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Comment by Ron Cooper on February 8, 2012 at 13:17

robert! i have to thank you. i had never heard of a "feist squirrel dog" until i looked at your profile and noticed that you raise 'em as a hobby. so, naturally, being the curious type, i googled them. wow! they certainly are cool looking little dogs. i even discovered forums dedicated to the breed where folks can get together and share stories and pictures of their dogs, just like we do with our knives. i guess that's just one more thing that a city slicker like myself missed out on.

i'm sure, being from alabama, you've heard the old groucho marx line from the movie, "Animal Crackers"...While shooting elephants in Africa, I found the tusks very difficult to remove. But in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa...

have a great day, my friend, and thanks for teaching this old dog a new trick!

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on February 8, 2012 at 7:37

Thanks Ron, problem with these snakes is they kill our dogs.

Comment by Ron Cooper on February 8, 2012 at 1:01

i'm all about lovin' and respectin' critters. but i share no love for mr. no-shoulders! 'specially the poisonous ones. i liked this pic because now there's one less snake in the grass for me to worry about jumpin' up and bittin' me in the butt. thank you, robert!

oh, yeah! nice knife, too!

Comment by Halicon on February 27, 2011 at 10:23

Let's just be happy it never managed to plunge it's fangs in 'ya lol.

 

I agree to 100% with your statement, I just wondered if "is this a guy that actually knifed a rattlesnake??!!". Good call on grabbing a long stick for it, you are a sound hunter respecting natures threats, after all the hunter should stay the hunter and not be the hunted (insert video of random photographer moron being bitten trying to get a picture) :)

Comment by Jay Todd on February 15, 2011 at 15:11

to bad you killed it = beautiful reptile =

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on February 15, 2011 at 10:24

No, James, kinda rare. We have alot of  other type snakes though.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on February 7, 2011 at 8:29

No, I killed the snake with a 8 foot stick I found in the woods. My wife wanted to tan the skin so before I skinned it I took that picture. A knife has alot of uses but killing a 5 foot rattle snake is not one. I killed another one a week after that. It was even bigger. I shot it with my shot gun, there not much left to take a picture of.

Comment by Halicon on February 6, 2011 at 13:00

Pretty happy I only have to worry about their x50 times less potent cousin that lives in Sweden.

 

What I would like to know is how on earth you managed to knife that thing. Sure for a gunshot but going mano el mano with a rattlesnake and a knife should rank pretty high on the crazy scale.

 

You just stomped into it's nest by the way, notice the white egg remains? That's a female in her den, I've heard they get pretty pissed when you do that.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on February 6, 2011 at 11:00

James, I wasn't really hunting that snake. It almost bit me, so after that I made it a good snake.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on February 5, 2011 at 18:45

If they tastes like chicken I'll never know. Us, Cajuns eat almost anything, but that's where I draw the line!