Second, you can't kill it, is against the law. Did you get any photos?.
Joey Bloggs said:
Second, you can't kill it, is against the law. Did you get any photos?
We apparently don't have that law here. When we first bought our place, the creek bank was heavily overgrown creating a haven for cottonmouth water moccasins. They grow quite large and are aggressive. We killed a goodly number of them until we cleared the brush from the creek banks. We haven't seen one for 5+ years. We still have several variety of harmless water snakes, but those don't bother us.
Our biggest problem are copperheads. Though poisonous, they aren't deadly to anyone over 40 lbs. Their bite cause necrotizing of the flesh around the bite marks. Fortunately, we are 10 minutes from the emergency room.
Our biggest ally is our barn cat,Clementine. She has decimated the rodent population around here removing their food source. Occasionally she will bring us a dead copperhead as a "gift" at our door. Since her arrival, we only see one or two a year and those are generally found by our yard men.
I'll tell you how I killed a cottonmouth once. That sucker was about 6 feet long and nearly as thick as my wrist. I got by pole pruner, that I use to trim trees, and lopped his head clean off. It took a little bit of effort. But you know that snake that you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.....well I did.
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