Close Encounter with viper

[Torvy]

Yesterday my wife was taking her daily afternoon walk with the dogs. Out on one of the easements she noticed something and the GSD pulled up on alert. There was a 6' Cottonmouth (aka Water Moccasin) with a small bunny.

Snake coiled around the bunny and did the classic Cottonmouth pose.

Kangal moves in that direction and the snake decided to leave. GSD ate the bunny.

I learned that apparently some snakes eat carrion. Wife said the bunny was headless. (Cats often just eat the head).

 

[WM75Guy]

Glad everyone is OK. It is that time of year to start looking out for them, I have taken out my fair share of them. Around here I treated patients with copperhead bites (most common), a corral snake bite, and a timber rattlesnake bite. Fortunately, the Cottonmouth will normally retreat if the option is available, the others stand their ground and strike out. In the 15 years I worked at the hospital as an RN we never treated a Cottonmouth bite patient in the ER.

 

[Tinhack]

Yep. This is the time of the year down here when Snakes, Scorpions and Yellow Jackets are making their presence known. I gotta get my Yellow Jacket trap built. Oh yeah, and the killer bees are out too. Had one interested in my DeWalt driver when I was putting up the Starlink antenna a couple of weeks ago. Pesky creatures but you don't dare swat at them.

 

[otlski]

Ha! It thought the Dewalt was the mothership.

 

[Torvy]

The two bigger dogs messed with a small copperhead last year. Both got bit in the mouth. Fluids and observation and they were fine, it was not.

 

[Tinhack]

Ha! It thought the Dewalt was the mothership.

Or a flower.