Starting a Venomous snake collection.

[SW-morelia]

Originally Posted by wildlifewarrior

your so funny

nah nothing come yet....but you better not have addressed it to what you said or i will be getting my head kicked in by my neighbours if they see it

Da da Dahhhhhhhh..... What will it say this time.....
Don't worry, I wouldn't do that... Would I?

[ViperLover]

Originally Posted by SW-morelia

Da da Dahhhhhhhh..... What will it say this time.....
Don't worry, I wouldn't do that... Would I?

I went to try and go and have a look at some snakes today....but certain were too cocksure of theirselves in the exact place, and got it wrong. By the time we had got there, my grandad never had the time to go to the correct place with me...so I couldnt go.

Now I have to wait another week. FML

[wildlifewarrior]

Originally Posted by ViperLover

I went to try and go and have a look at some snakes today....but certain were too cocksure of theirselves in the exact place, and got it wrong. By the time we had got there, my grandad never had the time to go to the correct place with me...so I couldnt go.

Now I have to wait another week. FML

you been letting men in white vans show you there snakes again?

[ViperLover]

Originally Posted by wildlifewarrior

you been letting men in white vans show you there snakes again?

LOL...No

[southwest vipers]

Viperlover, I have been reading through the comments that you have put on the forum and the replies and insults that you have received. I must say that you have handled the critisism very well. Your enthusiasm should be applauded rather than ridiculed. It is refreshing to see new and young people joining in the hobby and taking an early interest in the more advanced side of reptile keeping. If you feel you would like to learn more from an advanced dwa keeper, I suggest you contact Greenvenom who posts on here occasionally. He has a large dwa collection which I am sure he would be happy to show you and answer any questions etc.

[Malc]

Originally Posted by southwest vipers

I suggest you contact Greenvenom who posts on here occasionally. He has a large dwa collection which I am sure he would be happy to show you and answer any questions etc.

With all due respect may I suggest you point Greenvenom to this thread (if he's not already seen it) so he can see at first hand the responses to James' posts. One respected keeper has basically said he would refuse James entry to the park, let alone the reptile house due to James' approach. However maybe if James did experienced the adrenaline rush of being close up to a snake that could kill him it might make him realize why we've all recommend he keeps a cornsnake

[wildlifewarrior]

Originally Posted by southwest vipers

I suggest you contact Greenvenom who posts on here occasionally. He has a large dwa collection which I am sure he would be happy to show you and answer any questions etc.

Originally Posted by greenvenom

Viperlover, dont you think it would be a good idear if you spent some time on the non venomous snake section, there you will get all the info you will need on how to start up your own snake collection and you will learn how to keep corns, kings, boids etc.
We all had to start somewhere.

[Chris_Law]

Originally Posted by HABU

well hey neighbor!!

you're just up the road there from me!

yeah, shawnee sucked thiss year for snakes... it stayed cool and rainy here from spring up until mid summer... it was nice towards the end of summer though...

on the flat-land it seemed nice but up in the hollows and creeks it always stays cooler because you know it takes a while for the sun to come up over the ridges and then it sets quickly... and if it's cool and that cold rain comes down, those hollows never get a real chance to warm and dry out...

it was great for the skinks and amphibians... they had a good year... but the snakes mostly hunkered down... i don't think they bred well this past season... not in the forest at least... outside the hills, in the fields and low, open areas they might have done better...

this year will be good... if it gets hot early... a nice, wet spring and a drier summer... then those hollows will warm.... those creeks you know flowed all this season... and that water is like refridgeration in the hollows... that with less sun making it into the hollows are rough on the snake activity...

... you should hook up with me this year if you like and we can do some herping!!

just p.m, e-mail or instant message me anytime......

do us some fishing too!

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bad year for snakes but the tadpoles had a good one in shawnee!!

Absolutely! I agree, as well. I did find a bunch of fence lizards, skinks, milksnakes, etc. Not much else down there, though. We should definitely meet up this coming season and see what we can stir up. Fishing sounds great, too!

Chris

Btw, my email is Chris_Law@herpfanatic.com

[ViperLover]

Originally Posted by Chris_Law

Absolutely! I agree, as well. I did find a bunch of fence lizards, skinks, milksnakes, etc. Not much else down there, though. We should definitely meet up this coming season and see what we can stir up. Fishing sounds great, too!

Chris

Btw, my email is Chris_Law@herpfanatic.com

Milksnakes sound nice.
Expencive?

[Chris_Law]

Originally Posted by HABU

let me qualify that... they are on the state endangered species list... but,...

this is the ddge of their range so it's their frontier... they stop where the glaciation line is... they only live in the unglaciated areas right here in ohio mostly... for some reason.

so they are endangered because that is really the only way to afford them any sort of protection... and even that doesn't mean anything to the locals... they kill them on sight anyway... most probably don't even know that it is illegal to molest them and certainly to kill them...

portsmouth is a hick town to the extreme... they make deliverence look like a documentary... nothing but meth-heads, pill-snorters and in-bred idiots here...

anyway... they are doing good research here on the rattlesnakes... i was told that this one place i camp was where they had recently release some 500 timbers back into the wild...

damned coyotes... they are a big problem... eating everything... prey animals as well as the predators...

i'll be packing heat when i camp next spring just in case i see one close.. saw a few last year... but their prints and scat were everywhere... they run the ridges mostly... i'll shoot them on sight...

LOL! Yeah, I wasn't overly fond of the entire Portsmouth area, but it was the ONLY place that I know that I can find Timbers. They have supposed sitings further north, and I never had any luck. Yes, coyotes are getting out of control, completely. I had one running right through a job-site in the middle of the ghetto portion of Columbus. Almost as if it didn't have a care in the world!

Chris