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@Da_Gut #SnakeScreamSaturday is now a thing.
@Da_Gut oh gosh that is so teeny tiny
@tinheadned adults can reach 5 feet - though I haven’t seen one that large in decades. They remain drama queens.
@Da_Gut I have seen about two snakes in the UK in my entire life. We don't have many. Saw more in Canada, happily not dangerous ones
@tinheadned when 14, I spent 2 weeks in the hospital from a Copperhead snake bite. Even so, snakes aren’t very dangerous in the USA.
@Da_Gut THAT'S VERY DANGEROUS!
@tinheadned it was my fault. When I am at my computer, not my phone, I’ll write out the story. The snake lost, and deserves no blame
To boil it down (the Snakebite story)
I was trying to catch it. It was in sawdust.
I knew it was venomous.
I was 14.
There was a teenage female in the area - thus halving my already (14, remember?) low IQ.
Boom - snakebite!
Dead snake, still preserved in a jar of formaldehyde 40 years later.
@Da_Gut @aprilfollies so 1-1 between you and the snake? I think the most dangerous animal we have in the UK is a cow (which is pretty dangerous if it's mad)
@tinheadned @aprilfollies I lived and the snake died, so I would say 1-0 in favor of me....
@tinheadned @aprilfollies In High School a friend's dad was killed by a bull. So yeah, cattle can be dangerous.
@Da_Gut damn :(
@tinheadned Yeah. The bull was hand raised (part of an FFA (future farmers of america) project). For whatever reason, it grew up with a mean temperament. The bull respected the family dog, and it normally went with the dad when he went to feed the bull. Well, it didn't that evening, and the bull caught the father unawares and killed him. His wife shot the bull with a shotgun, killing it, to let the paramedics into the pasture... but too late.
@Da_Gut I heard a similar story bull attack story (from PA) last year although happily the farmer survived, although still needed a lot of surgery though
@tinheadned technically speaking, this little hognose is venomous. But, its a rear fanged snake species, with a venom specifically targeting cold blooded prey. From my (limited) understanding, they would have to chew on a human to actually inject any (not very effective) venom.
Even conventionally venomous snakes here (Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, etc) usually "dry bite", not injecting venom. That stuff is expensive to produce!
@tinheadned Copperheads - the most common snake to bite you in North GA - usually dry bite. They are ambush hunters, well camouflaged, don't like to move around much, etc. My wife was an ER nurse for a decade (mostly in Georgia), and they would see 4 or 5 copperhead bites every year. Normally when people were clearing brush, and they would be bitten on the arms. Only once per year or so would a significant amount of venom be injected.
@Da_Gut nope nope nope nope nope
