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As much as we respect if not always love wildlife of all descriptions, we have to draw the line somewhere. We draw it at pit vipers. Even they have a place in the world; it's just not in our yard. It hasn't happened often, every year or two a large poisonous one will show up, and as we have no way of assuring that it will move on, we have to 'take steps.'
This snake is not being teased. The rake is there for scale, the snake has passed on.
This cottonmouth actually came from the Branch; he was posed here for dramatic effect. The flower box is three feet long.
This four-foot eight-inch timber rattler is the same one as in the with-rake shot above.
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