Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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While returning from a walk to the pond just now, with my wife and kids, the three older girls ran ahead with the dog. Katie, my 5 year old, was riding her her John Deere battery powered 4-wheeler. She would get ahead of my wife and me, and if she went around a corner and got out of sight, she would stop and wait for us. We were getting close to the pasture gate, so I told her to go ahead to the gate, and we would be right there (the gate was shut). We were about 35 yards from her, when we heard her screaming and crying, about a snake, and running toward us. Sharon got Katie, and I ran on forward to see what kind of snake it was (Katie's good at finding snakes). My worst fear came true, it was a copperhead, just 3 feet from her little 4-wheeler where she had been waiting for us. She said she was sitting there waiting, and she heard something in the leaves, and that the snake was crawling toward her. By now, Sharon and Katie had come up, and I pointed to the snake and said "That's a copperhead." I had my .45 auto as usual, but decided not to shoot it and blow it's whole head off. But I did commence to break my stout walking stick into three separate pieces on his head. And to think my other three girls and the dog had just run by here 60 seconds before.
I don't kill non-poisonous snakes. In fact, just yesterday, I tossed a 7 foot black snake into the woods from the pasture. But I will not tolerate or take a chance on a poisonous snake in places that my kids play. This copperhead was also just 30 feet from the kids' oak tree swing. I am always telling them, while walking through the woods or around the pond, to watch for snakes. We see lots, but this is the first copperhead that I've seen, since we moved to Virginia.
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I don't kill non-poisonous snakes. In fact, just yesterday, I tossed a 7 foot black snake into the woods from the pasture. But I will not tolerate or take a chance on a poisonous snake in places that my kids play. This copperhead was also just 30 feet from the kids' oak tree swing. I am always telling them, while walking through the woods or around the pond, to watch for snakes. We see lots, but this is the first copperhead that I've seen, since we moved to Virginia.
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[attachment 26983 CH.jpg]
[attachment 26984 Copperhead.jpg]