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Rattlesnake Kacee had her first encounter with a rattlesnake this evening and I hope it will be her last. We were walking down the road, which is paved, and I noticed Kacee had walked over to look at something on the road. She's always checking out everything on the road, whether it's a stick or a blade of grass! Well I noticed she jumped back from it. I couldn't see anything, since the sun had already set. So I walked over and looked and there was this tiny rattlesnake no bigger than a pencil (if it was that big) and it was coiled and its tail was shaking just like the more mature version would do. There I was checking out her little nose just to make sure nothing happened. Since she didn't yelp or anything, I assume he didn't touch her. So, I guess I'll have to keep my eyes open even more than I have been. |
Glad your baby is okay!! darn snakes! |
Yeah, when we walk my head is on a spiral looking for big dogs or coyotes. I'm so overprotective. I was the same way with Muffin. It seems like there are so many dangers out their for these little one's. I was just so glad it was as small as it was. You couldn't really see it against the black pavement until you got up to it. |
Keep an eye out. Where there is one baby rattler, there are usually many more. |
that is interesting 'cause I had an encounter with a snake on sunday and Jerome was with my in the BACKYARD!!!I was getting water from the water hose to water my plants in the back porch, and Jerome was right next to me, then I feel something old and thought it was the water so I shook my foot, then I see Jerome looking down and moving and looking curious, I look down again and it was a snake not as big this one I would said was about the same size as the one you describe, so of course I screamed like a crazy woman, pick up Jerome and my huisband comes running and asked me what was wrong and he saw the snake, but told me it a grass snake?, I don't know but a snake is a snake to me and they just scare the crap out of me. So, I thought if the baby is round that means that momma is not that far, so forget about waering the flowers and got my butt and Jeromes inside the house |
Well we really have to be careful about the yards here. I have snakes & foxes & raccoons in my back yard. :) I didn't have Little Bit yet but one day my grandson and I came home to a baby alligator on our porch. |
I haven't seen racoons, but there are a lot of opposums at noght in the back yard or running along the fence. |
Ah, gee! Memories! When Muffin was just a puppy, she and I were in the yard at night and she started barking like a mad dog! There halfway under the fence was a oppossum! He wouldn't move. He was frozen and I couldn't catch Muffin for anything! I was in a panic, because she kept running up and I was afraid she'd get too close. I finally caught her, though. Thank goodness! How exhausting that was! That thing kept coming back into the yard repeatedly, so we had to kill it. Never saw another one in the yard, either. |
Rattlesnake I'm not sure where you live but here we have a new rattlesnake vaccine. I was going to check it out and see if it is appropriate for Yorkies. How scarey! I think I would have fainted! I have to worry about the screech owls! |
last year there was this baby oppossum that would come to the back yard by the back door and Kiki our cat would gop bananas everytime she would see it because the back door its aall glass. I was like why does he come to the same place evrynight? Well, it was junebug season and the opposum would come to eat the junebugs. I think it was cute b/c it was a baby so tiny helpless. So after june season past I didn't see it anymore. Sometimes I would wait until he fisnished eating so I could take the dogs out to pee.;) |
There is a vaccination for dogs - and if you live in an area where there are a lot of rattlesnakes, you should consider it. I think you get your first shot - and then one a month later - and a yearly one after that. (The shots aren't very expensive.) Worth checking out... Carol Jean |
I just watched a show on snakes. Baby rattlesnakes have more venom then an adult. Plus once they strike they keep striking. One bite from that little snake, your baby probably would have died. I'd walk during the day when there not so active. Never when the sun starts to go down. Good luck |
So glad everything turned out okay and you got yourself and your baby away from the snake! Hubby went up to our deer camp yesterday afternoon to do a few things and while driving into the camp, he saw a timber rattlesnake crossing the road so he shot it - took 2 shots to kill it! It measured 60 inches long, had 13 rattles and a button, and was HUGE - biggest rattlesnake I've ever seen (he brought it home to show the boys). This is the 2nd big rattlesnake killed near the camp in the past 3 weeks. It scares me because Gabby and Gage go to the camp with us. I never let them out by themselves because of racoons, bobcats, and various other "critters" up there but....it still scares me - I will be even more on the look-out now!! |
eeeeeek! That is a BIG rattlesnake.:eek: and I didn't know a little baby could be THAT dangerous, Pipersmommy. Thanks for the info.:( Little Miss Curiosity keeps me on my toes watching what she's after all of the time. We usually do go earlier, but I had to go to the supermarket after work yesterday, get dinner, and then we got to go for our walk. From now on, though, everything else can wait. We'll go earlier. Thanks everyone.:) This is a wonderful road to walk on. It's a development and the road is a mile long and it makes a circle at the other end and we walk back. The only traffic is the people who live here, mostly. |
Oh goodness I am very glad it didn't get her. |
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