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I guess I am thinking of cold as -5 F with snow and the ground frozen a foot down. The snakes would be frozen solid unless they go deep.
Different places have different definitions for cold. I call really cold -10 F and lower.
I can not imagine losing my dog...I am very attached to my dogs.
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Yes you have very different cold to here. We get high wind and high humidity cold that catches visitors out all the time because the numbers don't look bad. I have a friend from Poland who still can't believe how cold it is when he is used to -20C and wearing a t-shirt.
The tiger snakes get caught when it is a random summer snow storm that only lasts a day. You never ever go anywhere in Tasmania without a jacket just in case no matter what time of year.
At the other extreme, Tasmania is the place where I recorded the hottest temperature ever on a bridge painting job - 63C inside the dust containment tent. It beat an outback Australia job by 1 degree. This was about 20 km from the cold tiger snakes place a couple of years later. Cheers
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Wow! Tough to lose a family member, especially like that. Perhaps a puppy will console your granddaughters.
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I am sorry for your loss. My father is a herpatologist, so I grew up around reptiles and snakes (though after I was born, my mother made him get rid of the poisonous ones). He lost the tip of his thumb due to a copperhead bite (helping the snake shed his skin). He was the one you wanted when we ran across a rattlesnake when hiking.
Around here, we lose a lot of dogs due to snake bite (primarily coastal rattlesnakes). There are training and aversion courses to train dogs to avoid the snakes. Perhaps they have them around your area as well.
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Shawn, I had not heard of snake aversion training for dogs. I'll be looking for that.
Al, a puppy is going to happen. We have to wait to breed our other one as a Samoyed puppy sets you back Au$2200! Also we need 2 as we got used to 2 dogs. Cheers
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Wayne, I am a believer that 2 are easier to take care of than 1 dog. They actually entertain each other IMO.
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