So my daughter takes the dog for a walk again today, just in the neighborhood little league field behind our house, and guess what... TWO MORE SNAKES! Just garden snakes this time, but geesh! Living in this state for 12 years I'd bet I've only seen a dozen snakes total (aside from what we've seen the last week!). Trying to figure out what may have changed! The trails and places we've been going are all the same.
VERY COOL PICTURE OF THE COPPERHEAD! Till you said it was photoshop I was thinking, how the HECK did he not walk right onto that thing!?!
I think the rattler was asleep in the sun until the dog stepped on it. Then it rattled, the dog jumped back, and it made a "threaten strike". I call it that because I think if it had really wanted to bite the dog it could have.