laradactyl
Jr. Member
I have encountered lots of snakes in my life. I've been face to face with with everything from timber rattlers to earth worms and the only snake that has ever bothered to strike at me unprovoked was a copper head. He was near a cow path that I was walking, I never saw even saw him until after he struck and bounced off the sole of my boot. He immediately suffered a fatal dose of "lead poisoning". I have never trusted a copperhead since that day and refuse to let one live near my house, family, and dog. There have been other instances which lead me to believe that the local copperheads are quite aggressive snakes. The Texas Rat Snake is also very aggressive but non poisonous an I allow them to stay. I have one that lives in a old dead partially hollow tree in the back yard. I like having him around to help control the rodents around here. But I have had to chase him back into his tree on a couple of occasions when he and my dog were in in a stand off.