Snakes in suburban areas.

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Just thought i would share an experience that happened about 2 hours ago.
We live on the outskirts of Cranbourne, with open paddocks approx 300m away, and also have 2 Rottweilers, mum 6yo and son 15mth.
Mum was barking quite frantically, different to her normal "alerting" bark. when she would not stop we out to see what was upsetting her, and were confronted by a very aggressive Copperhead approx 1m in length.

As we have neighbours on three sides with young children, and not wanting to put the dogs at risk overnight, we put an end to the snakes aggressive behaviour.

Before i get flamed, if it had happened during daylight then i would have quite happily let it be. Being dark, i was not prepared to take the risk of knowing it could have gone into a neighbours yard.

In our local paper today there was an article about a Jack Russell that was bitten and had to be put down.

So just a reminder that they are out there and to remain vigilant.