Don Freeman wrote:

Doing a search on "aggressive" and "cottonmouth" I find a lot of disparity
in opinions on wither the cottonmouth is actually aggressive or not.
Looking closer at the sources I find that the more reliable ones (as opposed
to joe blows blog site) tend to support the position that its aggressive
nature is not deserved.

Man that sounds like the shark huggers (naturalist) who claim bull
sharks are not aggressive, they mistake humans for fish.

A couple of naturalist were proving that very fact a couple of years
ago, in knee deep water, with bull sharks all around them, and guess
what? one of them got nailed! on camera, yet they still claimed they are
not aggressive

California banned cougar hunting a few years back, and now people are
dying, while they are jogging in their neighborhoods

There are no "naturalist" that will claim any animal is aggressive
towards man, it's politically incorrect, and would cost them their jobs.

My feelings on the matter is from personal experience, not based on what
I have read somewhere, and I would bet Joe Blow's Blog site is based on
the same thing, his personal experiences

Regardless, the number of biting incidences is
incredibly low


Yep they are low,, because people like me keep them from places where
people are. That's why they are not protected by law, at least not here

and the number of deaths from those bites minimal.


Have you ever seen someone that survived a snake bite ? Go on the net
and take a look at the damage caused, how would you like your child to
go through that, because you thought that cotton mouth you saw the week
before, was no threat

Hardly
justifies killing every one you come across, especially if it poses no
threat to you.

I never said I kill everyone I see,, hardly, in some of the places I
fish I will see a dozen of them a day, hanging on limbs over the water,
these are some out of the way places, where few people go, and those who
do, know they are there, they also don't run their boats under tree
limbs :-)

Cotton mouths normally don't hang around clear banks, or open water,
they like it back in the feeder creaks, swamps, and the over grown
banks, where they can drop on their pray from limbs (few people get on
these banks, and fewer still swim in those areas) this is where the
cotton mouth has a place in nature, not on your swimming beach, under
your pier, or in your back yard



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