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I have noticed in the last 3 or 4 years I have seen more copperheads in my back yard. My question is do they "den" up like other snakes?

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I'm not a fan of them. Gonna talk to my vet about that rattlesnake vaccine, I had to many dogs get bit last year.

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Yes they den. Where you see one they are more!! Kill em all.

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A friend of mine in MO has them come in around her house and kennel. She lives in the woods and the darn things will go under her porch and under the deck on her kennel. She says she can smell when they are around. A .410 works on them real well.

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Just wondered if they did den. We'll have to find where it is and give them a reason to leave I wonder why they seem to be drawn to dogs??? Somebody told me they like cedar trees and I do have a few in my yard.

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I'm not a fan of them. Gonna talk to my vet about that rattlesnake vaccine, I had to many dogs get bit last year.

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i have caughtem 4 over 40 years only seen 1 den-nest in a yard in a hollow tree when they were breding i dont take my dogs 2 vet for coppers

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I usually don't take them for copperheads either, had one get bit last year by the biggest copperhead I've ever seen, she was bit several times and was bleeding so took her to make sure she didn't get an infection. I just don't want to deal with them like last year...........way to many I figured it was the drought but maybe they just like my yard!!!

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Jess......they do den up..probly near some place,,,,,could be under house,,some place near the pens,,,,,they are there for food,,,, dog food bring in mice lookin for dropped morsels,,,,snakes are lookin for the mice......i put out moth balls were the dogs couldnt reach... napthalene is the main ingrediate in Snake Away......Moth balls are pure napthalene,,,,,,,,,Nasty and Fancy both got bit in the kennels at the trailer.......i just gave them benedryl for a few days ,,,plus and antibiotic that i had for a week,they were fine..

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I killed a copperhead today in my moms yard it was about a foot or so long,i was burning her leaves it was in the leaves.

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I killed a copperhead today in my moms yard it was about a foot or so long,i was burning her leaves it was in the leaves.

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them copperheads dont play, my ball and chain got bit on the foot by a copperhead. her foot swelled up so we took her to the hospital, they gave her a few shots and went home about 4 hours later. the doctor gave her about a thousand dollars worth of youll be allright. ive had plenty of dogs copperhead bit, i just lay them up a day or two and their ready to go again.

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Jess......they do den up..probly near some place,,,,,could be under house,,some place near the pens,,,,,they are there for food,,,, dog food bring in mice lookin for dropped morsels,,,,snakes are lookin for the mice......i put out moth balls were the dogs couldnt reach... napthalene is the main ingrediate in Snake Away......Moth balls are pure napthalene,,,,,,,,,Nasty and Fancy both got bit in the kennels at the trailer.......i just gave them benedryl for a few days ,,,plus and antibiotic that i had for a week,they were fine..

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All snakes gotta den up in cold weather ... but I never heard of copperheads denning up in numbers like a rattlesnake will ... it's kind of a fuzzy question.

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How did you know it? You must have smelt it frying. They are hard to see in leaves. He didn't even make a dash?

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he came out,so i beat him with the rake and tossed him back in..lol

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Never seen no legs,just the back of my moms going wide open the other way.lol

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we call snakes around here no shoulders.lol

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if you have one then you got two copper heads are all most always in pairs for some reason and they stink of a musky odor and i have never taken a dog to the vet for a copper head bit just use some pen. for about a week.

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they will den up........back in the early 90's i was an exterminator....i had a customer/hunting friend that ran a business,metal building...they were killing a copperhead or moccasin everyday....the man was deathly scared of snakes......i came out and sprayed LIndane around the outside of the building and up in the wholes around the outside,,,,,that day14 moccasins and around 20 copperheads came out that we killed.....sprayed it agin a week later.....killed 9 more snakes........this was in east texas...

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they will den up........back in the early 90's i was an exterminator....i had a customer/hunting friend that ran a business,metal building...they were killing a copperhead or moccasin everyday....the man was deathly scared of snakes......i came out and sprayed LIndane around the outside of the building and up in the wholes around the outside,,,,,that day14 moccasins and around 20 copperheads came out that we killed.....sprayed it agin a week later.....killed 9 more snakes........this was in east texas...

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Ummm let me just say HELL TO THE NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not going outside anymore............

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aw now Jess...........dont be scairt.....

you see track like this,,,,,be scairt.

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