Dangerous Animals in your area.....domestic or wild, exempting Humans.

**Brazito** · 10-21-2010, 02:07 AM

Do all y'all with rattlesnakes in your hood clean them and eat them?
Good stuff Maynard.
I keep hearing stories about timber rattlers around here but nobody will show me where.

**EdD270** · 10-24-2010, 12:09 AM

Let's see, here in the White Mountains of Arizona we have, in no particular order: mountain lions, bears, rattle snakes, scorpions, centipedes, bees, wasps, deer, elk, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, javelina, dogs (both wild and domestic), and the occassionla jaguar and coati-mundi.
Yes, we have to be awake when out in the boonies.

**Beans** · 10-24-2010, 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

Batch - while I agree with you that here, in the United States, diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are very treatable if detected early enough, the same is not true world wide. The last time I saw numbers - in the US there were (memory is a little fuzzy) around 25 to 35 deaths a year in the US from mosquito borne illnesses. That number approaches 3,000,000 world wide each year.

CDC reports 32 deaths in 2009 as the result of West Niles virus

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/west...9_detailed.htm

**Beans** · 10-24-2010, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by Brazito

Do all y'all with rattlesnakes in your hood clean them and eat them?
Good stuff Maynard.
I keep hearing stories about timber rattlers around here but nobody will show me where.

I grew up across the river from you 1944--1960. on a farm around Lewistown Mo

We had water moccasins, cotton mouths, red racers but I never seen a timber rattles in that area.

**FVR** · 10-24-2010, 09:43 AM

Let's see, in my backyard and across the street;

Black bears, rattle snakes, water mocs., copperheads, scorpions, black widows, brown recluse, hornets, coyotes, bobcats, wild hogs, and some wild dogs.

Don't really worry about them. I will kill the scorpions, black widows, brown recluse, and poisonous snakes around the house because of the kids and dogs. Out in the woods or even on the job, don't kill any of them.

I mostly see black widow spiders at work. I will bang on the vaults, they go to the bottom, I do what I need and get out.

My belief is that they are just trying to survive, why should I take that away from them, except around the kids and dogs.

**Batch** · 10-24-2010, 10:17 AM

We have a very healthy population of Eastern Diamondback Rattlers. But, you don't see them very often unless they are moving. They have very good camouflage and tend to set up ambush points for their prey. Even if it set up near a trail you are walking, it is going to rely on its camouflage and keep its rattle still and let the giant human go by without calling attention to its self.

Most of the rattlers will lie in the palmettos. We use caution when moving through the palmettos for that reason. I see a lot more pygmy rattlers and they just lay there. I've tapped them on the nose with an arrow and they just sit there.

This video shows why you don't see many and also a typical reaction to being messed with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ngWC9eSic

This snake was originally reported as 15'. LOL I kept telling people there wasn't no way. But, people would rather believe what they have heard and not look at facts. You google 15' or 14' rattle snake and pictures and articles will talk about this one.

Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

http://www.mefeedia.com/news/24019245

I run into people all the time (my dad and brother) who will swear that they have seen 10' or 12' rattle snakes. Even after I remind them that no one has ever documented a rattler larger than 96". They say I know but...

Even with all of the herps out there and all of the rattle snake round ups. They all still say I know but... Or I know what I saw. LOL He was right there stretched across alligator alley and his tail was still in the brush and his head was off the other side striking at skunk ape. His head was nigh as big as ole skunk apes foot and that's a bigfoot!

**Justin Case** · 10-24-2010, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Batch

We have a very healthy population of Eastern Diamondback Rattlers. But, you don't see them very often unless they are moving. They have very good camouflage and tend to set up ambush points for their prey. Even if it set up near a trail you are walking, it is going to rely on its camouflage and keep its rattle still and let the giant human go by without calling attention to its self.

Most of the rattlers will lie in the palmettos. We use caution when moving through the palmettos for that reason. I see a lot more pygmy rattlers and they just lay there. I've tapped them on the nose with an arrow and they just sit there.

This video shows why you don't see many and also a typical reaction to being messed with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ngWC9eSic

This snake was originally reported as 15'. LOL I kept telling people there wasn't no way. But, people would rather believe what they have heard and not look at facts. You google 15' or 14' rattle snake and pictures and articles will talk about this one.

Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

http://www.mefeedia.com/news/24019245

I run into people all the time (my dad and brother) who will swear that they have seen 10' or 12' rattle snakes. Even after I remind them that no one has ever documented a rattler larger than 96". They say I know but...

Even with all of the herps out there and all of the rattle snake round ups. They all still say I know but... Or I know what I saw. LOL He was right there stretched across alligator alley and his tail was still in the brush and his head was off the other side striking at skunk ape. His head was nigh as big as ole skunk apes foot and that's a bigfoot!

Oh yeah,,,, Snopes looked at this one > http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/15ftrattler.asp