The guy noted me himself; he did remove it voluntarily. He claims that it was a Cottonmouth, and that it was going to "attack" his little brother. I've been around snakes all my life, including venomous ones, and that includes MANY Cottonmouths, which I've found to be very lazy, passive snakes, in spite of their potential deadliness. I've NEVER had one to try to "attack" me; they either lie there like lumps, or they move out of your way. They will let you know if you're too close with that open-mouthed warning display and will often tolerate a tremendous amount of aggravation before actually striking. While I don't have an issue with killing an animal(or a human, for that matter)in self-defense, when it's really a matter or "ME, or IT", I would NOT consider posting the pic on the internet and bragging about it! I had to shoot a dog once, a beautiful black German Shepherd, that just showed up out of nowhere and came after my grandfather as he was outside feeding his own animals. I hated having to do that so bad that I had nightmares about for weeks. The health dept. took the dog to test its brain for rabies, since its behavior was obviously abnormal, and found instead that the dog had been forcefed gunpowder, which had eaten away at its brain just like "Mad Cow Disease" affects the brains of its victims. This is commonly done by people in the South to make a dog vicious, since it makes them insane, literally, and is done most often by people who fight dogs or want a dog to "guard" a drug stash. This is one of the reasons why the "pit bulls" that "go crazy" and attack someone are so bad; they've been given gunpowder and/or methamphetimine, another favorite of dog-fighters. Still, I cannot fathom photographing that poor dog, lying there in its own blood, and considering that to be "art", just because it nearly had killed my grandfather! I'm sure that most people would NOT have wanted to see that, and I don't consider myself brave or tough because I did what I had to do.
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04-26-2007, 04:11 PM
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