannot give them a wide berth. Killed an eastern diamond back on a high rock ledge above the Cumberland River, when he went into fight mode to stand his ground. Neither one of us really had any good way to go, so he had to go, anyway. Hated it, as I was in the snake's natural environment, and it was a good-looking healthy but very dangerous critter of decent size. I was climbing, not hiking and didn't have a safe way around or to deal with him except kill it, knock it off the side and continue.If I see a venomous snake around the camp or my home I kill them.
If I'm out in the woods hunting I just give them a wide berth.
