R-pod Owners Forum : Another Snake Story http://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : General non-pod discussion : Another Snake Story Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:42 +0000 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:44:34 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12221 R-pod Owners Forum http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png http://www.rpod-owners.com/ Another Snake Story : We have seen a lot of cottonmouth... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115370#115370 Author: Leo B
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 6:44pm

We have seen a lot of cottonmouth and a few rattle snakes on our travel in NC mostly around alligator river refuge. I got a lot of great pictures of them. we have an understanding, I don't bother them and they don't bother myself or my wife and I wont kill them. ]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:44:34 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115370#115370 Another Snake Story : Cottonmouth - only snake that... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115368#115368 Author: mcarter
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 5:51pm

Cottonmouth - only snake that has ever chased me. Happy tell me that when they are in bottom of your boat or in your flooded house. I've spent years with Cottonmouths, and rattlers and copperheads, just fortunate I guess. Rattlesnakes will retreat, copperheads will hide, cottonmouths will attack, so how long do you take to decide it's not aggression just a warning? What college professor wrote this?]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:51:29 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115368#115368 Another Snake Story : I wonder if the aquatic environment... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115367#115367 Author: Happy Tripping
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 5:43pm

I wonder if the aquatic environment makes snakes a tad more reliant on threat displays than purely terrestrial snakes? Certainly nonvenomous water snakes have not been shy, in my experience. 

This link suggests that cottonmouths' threat displays may be more common than actual aggression.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051121020750/http://www.uga.edu/srel/Reprint/2583.htm


I have no experience with rattlesnakes but in my (limited) experience, I have found copperheads to be interested only in avoiding me. of course, that has been when they are free to escape and not trapped or grabbed, as in a woodpile.
]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:43:25 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115367#115367 Another Snake Story : Truth about the cottonmouth..... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115361#115361 Author: furpod
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 4:32pm

Truth about the cottonmouth.. very aggressive. When I was stationed at Ft. Stewart, we trained in them there swamps. A lot. I saw a cottonmouth attack all kinds of things, soldiers, groups of soldiers, water buffalo (the wheeled water carrying kind), APC, jeeps, even once, started to climb down off my tank, and one was striking at the front road wheel.. that's a bas add snake to take on a 64 ton tank.. LOL

I have seen video of them from the western end of Kentucky, literally dropping in to canoes, on the offense. Luckily, we don't live in the swampy part of the state, rattlers and copper heads are what we have. And I have never seen one of either on our property, but have seen lots of snakes.
]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:32:41 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115361#115361 Another Snake Story : Good my friend http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115357#115357 Author: mcarter
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 4:21pm

Good my friend
]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:21:02 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115357#115357 Another Snake Story : So far no but we are not in any... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115356#115356 Author: StephenH
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 4:19pm

So far no but we are not in any of the worst affected areas.We just had a lot of small branches and leaves down. Thankfully, I had a couple of problem trees removed before we left (dying Elm and Poplar with signs of insect infestation (rows of woodpecker holes)). We were away when the storm hit and got home just for the tail end of the rain as it finally turned north.
]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:19:44 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115356#115356 Another Snake Story : Bless all of you in the Carolina's.... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115352#115352 Author: mcarter
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Posted: 20 Sep 2018 at 3:48pm

Bless all of you in the Carolina's. Are you having snake issues?

After storm in gulf my daughter called, she had a Cottonmouth on front porch and he was not friendly. Hissed, (like cat she said) and struck at my granddaughter. Small creek behind my house in TX and he must have come out of there with high water. I have never seen a more aggressive snake that Cottonmouths, they will go on the offense.]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:48:47 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=12221&PID=115352#115352