Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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Most of you can remember when I killed a copperhead just three feet from Katie (my six year old) a couple months ago. Well today, Hannah, my oldest daughter (15) was out in the pasture grooming her horse, when this even bigger copperhead came crawling out from the woods a couple of yards from her. She knew I was sleeping, as I had gotten up at 5 am to go to a dentist in Richmond, and was taking an afternoon nap. So she went and got a shovel, and dispatched the beast herself. Pretty good shooting for a round-nosed shovel, huh? In the closeup of the head, you can see the fang hanging down, the pit between the eye and nostril (pit viper), and the cat eye, prevalent in all North American poisonous snakes except the coral snake.
Unlike Steve Irwin or other "animail experts", I do not release poisonous snakes back in the wild, to bite some child 3 weeks later. There's plenty of harmless good snakes to take care of the rodent population.
In the last photo is Katie doing her school work (home schooled) with her new pink hard cast on. In about 10 more days they will take that cast off, do more X-rays and if all looks good they will put her 3rd and final cast on. It will be even bigger and stay on for 4 more weeks.
Vernon
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Vernon
Unlike Steve Irwin or other "animail experts", I do not release poisonous snakes back in the wild, to bite some child 3 weeks later. There's plenty of harmless good snakes to take care of the rodent population.
In the last photo is Katie doing her school work (home schooled) with her new pink hard cast on. In about 10 more days they will take that cast off, do more X-rays and if all looks good they will put her 3rd and final cast on. It will be even bigger and stay on for 4 more weeks.
Vernon
[attachment 35344 Copperhead2.jpg]
[attachment 35342 head.jpg]
[attachment 35345 Katie.jpg]
Vernon