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Title: Re: [RC] rattlesnakes

> In a message dated 9/26/2004 8:28:31 AM Pacific
> Standard Time, robertscaudle@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> > People are
> > not in their diet--too
> > big--so they don't really try to "go after" you
>  
> A few years ago I was riding with friends through an
> area of short dead grass. We suddenly heard a rattler and quickly
> turned our horses around to leave and I saw the rattlesnake become
> airborne as it came after one of the horses. It looked like a rope
> going through the air. It connected with the bottom of my friend's
> horse's hoof... no damage done. But it was one aggressive
> snake.
>
> Bonnie
> So. Calif.

I was leaving a ridecamp north of here a few months ago and saw a rattler reared up on its tail like a cobra, ready to take on the RV I was following!  It struck at the RV's back wheel  -- definitely more agressive than any snake I'd ever seen!

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Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/