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I was putting my dogs outside to play in the fenced in yard. Sometimes my mom puts the dogs out in the dog pin out there and we haven't had time to cut the weeds around it. Well I was looking for some more toys and I went out to the pin and I saw a ball way in the back of the dog house so I lifted it up and underneath was a copperhead I screamed my head off and ran out and my austrailian shephard dog was getting in my way trying to bite my feet.
I was thinking about going back over there and see if its there but I decided not to.
I don't know what to do if i approach one in the garden. I am not afaid of garden snakes which I have seen out there. any other snake I run in scream
I was putting my dogs outside to play in the fenced in yard. Sometimes my mom puts the dogs out in the dog pin out there and we haven't had time to cut the weeds around it. Well I was looking for some more toys and I went out to the pin and I saw a ball way in the back of the dog house so I lifted it up and underneath was a copperhead I screamed my head off and ran out and my austrailian shephard dog was getting in my way trying to bite my feet.
I was thinking about going back over there and see if its there but I decided not to.
I don't know what to do if i approach one in the garden. I am not afaid of garden snakes which I have seen out there. any other snake I run in scream
Golly, I didn't realize they had many copper heads in VA...That would be scary. We found a tiny baby one in an insect trap a couple years ago. My thought was: baby means mom and dad live here somewhere. We do keep the grass really well mowed and where there is brush and weeds we do not go.
For those who have compost bins, I would add this note of caution from an experience today. I was shoveling some well-aged compost out of the bin and a small, foot-long, copperhead came out with a shovelful of compost. I am aware that we have copperheads in the area, but this is the first one I have ever seen on our property in the forty years that we have lived here. I was especially surprised because that particular compost was fairly compacted. As a precaution it might be best to avoid getting the hands or feet too close while working around a compost bin.
Took me awhile to find that! At first I thought it was a scene from The Blair Witch Project ... but scarier ...
the first time i saw that pic i couldn't find it, had to have someone point it out to me. now, even knowing approximately where to look, it's not easy..
I suspect that Copperheads are why the Hoe got invented....it also helps out weeding a garden. It is also something good to lean on when you get tired.
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Ran into a Copperhead near the garden
See attached picture. Did I get it right?
