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Pet Rattlesnakes #7234371
04/03/21 06:56 PM
04/03/21 06:56 PM
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Posts: 3,928
NY
Canvasback2 Offline OP
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Canvasback2  Offline OP
trapper

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NY
Yeah, not for me !!!


Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234381
04/03/21 07:04 PM
04/03/21 07:04 PM
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Posts: 7,217
W NY
Turtledale Online content
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Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 7,217
W NY
Stupid is as stupid does


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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234408
04/03/21 07:36 PM
04/03/21 07:36 PM
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williamsburg ks
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williamsburg ks
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.


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234410
04/03/21 07:41 PM
04/03/21 07:41 PM
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Tennessee
Scuba1 Offline
"color blind Kraut"
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Tennessee
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.


Let's go Brandon

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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234489
04/03/21 09:16 PM
04/03/21 09:16 PM
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Posts: 11,896
Oakland, MS
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Oakland, MS
Those folks ain't wrapped right.


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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234575
04/03/21 10:34 PM
04/03/21 10:34 PM
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Wyoming
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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.


“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli

Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Scuba1] #7234581
04/03/21 10:36 PM
04/03/21 10:36 PM
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N. Carolina
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Scout1 Offline
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N. Carolina
Originally Posted by Scuba1
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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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234584
04/03/21 10:39 PM
04/03/21 10:39 PM
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Central, SD
Law Dog Offline
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I don’t mind snakes but I’m not kissing any of them things.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234587
04/03/21 10:42 PM
04/03/21 10:42 PM
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fayette,al.
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fayette,al.
Best Snake is Dead Snake

Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Scuba1] #7234590
04/03/21 10:44 PM
04/03/21 10:44 PM
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New York border
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New York border
Originally Posted by Scuba1
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.

Much respect and think you are nuts......lol

Last edited by Cragar; 04/03/21 11:06 PM.

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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: grisseldog] #7234601
04/03/21 11:04 PM
04/03/21 11:04 PM
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Central Oregon
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Originally Posted by grisseldog
Best Snake is Dead Snake


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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234602
04/03/21 11:05 PM
04/03/21 11:05 PM
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Posts: 5,366
New York border
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New York border
Good ole Ernest (Jim Varney) run time - 2:26



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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Turtledale] #7234623
04/03/21 11:31 PM
04/03/21 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Turtledale
Stupid is as stupid does

X2

Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234677
04/04/21 03:03 AM
04/04/21 03:03 AM
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NY
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Oh HEYYYYY NO!!


Hiding our humane dispatches doesn't keep the Antis from showing their own gruesome ones. In this 1 sided story, who will the public believe, then?
Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7234709
04/04/21 06:45 AM
04/04/21 06:45 AM
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Firth, Nebraska
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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.
grin


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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7235214
04/04/21 08:35 PM
04/04/21 08:35 PM
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The Hill Country of Texas
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I let em hang out in the freezer but I don't pet them


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Re: Pet Rattlesnakes [Re: Canvasback2] #7235236
04/04/21 09:09 PM
04/04/21 09:09 PM
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S/W Wisconsin
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What's the big deal, i do that all the time. Lol ha ha no way man aint happening any where near me.


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