Brenda Steele just wanted to protect her garden and keep her dogs in her yard when she bought a roll of plastic mesh from a home improvement store. “I told the guy at Lowe’s that I wanted something to put over my garden to keep the rabbits, birds and deer out,” she said. But within days of installing the stuff, Steele and her husband, Jim; and son, Brendan, realized she’d discovered a snake killer, a discovery that many might want to know about, because area physicians have said copperhead attacks seem to be more numerous in 2013.
The first two snakes showed up about three weeks ago — a pair of copperheads, thoroughly dead, twisted in the netting she put under her backyard fence. A third copperhead showed up four days later in the same spot, virtually on top of the others. It had decapitated itself.
“The head was still biting, so I smashed it with a rock,” Steele said. Read more….