A.. YES.  Found this big guy in my garage yesterday . .

Yea, we have some in our area of Hoadly too. They are rare to see but we still are careful. Especially since we have two labs that are great dogs but dumber than a box of hair in some cases.

Oh, and did you kill it with fire? It is the only way to be sure.

 

Yea, they are good for rodent control.

FYI, if you have dogs and they get bit, a good dose of benadryl will help delay the poison until you can get them to the vet but you MUST get them to the vet.

The ASPCA has a chart for size of dog to dose of benadryl. For my 65lb chocolate lab the dose is 50mg. For the 80lb lab we can go up to 75mg (but that is at the high end)

Life lesson from my dad and granddad: Always watch for snakes. I never assume it's too cold, that there aren't any venomous species, etc. I never ever stick my hand in any kind of hole. Nope!

Also learned if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.

He'll yeah, they're all over lake ridge.

I killed 4 last year, one was about the size you posted, chillin on my front steps. Lucky as hell me and the dog both missed that step. Heard something strange then pulled my flashlight and saw him staring back at me. Scared the piss out of me. Neighbor nxt door said she saw one a few weeks ago too.

My dad's papillon (15lb dog) took a strike directly to the face.  Looked like a bull dog after a couple hours.  He took him to the vet, and they said to just watch him.  "Either he'll make it, or he won't.  There's no such thing as snake anti-venom for dogs".  His place is in Caroline, and he's seen more copperheads in the past couple years than in the past twenty.  This week he killed a large female with 11 young inside her.  I killed one last year at his place that had 9.  The strange thing is I haven't seen many black snakes around.  They usually do a pretty good job keeping the Copperhead numbers low, and eating the rodents too.  We need more black snakes around here.

Yes. I've run a few copperhead bites in the Prince lately.

jealous... havent seen a hot in PWC in quite some time

 

Yup, killed a few juvenile ones in the yard over by the stadium