July 2023, I found a 4 1/2 foot Eastern copperhead coiled on my back patio last year when I was taking our 3 dogs out at night. The 1st dog went out, I saw the snake and stopped the other 2, but the 1st dog kept jumping over the snake as she tried to figure out why the other 2 dogs were shut inside. The snake didn't try to bite her. I had a broom, and a dog poo pick up rake, and was eventually able to pick up the copperhead and take it way back into the woods to let it go. That snake was stunningly beautiful and large, it's colors and pattern were very bright. September 21, 2024, my wife comes to tell me the dogs found a snake in the backyard and takes me out to show me. Turns out, it's not 1 snake, it's 3 Eastern copperheads, 1 of them is huge and I'm sure it's the one from 14 months earlier. They are semi coiled together. None made any attempt to flee or threaten. The other 2 copperheads are about 30 inches long, and they are stuck together by a thin nylon band that they must have crawled through. The band was stuck about 1/4 of the way down 1 snake and 1/2 of the way down the other, the one 1/4 way stuck had its mouth open, not in a threatening way, but more like it was gasping to breathe. I could see the nylon band had sliced through the skin of 1/4 stuck snake a little and it had a wound, not too bad, but it was only going to get worse. I got a pair of scissors, the dog poo rake and was able to cut the string and free the 2 snakes. Immediately, the 3 snakes split up and began to crawl away in different directions. We were able to pillowcase and relocate 2 of them, the 3rd used its camouflage, and we couldn't find it. I have no knowledge of snake behavior, but I couldn't help to wonder if the huge copperhead was protecting the other 2, maybe the 2 smaller ones were offspring, but it was fascinating behavior. It's obvious that the big snake has been around our yard for a very long time, probably all 3, yet it never bit our dogs or us.
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Wow!! Cool story!thank you for not killing them!
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July 2023, I found a 4 1/2 foot Eastern copperhead coiled on my back patio last year when I was taking our 3 dogs out at night.
The 1st dog went out, I saw the snake and stopped the other 2, but the 1st dog kept jumping over the snake as she tried to figure out why the other 2 dogs were shut inside. The snake didn't try to bite her.
I had a broom, and a dog poo pick up rake, and was eventually able to pick up the copperhead and take it way back into the woods to let it go.
That snake was stunningly beautiful and large, it's colors and pattern were very bright.
September 21, 2024, my wife comes to tell me the dogs found a snake in the backyard and takes me out to show me.
Turns out, it's not 1 snake, it's 3 Eastern copperheads, 1 of them is huge and I'm sure it's the one from 14 months earlier. They are semi coiled together. None made any attempt to flee or threaten.
The other 2 copperheads are about 30 inches long, and they are stuck together by a thin nylon band that they must have crawled through.
The band was stuck about 1/4 of the way down 1 snake and 1/2 of the way down the other, the one 1/4 way stuck had its mouth open, not in a threatening way, but more like it was gasping to breathe.
I could see the nylon band had sliced through the skin of 1/4 stuck snake a little and it had a wound, not too bad, but it was only going to get worse. I got a pair of scissors, the dog poo rake and was able to cut the string and free the 2 snakes.
Immediately, the 3 snakes split up and began to crawl away in different directions. We were able to pillowcase and relocate 2 of them, the 3rd used its camouflage, and we couldn't find it.
I have no knowledge of snake behavior, but I couldn't help to wonder if the huge copperhead was protecting the other 2, maybe the 2 smaller ones were offspring, but it was fascinating behavior.
It's obvious that the big snake has been around our yard for a very long time, probably all 3, yet it never bit our dogs or us.