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Thank you all for your responses/opinions
Just to give you all a heads up, I have saved countless amounts of copperheads and other venemous snakes in my area. The copperhead was my Kingsnake's first and only ophidian meal that it ever had (No I don't do this regularly at all!). The copperhead IS probably THE most common snake here where I live. I usually see at least one almost every day, and everytime I stop and gently coax them off the road (along with other species as well).
All of my pet snakes are captive born or bought from the internet; By the way, my large brooksi was bought as a WC animal.

Sorry if anyone's feelings got hurt, but think about all the snakes that didn't get eaten around Lake Okeechobee since this 5.5 foot Brooksi was caught there. And the countless amounts of snakes that I rescued from our highways for over thirty years. . . And all the extra food available for the surviving (younger) copperheads where I removed this ONE from the wild (in front of some speeding cars). I can go on and on about this one but, 'NUFF' said!!! My Florida Kingsnake is doing fine and about to reduce the rat population some more. . . .

PEACE OUT -

ZEE

Nice reply! Some of us DO appreciate the countless snakes you have saved over the years! Keep up the good work!!

I certainly appreciate the spirit of your post but one thing....Brooks are not found around Lake Okeechobee. Some very high yellow intergrades are found there. A w/c "Brooks" or pure (floidana) South Florida King would have to come from extreme Southern Dade or Monroe Counties.

Frank
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Appreciate this post,I've seen so many posts on different forums where wild caught snakes are kept for food and I've never said anything, did this time. I wish I lived in area like you. Here snakes are becoming so few and far between its not funny. Their habitat is being plowed up, cut down and paved over in the name of progress. Very disheartening, its nice to hear about a place were snakes are still common.

Zee,
That, or a similar scenario, is what I assumed from the start. Everyone else, for some reason, assumed you were a serial snake slayer. lol I reiterate my jealousy that you live in an area where copperheads are that common.
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Thanks for the response. I can assure you that you did not hurt my feelings with your post.

To me, feeding a wild caught snake to a captive that is feeding readily on mice is ... pointless.

That said, I am glad you have a healthy copper head population in your area. I am jealous.

Tom

same as a mouse/rat/rabbit lover watching a snake eating them...or feeding lizards to snakes...there all living animals.its all what you choose to feed.one big food chain.price you pay for keeping snakes...

i sold about 50 baby normal and albino corns to a guy who never told me he was using them to feed baby cobras,but that was his choice to do so.i never b!tched->RiDe On

Theres nothing you can do about snakes once you sell them. The good news is he was not depleating the native population of snakes to feed a non-native caged animal.

You defend your assertions with logic & reason, and specific examples.

Shine on!
Peace!!!

Thanks for the responses - and seriously I have never lived in an area that has so many copperheads. There are also a lot of cornsnakes here (found three in 30 minutes' worth of road cruising one day last week - one is a YELLOW one). But Kingsnakes seem to be quite rare here. Found only two adults and a yearling so far in the past two years. If any of you ever come to NC look me up and I can show you some good areas to cruise . . .

Zee