Do you ever have problems with Danger Noodles?
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
May 21, 2023 7:46pm CST
Danger noodles is a term recently employed by Son1 to describe venomous snakes.
Yesterday, while K was trimming the hedges under our front windows, she had 2 snake encounters. Both ended badly for the snakes.
The first one was a garter snake. She didn't see it in the holly bush and decapitated it with the hedge clippers before she realized it was there. Had she seen it, she would have called me outside to rescue it and relocate it to our woods.
The second one was the danger noodle. It was a copperhead resting under a different holly bush. It was a youngster, barely over a foot long, and I would have rescued it had K not insisted that even banished to the far side of our woods it could come back and possibly hurt the dogs. I didn't like it, but I did dispatch it as humanely as I could.
Today, she saw no snakes but spotted a large turtle moving toward our woods. That's her in the photo. From what I can see, she appears to be a snapping turtle. I suspect she lives in a pond one street over and comes over to our woods to lay her eggs. I wonder if we'll spot some baby snapping turtles later this summer or if the raccoons will get all the eggs.
Is there an abundance of reptiles in your area? Do you eliminate the ones you find or do you live and let live?
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@Scrapper88 (5980)
• United States
22 May 23
The 2 reptiles I see most often are turtles and lizards. I do not see very many snakes around my home. I just let the turtles and lizards live their lives.
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@Scrapper88 (5980)
• United States
22 May 23
@DWDavis Sometimes; I have to use a cage trap to where I catch an animal alive and relocate the animal alive somewhere else. I do not like to kill an animal unless I have too.
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
22 May 23
I remember my sister and I picking up a huge rock when I was four, and she was six, and uncovering three huge copperheads. A quick scream to my dad and he got a shovel to remove their heads. The poor guy hates snakes, but put on his big boy pants for his kids. If it's poisonous, and threatening something, I'd kill it. I don't have the ability or money to get someone to relocate it. But if it's nowhere near me or my dog, then be your way you nasty snake.
Where I live right now, I have no fear of encountering snakes. Where my best friend lives though, out in the boonies, about 30 minutes away from me, she has to behead rattlesnakes all the time. She has too many dogs, cats, and goats to let them all get by on her acreage. She leaves the non venomous snakes alone though, to keep the other varmint population on her land under control.
I like your turtle. Snapping or not, it's cute!
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
22 May 23
Gee, it makes me think I should check the holly bushes for snakes They are around here. I manage to see 1 or 2 every summer
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
22 May 23
We have our share of critters. It depends on where they are and what they are doing. Now that I don't have chickens most get to live
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