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I kept a copperhead, a western diamond back and a prairie rattler in an aquarium for about a year I guess. They got along just fine. I came home one day to find several high school kids in my house "just wanting to see your snakes". So I gave the copperhead to a herpetologist at Tabor College, Hillsboro KS. Turned the rattlers loose in an old coal mine. They could see the light and sense the suns heat at the entrance. I figured they had a chance that way of knowing where to den up come winter. Neither rattler species are native to my area of KS but I imagine they did fine.
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The only hot snake I had in the past was a gaboon viper. I got it from a friend who moved into a place where the landlord was not happy about him having it. I have kept King and burmese pythons and some others . But that gaboon viper was the most beautifully patterned snake I have ever had.
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Had a copperhead while I was in high school. Mom killed it with a pry bar when she thought I was getting a little to comfortable with it. I never let go of the head like the guy in the vid.
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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes
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The only hot snake I had in the past was a gaboon viper. I got it from a friend who moved into a place where the landlord was not happy about him having it. I have kept King and burmese pythons and some others . But that gaboon viper was the most beautifully patterned snake I have ever had.
What did you ever do with the viper?
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The only hot snake I had in the past was a gaboon viper. I got it from a friend who moved into a place where the landlord was not happy about him having it. I have kept King and burmese pythons and some others . But that gaboon viper was the most beautifully patterned snake I have ever had.
Gaboon Viper is nuts. Seen one in a snake-aterium in Florida. Some of the longest fangs in a venomous snake.
I had a copperhead (small one) I found along the blue river when I was very young. I put it in a large jar with lid and I remember I had to keep it outside, mom said. Dad came home saw it and said where did you get that? I said I found it laying on an old dead log up on the river bank. He said do you know what that is and I said well I know its not a bull snake but was kind of cool pattern. And the eyes were neat. He said it was a little copper head and wanted to know where i found it was so I showed him where I found it and he piked around but didn't find any others. Dad was a logger then and evidently had a coworker nailed in the butt by one when sliding down a creek bank. Was not cool what it did to the guys touche. That snake would sit still as anything until someone walked by our put their hand near the jar then it would smack the jar hard repeatedly with strikes. Every time. Always struck several times, and hard. I remember about a day or two later dad took that jar and the coolest snake I'd ever personally caught and threw thr jar way up high and out into the river. I remember watching that jar sail into the sky. Holes in lid and all. My pet never had a chance but who knows what would have happened if my grade school little hands had got bit trying to handle it.
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