Copperhead anyone???

[Ravnos]

I checked the same book... unfortunately, state regs change do change quite often, but the book is a good guideline, at least to tell you which states DO have permits. Contacting your local Parks & Wildlife should always be the first step when buying a potentially dangerous animal.

Rav

[Ryche-1983]

Here's a pic of my copperhead. It's my first hot. I think he's great.






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[JuliusSqueezer]

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[Jack_Daniels]

I just want to say, Coppers were my first venomous snake... And although they are venomous, they arent really all that bad.. Dont get me wrong I dont want someone who's had a garter snake for 2 weeks, to get the wrong impression from what Im saying, ... its just, I hesitated like I 'see' alot of ya'll doing, when once I finally gave in, and got a copper, I realized its just another snake.. venomous, but still just another snake..

Someone said they have children, so they cant get one, but truthfully, if you cant manage to keep a child out of the snakes way, and vice versa, you shouldnt have something as harmless as a king snake...

I mean, if you are truly a snake keeper... have hands on, as well as "book read" knowledge.. can keep a snake without being dumb enough to have it escape... and have it for a legit purpose.. a copper is no big step up..

Really if you have kept a variety of snakes.. aggressive and "tame".. havnt had one get loose for a few years.. and run your place like a doctor runs his office.. talk with someone who's got hands on experience and see if he/she'll give you a few pointers in working a snake stick, and eventually go for keeping one of your own..

Know fear makes you hesitate... and hesitation will get you nailed everytime.. so if fear's an issue, I say stay with the kings, and the boas etc... but if your "fear" is actually Fascination.. just go for it.. I cant count the nights I sat up, asking myself... "should I get a copper"?? "naa maybe I shouldnt".... "but what if i did??" etc... Im greatful I did. Its one of those snakes you just sit and stare at it for an hour... while it sleeps.. I mean they're magnets...

Dont get me wrong, Im only talking about coppers, mainly because the venom is very mild, and they arent the quickest or most aggresive snake around... So its a good 'subject' to get accustomed to venomous animals.. but like I said, hesitation will get you dead.. so..

(by the way I just thought Id say... coppers dont like to hang on to snake hooks... so when I said find someone with some hands on knowledge so they can show you how to use a hook... its mainly saying, find out how to interact with a venomous snake... "hands on"..as well as "hands off"....)
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[longhorn698]

beautiful snake. he or she looks just amazing
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[Ophiophagus-hannah]

Copperheads have such nice color tones to them! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] They all look so beautiful!
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[angiebradbartley]

hey julius, when you get the chance e-mail me. i have a ? or two for u about copperheads. Have u ever seen or heard of an anery. copper? do you know of any good sights about copperheads? we got an adult female yesterday, possibly anery?? we are thinking about a male, but we are just starting out, we have a friend who has had a ton of them, who is helping us with her to show brad how to handle it. my e-mail is bartleysnake@hotmail.com TY [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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	Anerythristic A recessive genetic mutation in which the animal is void of red pigment.

[JuliusSqueezer]

You got mail. I'd like to see a pic of her if you can take one. I have never seen an anery but I have also never looked for one. I like orange [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] the redder the better. Northerns tend to have alot less red...more of a greyish overtone...could be mistaken for anery by someone used to looking at more reddish southern coppers? shrug...need to see a pic. The one above is a male southern x northern male. What he lacks in color, he makes up for with goofyness.
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	Anerythristic A recessive genetic mutation in which the animal is void of red pigment.

[bensnacks]

Julius you said "...go catch em people." [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
Can anyone in U.S. go catch wild native herps
, W/ no special licensing????

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[Bry]

Ben, yeah pretty much. The only species you cannot catch are the endangered and protected species. You can't catch Eastern Indigos around here because they're endangered. And, different species are protected due to dwindling populations or certain state laws protecting their native species. I don't think there is any problem w/ photographing or relocating animals (away from highways and public buildings) in the wild though.

Bry
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[JuliusSqueezer]

Also, there is a huge difference between Laws and Enforced Laws. Most of the Law Enforcment Agencies here are run by people that don't know a snake from a turtle and could care less what we catch and/or keep. However there are some out there watching and listening and sometimes they slap ya with a fine for catching things ya shouldn't be catching but usually they are out to stop mass poaching of certain species. There is a huge difference in someone wanting a cornsnake and going out flipping rocks to catch one and someone out bagging hundreds of them to sell to petstores. Noone here really cares much about what Joe Blow keeps as a pet as long as it doesn't eat the kids. We have some strange laws too that vary state to state. In Georgia, where I live, it is unlawful to keep any animal native to georgia regardless of the laws in the state where it was caught. You can keep cornsnakes in Tennessee but if you bring it to Georgia, you have to let it go. However some animals are now exempt from this law. We can keep any venomous snakes we want as long as they are native. Any exotic or non-local venomous snakes require a permit. We can keep "spring lizards" to use as fish bait. But this law is a flaw because "spring lizard" is a nickname that was originally meant for dusky salamanders but other salamanders and newts are commonly refered to by the same name. Eastern Newts for example are often sold in bait stores as "Spring Lizards"...Noone here has a clue...It's really funny to me that if the DNR ever comes crashing through my doors, they will confiscate my cornsnake and grey ratsnake but my copperhead is legal. I agree that mass poaching animals to sell puts a strain on the ecosystem and I would be the first to blow the whistle on someone doing that here. But catching a few for a private co