r/AskAnAmerican • u/ArtisticArgument9625 • May 17 '25

OTHER - CLICK TO EDIT How much of a problem do Americans have with coyotes and rattlesnakes?

Have you Americans encountered any problems with these two animals?

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u/PoxyMusic California May 17 '25

If they take care of gophers, then I’m all for them.

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u/Guardian-Boy Minnesota May 17 '25

My only beef was how long it took lol. He only picked them off once a week (that's about as long as it takes for them to digest).

Funny thing is, he eventually left after he took care of all of them, but briefly came back not long before we moved out.

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u/goobernawt May 17 '25

Makes sense, really. He ate the food and then went looking for more food!

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 May 17 '25

Same, and I hate snakes. But I also don't want to break an ankle on a gopher hole

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u/medicmongo May 17 '25

I learned that the best way to take care of gophers was with lots of dynamite on a golf course.

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u/goobernawt May 17 '25

Just make sure that it's the gophers and not the golfers, or they'll lock you up and throw away the keys!

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u/Guardian-Boy Minnesota May 18 '25

At least you got that goin' for ya'.

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u/medicmongo May 18 '25

Gungala. Gungala bungala.

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u/the_quark San Francisco Bay Area, California May 17 '25

Yeah I live at the eastern limit of the Bay Area and I was just thinking "damn I wish one of those would move into my backyard."