From: Ron Turner
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, Snakes
Most years we kill two or three copperheads on our property, this year its been six or seven. Only have killed one rattlesnake (a Western Diamondback) . Without a doubt cooperhead bites in Texas are the most common venomous snake bite - typically over 900 in a year and only rarely does a person die from copperhead bites. Even the very young (4-5 years old) children survive the bite although it is quite painful for a long time.
Regards, Ron
From: Ron Banks
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, Snakes
Might want to import you some black snakes, they view copperheads as a great meal. They will also keep the mouse and rat population down.
From: Frank Rogers
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, Snakes
You'd be arrested for that in CA. Snakes must be captured and moved, even if they are inside your home. Many are found in ritzy gated communities, such as the one where I worked and Philip Rivers lives. Our pastor was bitten and hospitalized trying to catch a baby rattler in his yard. Animal control came and caught the snake.
Frank
From: Ken Kalish
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
Poisonous snakes? I ran over a three-inch baby garter snake yesterday. Second one I have seen up here in 20 years. There are good reasons some of us choose to live in the land of ice and snow, the land where howling blizzards keep the snake population to an absolute minimum. Snow snakes keep the mosquito population down in the winter, too.
Ken
From: Mike Jackson
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
We have a lot of copperheads all over our neighborhood. I've killed 5 on my property this year alone.
MikeJ
From: Frank Rogers
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1 And with the loss of farmlands and growth of pine woods, millions of poisonous snakes all over Georgia ! Not to mention car-killing deer !
Frank
From: Ken Kalish
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
Dickie:
You make the time to drop by and I’ll set up calling in the critters. No license required, but summer requires that you protect yourself from Minnesota’s state bird, the mosquito. I have some ideal blinds.
Ken
From: Dick Ellis
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1 [In response to Forrest Brandt's message, above.]
I am heart-broken you are not coming to San Diego!!! Lt...It ain't going to be the same without your input. You know you can get a hitchhike on a C-130 or something to the west coast!!! I am excited to see everyone...especially Mike Hollaran... We drove from Saigon to Cou-Chi once..damn lucky we didn't find a sniper!! Mike swore it was an ARVN who shot himself in the foot as we went by. We went out with the 25th ID and that whole crowd was crazy. I have a photo Mike took of me making friends with an Ambulance driver and reminding him which hooch we were staying in!! Look forward to seeing everyone soon...
Dickie
From: Dick Ellis
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
Ken... Hope you are doing well.... I am getting all keyed up for San Diego... I would love to shoot some coyotes.... I saw a video of a sound caller that makes the sound of a rabbit in distress and it sucks them right in. I saw one run over last year on our belt-line around the city. I slowed down and said .."Damn, what a beautiful German Shepherd someone has lost." Then I realized it was a coyote. I have shot three fox in my yard this year. Raleigh allows one to have a chicken coop within the city limits...if you have less than 12 and no Rooster!!! Ha! There are three in my neighborhood and it draws the foxes like a magnet. There have been a bunch of rabid ones around the area also. I have always had a fear of facing one in my driveway one morning about 5:30 and having to kick his brains out until I can get to my pistol in the car. I have a Russian Mosin Nagant that a friend customized for me with a new bolt, sport stock, and scope. Would love to see what that baby could do out in Montana or somewhere cool!!! See you soon...
Dickie
From: Jordon St. John
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
I don't know...they all taste like chicken to me.
From: Forrest "Currmudgeon" Brandt
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
I think I prefer coyotes and alligators to toy poodles and other small yappy dogs.
From: Ken Kalish
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
[This "conversation" started with a comment in the Daily Appeal by Dick Ellis]
Ah, coyotes.
Yes, “they’re everywhere, they’re everywhere!” And they are smart. They know I don’t have yard llamas out at night, and they come right up to the garage to tempt our dogs. They try to get into the llama pens about once every three weeks or so. The llamas charge them with so much energy that some of my 4x4, eight foot long treated wood fence posts get broken off at ground level.
The coyotes even eat their own wounded. One of the equipment dealers with whom I deal regularly has two beautiful chocolate labs. The crew lets the dogs out regularly so they can pee and poop. A pack of coyotes was waiting last year when the staff let the dogs out during the lunch hour. They immediately attacked one of the labs, tearing her pelt from the bottom of her right side rib cage to her ear. One of the staff scooted inside and got a shotgun used for security, then ran back out to take on the coyotes. All eight of the coyotes looked up and saw the shotgun, ran for the shelter of some nearby brush. The lab was still alive, and a vet was able to clean her wounds and sew her pelt back on. She recovered, but the dogs never go out alone for potty breaks, and the dealership has installed a hatch on and a rifle inside of a steel power pole next to the building.
I’m considering buying a night scope and a coyote lure system and just sitting out in the fields a few nights. Too bad there is no longer a bounty on the coyotes.
Ken
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October 2014
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From: Frank Rogers
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: And Now More on Coyotes
And I'm sure all the expenses to fix up the coyote and return it "to the wild" were met by many responses to the appeal for donations. Were you among them?
From: John Kafka
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: And Now More on Coyotes
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/01/coyote-found-lodged-in-mans-car-bumper/20970784/?ncid=webmail
From: Dick Ellis
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
I just shot an 18- inch copperhead in my back garden about an hour ago ...the yard man was cutting some high grass and chased him out...1 st one this year....
Dickie
From: Mike Jackson
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: The Daily Appeal, Wednesday, October 1
Hell Ken, come on down to Atlanta. The damned things are all over the place.
MikeJ
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From: John Kafka
Date: October 2, 2014
Subject: And Now More on Coyotes
Not me. I see what I think are coyote's when out on patrol, but heck, they could be fox or a dog for all I know. Too busy raising kids to get involved with raising funds to save or protect coyote's. I would never intentionally hurt one, but not going out to support them.
hang tuff,