I'd be heading back North. No snakes for me

I would have backed off and called in an air strike. Wonder how many beaver get bitten or if they know to stay away. Have you ever caught a beaver with signs of a venomous snake bite?

Thank God we don't have them here!
How can you pick strawberries there with snakes like that there??!!

I would have backed off and called in an air strike. Wonder how many beaver get bitten or if they know to stay away. Have you ever caught a beaver with signs of a venomous snake bite?

Oddly they both get along with one another. I was waiting one evening for a beaver to come repair a dam so I could shoot him, a big cottonmouth came swimming by and parked his butt right beside the hole in the dam and curled up. Along came mr. beaver to repair the hole and as he was shoving and pushing mud and leave's in the hole he was also shoving that curled up cottonmouth around. I waited to see the cottonmouth light him up as his nose was only 2 inch's in front of the snake but that snake never made any attempt to bite that beaver!

And EVERY beaver lodge you find down here is covered in cottonmouths, they'll slide down into them during the heat of the day, them and beaver seem to live fine together!

YES I shot that stupid beaver after it never got snake bit, lol.

just about the time I think I should move my fat tail out of the snowbank you post something like this and I sit right back down

I am opposed to killing most venomous snakes, however If I had to trap in those southern swamps I would kill every cottonmouth that I came across. Once in awhile I come across a timber rattler and they want to get away from me, and that's OK with me..God Bless you Paul, you just would not find me wading through those southern swamps. Cottonmouths, big spiders, and gators are not for me.