Hastings, Florida | Several weeks I was reading on-line a little neighborhood gossip type blog kind of like AgTalk. All the folks who live in my area post items of local interest. I mentioned I had killed a true coral snake on our main road, and advised everyone to keep an eye out for those rascals. This is the third I have killed over the years. You would of thought I suggested allowing a serial killer to live here. Folks told me not to kill them , they would come move them.Now we are talking coral snakes here, and they are very deadly, but these tree huggers do not see a danger in allowing these bad boys to be where we live, and kids play. Now I have re-located several rattlers, from urban / rural areas to the deep woods. I do believe they are pretty, but they have to go one way or the other .The last time my Dad REALLY got mad with me as a kid I had put a 4 -foot rattler in the back of my pick-up, and planned on moving him to the deep woods from where I had found him in a planted field. My Dad was walking towards my pick-up, to get some jumper cables, and I told him to not go near my truck. Now he hated all snakes, and when I told him the reason he should stay away from my truck, he sure lost it on me. The one snake I will always send to snake heaven is a moccasin, which I truly despise.Rattlers, I will try to move, If I can. If I can't , he gets a bullet. |