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**Steve Hix**

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(Richard Casady) wrote:

It is easier to avoid a snake than shoot it.

I've lived in rattlesnake country almost all my life. Never a problem,
as long I take some care turning over rocks or logs in the spring, when
the hatchlings are first out. If I could just convince the local bull
snakes to move in on the gophers...

Lions do not have an extensive record for attacking people.

That has been changing in the past decade or so; several attacks,
including some fatalities, in California and Colorado in the past few
years.

Their numbers have been rising pretty well, and they really do seem to
be losing their fear of humans at the same time.

Bears do.