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Animal control is here, and now we can't find the thing. It's at least 2 ft. long, maybe about 3.

Animal control is here, and now we can't find the thing. It's at least 2 ft. long, maybe about 3.
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[–] • 2 pts

We found a rattlesnake skin in Christmas decorations one year. That was an interesting time decorating the tree. Putting your hand in the bin was like reaching into that tree stump thing in Flash Gordon hoping the Wood Beast wasn't there. I have a tradesman weather/dust resistant toolbox for Christmas decorations now.

Snakes and I have a psychological understanding...if they don't bite me, I won't turn them into a wallet, cell phone case...options are likely limitless.

[–] • 1 pt

They say there's timber rattlers around these parts, though I've never heard one or seen one, aside from taxidermied specimens at the welcome centers of various nature preserves. Only other venomous guy here is the copperhead. Garters, milk, ring neck, ribbon and northern waters are the most common encounters. Therefore I have no problem with snakes.

[–] • 0 pt

I'm in California. We have rattlesnakes that eat rattlesnakes. 😂

I think I've seen two Kingsnakes while on the bike trails. No idea which one left its skin in the decorations, just that it was a rattler.

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I get what you mean, but snakes tend to eat snakes. King snakes are called kings because they dominate and eat other snakes.

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Timber rattlers protected in Texas.