My dog may have saved my life while herping

[d_virginiana]

My dog Bear has always been my favorite herping partner. She always finds the snakes/frogs/whatever but never actually chases or attacks them. In fact, she's so helpful that I've pretty much given up herping when I can't take her with me (I find no snakes, so it just ends up being hiking).
Well, on a recent trip we were on one of our favorite paths down near the creek when she started acting funny and circling a wide area along our general path and trying to discourage me from walking there as well.
Turns out that what she was trying to avoid was a nest of newly hatched baby copperheads. Normally I wouldn't say that this was a lifesaving thing, as most of the time the copperheads would just run when we got to close, but the babies were very newly hatched and there were about seven of them in the same area basking, and very well camouflaged; in other words, it would not have been a good idea to walk over them!

Silly little story, but I felt like sharing it

[Chondro788]

Very cool story, and a good dog!! I bet the little copperheads were cute as ever!!!

[guidofatherof5]

Dogs Rule.
Thanks for posting your story.

[Enneirda.]

Great dog. I got a reptile finder too, though she's not as good a Bear yet.

[ConcinusMan]

oh man, no pics? I would love to see that.

[d_virginiana]

Yeah, Bear's a good dog She found me a much larger copperhead yesterday, but it was under a nice safe rock. We have so many this year, it's crazy. It's no wonder we're the number one state in the country for bites!

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I've found at least 75 coppers this year. This is a special year for a certain cicada that only emerges like every 13 years and it is one of there favorite snacks.

[Sonya610]

I've found at least 75 coppers this year. This is a special year for a certain cicada that only emerges like every 13 years and it is one of there favorite snacks.

Wow...good to know! We just had the little 13 year cicada's here, incredibly noisy little guys; sadly they are pretty much gone now.

Must be a real feast for the animals that like to snack on them, when they started departing for the afterlife there were dead cicada's everywhere! Sheesh even ending up in the isles inside the grocery store.

One in my backyard:

[guidofatherof5]

Copperheads are a beautiful snake.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Yes they are. Have you seen the spotted morph?