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Spotted this Prairie Rattlesnake out my window a few mornings ago. Photos safely snapped from my deck above! I estimated him at 40" long, easily the biggest I have seen. We have bull snakes around that exceed 6', but the rattlers are usually not this big....  

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But a snake in the grass... gotta be careful!

That is when you need to be wearing one of these. I am relieved you "Survived" the encounter. Cheers, respo ...  

Almost impossible to spot! Still, the reality is these snakes will not strike unless threatened. The danger here is if you step on one or too close to one that you don't see. With children and a small dog, we have to always be vigilant to check our surrou...  

Killing them with no apparent reason, really makes me mad.

Sure this type of snake is potentially dangerous but so are many things, living or not, in certain circumstances. When I was a kid I was fascinated with snakes. My father grew to hate snakes from his government mandated camping trip to the Vietnamese jung... 

I have no reason to harm one unless it is entering the house or garage. I am not skilled enough to relocate them.

The youngsters release more with a strike. I also read that an adult only uses their venom on 2/3 of their strikes... apparently they conserve it when they don't feel it is necessary to release.

Phew!

I am calling to mind the movie Anaconda now!

I have posted on this topic before as I see these snakes from time to time, and for many it is very rare to ever see a snake, letalone one like this.

But I am perfectly happy living in a snake-free country And I am becoming more and more against croc or snake straps btw

As we all now, many new watches are supplied on such straps, but I cannot remember the last time I purchased one. I'm done with that.

In my area we only have the massassauga rattler to contend with for venomous snakes, but they are docile in comparison. Great photos, the slender curve is juxtaposed very nicely against the green grass. I agree with your live-and-let-live sentiments; so l... 

This whackjob lady actually called me yesterday to ask why I did not kill it on site. I told her I am not in the business of hunting down a creature that is just passing through. She disagreed with my approach, we exchanged some other remarks to each othe... 

Living in an area with plenty of poisonous snakes, I'm afraid that we (people) and they (rattlers) don't coexist very well. Like when I found a young kid up at the park, poking in the grass with a stick at a rattler. The child wasn't old enough or hadn't ...  

but an exceptionally funny scene in a locally-filmed movie called Killer Tomatoes Eat France (I've mentioned this before) had a scene where the hero comes down the stairs of a castle and they drop a bunch of roller skates down on top of him. He starts scr... 

It reminds me when I was based in Wichita Dalls (northern Texas at the border with Oklahoma Abd half way in between Dallas and Amarillo) Our house was the last one on the compound and beyond our fence the first 80 miles were just prairie. We occasionally ... 

not have made it to the next expansion joint in the sidewalk.

Did you guys know that if you cut the head off of a rattlesnake it can still bite for up to an hour, maybe longer.

I have a friend in South Dakota who has a rattlesnake that has taken up residence near his home. I presume that might be a Prairie rattler. I have only seen a live rattlesnake in the wild once — on a dirt road, after an afternoon of dove hunting in Arizon...