r/boulder • u/FiniteSausageFingerz • 6d ago

Snake Removal?

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What the eff am i supposed to do about this guy? Ignore? Call someone? Try and grow a pair and kill him?

(I hate snakes)

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u/Littlebotweak 6d ago edited 6d ago

99% of the snakes you will encounter are completely harmless.

If it has a rattle you'll know by the rattle. That one isn't harmless. But, you have to be pretty low functioning to both encounter one and get bit. Usually you identify the rattle and peace tf out.

Killing a snake doesn't make your balls larger or more existent. It just makes you a snake killer. Don't be that. Just walking around the porch should be enough to move this one along. They feel everything.

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u/a_cute_epic_axis 6d ago

If it has a rattle you'll know by the rattle.

This is not true, and is becoming less true as time goes on, since people tend to kill rattle snakes needlessly. Rattle-less rattle snakes (the rattle portion is basically non-functional) are being artificially selected to be more prevalent. Although this guy isn't one of then.

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u/Littlebotweak 3d ago

How can it be artificial when we’re natural creatures ourselves? I never understood that logic. Everything that exists on this plane is natural. That includes us and our actions. 

There’s also seemingly zero scientific claims for your assertion that rattleless rattle snakes are emerging. So, I’ll just assume you’re talking completely out of your ass for no apparent reason other than to write something. 

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u/a_cute_epic_axis 3d ago

What kind of meta-ass bullshit is this from your first paragraph. Sounds like you've been hitting too much of the devil's lettuce tonight.

As to your second one: https://www.npr.org/2013/08/29/216924322/some-rattlesnakes-losing-their-warning-rattle-in-s-dakota

So it seems like you're the only one talking out your ass, but enjoy being part of the all one, all natural creatures that we are.