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09-08-2006, 12:55 AM
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It's a copperhead I tell you!
In light of John's screwy name game...here are some of the qualified copperhead call results I commonly get. I'll go ahead and give the answers since it's kinda a trick question/ID anyway.
1- Baby copperhead = dekayi
2- Baby copperhead found in gutter = baby black ratsnake
3- Honest to God for real copperhead = eastern gartersnake
4- I grew up on a farm and I KNOW what a copperhead is = midland watersnake (I can see the resemblance)
5- I'm pretty sure it's a copperhead = ringneck snake
6- I looked it up on line. It is for real a copperhead = cornsnake
7- Biggest copperhead I've ever seen! = adult black ratsnake
8- Absolutely positive it's a copperhead = eastern glass lizard
9- COPPERHEAD! (I really hate to admit but this was my mom) = eastern box turtle lol
10- Chattahoochee nature center verified it for me as a copperhead = Hold the press! It is indeed a copperhead! I'm batting nearly 1000 with copperhead calls screened through them.
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09-08-2006, 12:57 AM
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Your mom is going to shoot you lol
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09-08-2006, 12:58 AM
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09-08-2006, 01:33 AM
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The turtle had me laughing. That is really cute. She doesn't really need to come up with reasons to call you does she. Brett, call your mom.
We get a lot of copperhead scares around here too. So hard to tell rat snakes from coppers, those darn tricky buggers.
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09-08-2006, 02:46 AM
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what's funny is that they REALLY think they're right.....what you can do though is let the "copperhead" bite you and draw blood, then act like you're dying....freaks them out every time.......a fake convulsion works well too
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09-08-2006, 02:53 AM
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Originally Posted by fizzbob7
what's funny is that they REALLY think they're right.....what you can do though is let the "copperhead" bite you and draw blood, then act like you're dying....freaks them out every time.......a fake convulsion works well too
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HAHAHA.... omg, thats AWFUL
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09-08-2006, 03:23 AM
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COPPERHEAD! (I really hate to admit but this was my mom) = eastern box turtle lol
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 that is so darn fummy. whar did you say to her???
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09-08-2006, 02:21 PM
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ROFL, it would be hard for me to keep a strait face if I was to get one of those calls
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Originally Posted by fizzbob7
what's funny is that they REALLY think they're right.....what you can do though is let the "copperhead" bite you and draw blood, then act like you're dying....freaks them out every time.......a fake convulsion works well too
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OMG that's way too mean ...LOL
I want to try it!
The turtle thing had me tickled.  We get alot of cotton mouth scares around here; everyone thinks since it's a snake in the water it must be a water-mocasin......and then there's always the dreaded "copperheadedwaterrattler" he he
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09-08-2006, 02:47 PM
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In Mom's defense, the turtle was in tall grass under a fence and just it's head was sticking out. The rest of it was obscured. She saw movement and a small head, was in an area thick with legitimate copperheads and she's even more near sighted than I am.
Feigning invenomation for shock may seem fun and may even be actually good for a laugh but part of the idea in taking snake removal calls is to educate and hopefully ease some irrational fear. I always try to keep everything low key and highlight the good things about them personally. If you are getting snake calls sent to you through an agency of any kind and you pull some crap like that, you won't be getting any more calls. So please...there's a time and a place to be a jokester. That's generally not one of them unless it's your sister or someone that deserves it
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09-08-2006, 02:50 PM
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hey some common boas are very good at faking to be a cobra!!! 
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If you are getting snake calls sent to you through an agency of any kind and you pull some crap like that, you won't be getting any more calls. So please...there's a time and a place to be a jokester. That's generally not one of them unless it's your sister or someone that deserves it |
I agree totally, only joking around NOT up for playing jokes on the public like that. Sorry to get you upset.
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I had a kid bring me a small snake in a paper cup. He dumped the neonate snake from the cup to his hand to show it to me. I was expecting to see a neonate blackrat, watersnake or some type of small ground snake. Shocked the heck out of me to see the kid holding a neonate copperhead in the palm of his hand. Despite my command to "drop the snake", the kid carefully place the snake on the ground and as it tried to crawl away I was able to scoop it up in the cup.
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lol...those are funny! All kidding aside, I think it's good for people to assume that it's something dangerous and not get close than to get close and have it be a dangeous snake. Of course the ideal situation would be for the person to recognize and know the species.
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I agree totally, only joking around NOT up for playing jokes on the public like that. Sorry to get you upset.
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I wasn't upset..just showing what's on the other side of the coin.
Ack John! lol oops!
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Wow. I am so glad that when Buster found the dekayi that I didn't yell copperhead, even though it was dark out and I couldn't tell. I just said "Brett, snake!" and there you were and you saved me and my little pup from a big (like six inches), mean (he stuck his tongue out at me), nasty (I could just tell) SNAKE!!!!
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Wow. I am so glad that when Buster found the dekayi that I didn't yell copperhead, even though it was dark out and I couldn't tell. I just said "Brett, snake!" and there you were and you saved me and my little pup from a big (like six inches), mean (he stuck his tongue out at me), nasty (I could just tell) SNAKE!!!!
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that was great!!!!!
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i once got my sister in tears one day when she caught a garter snake got bit and i told her it was a pygmy rattler. the reason i told it was a pygmy was becuase i wanted her to let it go but she wouldn't. she has learn to identify common snake in my area
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i also caught a large watersnake while at scout camp and placed it in the nature lodge and marked it northern copperhead then i placed a dead copperhead next to the cage and everyone beleived it was a copperhead i used it to teach the difference between the two for the reptile and amphibian merit badge. funny thing with the dead copperhead it was killed three years prior my first time at that camp. it was killed becuase a kid brought it in holding it and the snake was wrapped around the kids hand. the camp is in greenville S.C.
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Bit off of snake calls, my husband, when he was around 5yrs old, brought his dad a bunch of baby copperheads. He killed one by mistake because he picked it up behind the head, poor little fragile guys!
Back on snake calls, my friend called a couple of weeks ago, "I have a snake on my porch!! OMG Courtney, its HUGE!! You gotta come and get it! I think its a mamba!!" LOL Automatically I knew it was most likely a Black Rat snake, and just sunning on some rocks on her porch. I had found a few baby black rats out there before, so I told her to calm down and just go back in, and I'd come out, but it would take me 45mins to get there, and by the time I got there, it would probably be gone, but I didnt mind coming out.
She assured me all was fine, and as long as it wasnt "poisonous" she wasnt worried about removing it.
Her b/f, the same idiot that "sold Ball Pythons at Wal Mart", and "had a friend who fed his 6ft python road killed deer" came over, and killed it. 
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