tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post4904004008356683538..comments2024-03-28T18:02:12.286-04:00Comments on southern orders: WHERE IS SAINT PATRICK WHEN YOU NEED HIM??????Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-12828321304049246472017-05-15T11:19:53.326-04:002017-05-15T11:19:53.326-04:00Did you see the snakes vs iguanas segment on Plane...Did you see the snakes vs iguanas segment on Planet Earth II? Best thing on TV for years:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv9hn4IGofMJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13873507031809422203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-30203055813894641262017-05-15T08:54:49.025-04:002017-05-15T08:54:49.025-04:00Up here in Atlanta, when someone is bitten by a po...Up here in Atlanta, when someone is bitten by a poisonous snake, it almost always is a copperhead---a painful bite, but not nearly as dangerous as bites from poisonous snakes more common below the Gnat Line---coral snakes, rattlesnakes and the aggressive water moccasin. Even inside the densely populated city, there are enough woods to support some of those populations, some not even far from downtown. A few years ago I recall some people dying from rattlesnake bites in the rural Piedmont, near Greensboro and Monticello. Of course as the Atlanta area continues to build up and out, the snake population gets pushed further out.<br /><br />But usually no alligators up here...when they are, sometimes it is someone who foolishly keeps one as a pet, and when it gets too big, dumps it in the Chattahoochee...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-9997459648604909102017-05-15T07:34:07.186-04:002017-05-15T07:34:07.186-04:00Copperheads have a strong smell. I have heard it d...Copperheads have a strong smell. I have heard it describes as like cucumbers. I don't think so, but it is a strong and unusual odor so it should alert you. They are viviporous so they bear live young in large batches. This is, IMO, the most danderous trait. They will bear the young in a sunny patch of grass where an unsuspecting person might walk by. The venom of young copperheads is as potent as the adults, more concentrated actually, and you can get beset by a cluster of the spawn if you step in them. So they don't make good pets. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.com