RM> > Yes, they told me about a family garden party they had one time where
  > > they had placed a baby buggy under a tree so the baby would be out
  > > of the direct sun, and when they went to get it later, there was
  > > a fairly large and VERY poisonous snake sleeping happily beside
  > > the baby..

MP>I wonder how they rectified that situation?  :O

As I recall, the father grabbed a stick and was going to try to flip
the snake out but as he and a few others got closer to the buggy
the snake got nervous and climbed out on its own.

We've discovered it's pretty hard to catch snakes unless you
really work at it. My father hated snakes and there was a fox
snake over 6 feet long that had taken up living under my place
and would climb up the steps and sun itself on my front deck.
It didn't bother me much, I'd just step over it on my way in
or out the front door, but dad decided we should catch it and
take it out to an island somewhere to get rid of it. We tried
to sweep it into a full sized garbage can to hold it but when
we got it about half way in, it just stretched out and climbed
over the top of the can and escaped, but it did move somewhere
else after that so I guess it accomplished the same thing..

MP>They are known for poisonous snakes and spiders.  We do have rattlers
  >in Kentucky, but the Copperheads are much more numerous, IIRC.
  >We also have watocs, a/k/a cottonmouths.

I didn't know watocs and cottonmouths were the same. I assumed one
lived on dry land and the other around the water..
Actually, it says online they are different but often mistaken for
each other because they look near identical. We have those here, or
some sorts of water snakes, too but they are nonvenomous..

I was just looking online and they say we don't have any Copperheads
in Ontario anymore, the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake being our
only venomous snake, but I know they used to be around. My father
in his youth worked forest fires up north and he said it used to
drive him up a wall (tree?) when the snakes would come crawling out
of the fire zone by the dozens, often right over their boots, and
there were definitely Copperheads back then he said.

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