Texas Gardening: Rattlesnake Round Up in Sweetwater, 1 by ejennings

ejennings wrote:
I grew up around snakes. As a kid I spent the weekends at our like house (Lake Jordon in AL). I've had a king snake, several corn, and hatched 3 rat snakes from eggs.
I never got this close to a rattle snake. We've caught 2 blind snkaes though in the past 2 years here.
We watched them milk the snakes. I didn't let my boys watch them skin them though.
Snakes are great in certain ways. But try teaching a young boys( 3 and almost 5) the difference between the ones that can hurt you and ones that won't.
It was a fun day for us though. Here's another picture!