Forum | Look out for Mr. No-Shoulders...

Thanks but am in slightly better position than many,keep my place cut all of it,fenced dog yard and they arnt free ranging.Around fence lines and the pond it gets big enuff to hide something thats it and constantly watch those.

Most people here cut just around the house and the dogs they let run loose,another reason for the insurance dog clause here that I never ran into prior in ohio or w.va.

Another reason why I try to keep my place cut down,the rattlers are mostly lbl and trace which is the land inbeewteen barkley and kentucky,the pygmy is also in that area but to a lesser degree.Copperheads in woodsy areas over here,cottonbouths in swampy areas but not a heavy population but as one goes south more of them like big sandy has twice as many as Paris landing.

Places like the obion wetlands an hr west are chock full of them.One t5hinks of fla mostly when thinking of them yet the heavest populations in teh world are where the obion ends up at in kentucky at murphies pond at 720 per hectre,that works out to be one every 22 sq feet,or so.

Reelfoot coming in a close second.

Yes when it rains heavy even at my elevation I find critters up near the house turtles,and once a ringed water snake.

In three years of living here have seen one dead cottonmouth,never a live one and hope never to do so.

And am used to copperheads coming from w.va.,havnt seen any,most of these people cant tell the difference between a copperhead and a cornsnake,or a cottonmouth and a ringed water snake.

But caution is best advised,if you see one leave it alone,or dispatch from a distance,and then never actually handling.