Hunting partner is not too smart!!!!

Let's keep this one on topic guys.

I took another look at the OP's photo, and it looks like that snake has had a recent meal, making him look a little fatter. Still big for a Pygmy though.
 
correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't need to know the type of snake when bitten anymore- the antivenom is universal in most places?

I've heard that a lot, yet on "I Survived" shows as one example the Dr's need to know...?

I know a marine that had a spider killed on his forehead with blunt force - the medic made the soldiers go back and get the dead spider
 
The only good snake is a dead snake. if they cant hurt me then they will make me hurt myself trying to get away from the damn thing. i hate then boogers.
 
youngunz4life

This is from one of my wife's Vet books.

Antivenins effective against only one given species are classified as "Monovalent" whereby antivenins effective against a broad range of species are classified as "Polyvalent". For instance, there is not a specific Antivenom developed for an Australian Copperhead bite strike so emergency medical providers are advised to use either Tiger Snake Antivenom or a polyvalent one.
 
Snakes did seem bigger in central Florida, when I lived there
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That's because there are some really big ones down here. I had a 4 1/2 footer sneak up on me while dove hunting. At 4 1/2 ft long, he was as big around as my forearm and his head was almost as wide as my fist.
 
The timber rattlers in south Georgia grow to large size. Back a tad over 50 years ago at the Thomasville airport, my wife encountered one stretched across an access road. It was longer than her '54 Corvette was wide. She backed away and took a different road...
 
Here's a BIG Florida snake...13'-2" in this pic back in 2002. She died later that year, while back in the care of her owner. I had the pleasure of baby-sitting "Kemo" while her owner found himself, incarcerated for 6 months.

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All you PETA members who would save the poor little snakey crack me up.

You obviously have not seen what a bite from a venomous snake can do to a human being.
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Have you ever seen what humans can do to other humans, but nobody is suggesting we kill all the humans we see.
 
Have you ever seen what humans can do to other humans, but nobody is suggesting we kill all the humans we see.
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HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...............if we remove all of the safety warning labels....................................;)
 
Had no idea this was going to turn into a discussion of the merits of killing or not killing every snake we stumble on in the woods.

Louann & I obviously land on the side of the "has to be a good reason to kill it" argument. And I will say there are some........and they have been pointed out, everything from concerns for the safety of dogs working a area to a snakes proximity to a stand you will be going back and fourth to.......or to eat.

But among all the good reasons to kill a snake one of them is not simply because it is a snake and therefor has a potential to cause harm.

Double Naught seems to have it right.
 
Household flies sure as heck aint poisonous and I dont need a reason to kill them. I bet alot of the people saying we need a good reason for killing something wouldnt hesitate to swat a bunch of flies.
 
reloader28, what environmental role do houseflies and mosquitos play? Other than feeding bats...

Make the argument about honeybees, though, and the answers would change.
 
Doesnt matter what it is.
Gods creatures are Gods creatures no matter what it is. It dont matter if its an elephant or a slug.
Why He in vented some of them is beyond me.
 
No poisonous snakes on the wet side of the Cascades so it's not a problem I have to deal with.

On the dry side they have the common prairie rattler. Unless you spend a lot of time there you won't see many.

We have one rule though for both sides. Don't pick it up.
 
That seems rather large to be a pygmy rattler.

I agree, however; It is definitely a pit viper.


I'm not going to get into the "kill vs don't kill" debate, other than to say I would have just let it go.

If any of you knew the area he lives in, you would understand there is nothing to be gained by killing a single venomous snake. Kill one, and thirty take its place.
 
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