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Location: Never in one place long | The guy who snapped these photos said the rattler was still rattling all the way down!!!
I guess you'd now call the black snake a 'black-rattler.'
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Location: Oklahoma | WOW! |
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Location: Never in one place long | Longneck - 2014-05-30 8:21 AM
WOW!
Theres more pictures of it from start to end but it won't upload them!!! :( |
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Location: Oklahoma | I gotta say... I think I've seen enough to say that black snake is bad-a w/out more pics! lol
Snakes freak me out..and one that can eat another one is even more freaky! |
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Location: Kansas | I watched a snake documentary on the National Geographics channel the other day and saw many instances of snakes eating other snakes. Pythons eat anything that will fit under their skin. Gruesome.
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Location: Kansas | Black snakes I don't mind a bit....if they stay on their side of the road...and I'm on mine. Some girl on facebook took a video of a snake that was sunbathing on the road she was driving on....she stopped, dumped water all over him, and when he got mad.....she ran over him with her car.
Sorry but you're not cool for doing that! |
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | I think thats a king snake, and they LOVE to eat poisonous snakes. |
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Location: Arizona | Looks like a King snake to me. They are awesome and eat rattlers all the time. I'm the crazy lady who will stop my car, get out, and move a non-venomous snake OUT of the road because I know 99.9% of people will run it over on purpose just because it's a snake. I love having bull or king snakes on my property because snakes are territorial and will keep the rattlers at bay. Although I did relocate a 6 foot Bull snake recently because he was continuing to hide out in my tool shed and I was afraid he might bite one of my kiddos, and at 6 feet long it would have hurt! Cool pic! |
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Location: Texas | I thought it was an indigo??
ETA- yep, I call Indigo snake. they are immune to rattlesnake venom!
Edited by casualdust07 2014-05-30 9:45 AM
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Location: Texas | Don't kill a green speckled king snake either. We watched one eat a copperhead in our back yard! |
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| AWESOME!!!! Give me 100 of those black ones. Hey, I just thought of a new business. We have fly predators , someone needs to grow these black snakes and we can order them by the dozen. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | so i take it the black one is not poisonious.?
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Location: Texas | mruggles - 2014-05-30 9:57 AM
so i take it the black one is not poisonious.?
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No, it's a nonvenemous Texas Indigo Snake. I found the same exact picture online that says its a Texas Indigo. They are the longest snakes in the US though! |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I think that it's a cool picture. But no offense if I see a big a** snake eating another snake, I'm not exactly sticking around to see what kind it is. Much less take a picture of it. No way!!! LOL!!  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mruggles - 2014-05-30 9:57 AM so i take it the black one is not poisonious.?
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ha ha ha ha, I can see you asking this question looking just like your Avatar picture. Just had to say this cause I know that you really dont like snakes.  |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-31 9:04 AM mruggles - 2014-05-30 9:57 AM so i take it the black one is not poisonious.?
m ha ha ha ha, I can see you asking this question looking just like your Avatar picture. Just had to say this cause I know that you really dont like snakes.
lol......and no im not a huge fan of snakes......
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | casualdust07 - 2014-05-30 9:36 AM I thought it was an indigo?? ETA- yep, I call Indigo snake. they are immune to rattlesnake venom!
That is a Blue Indigo, we have them all over the place.  |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day.... |
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Location: Texas | Southtxponygirl - 2014-05-30 10:12 AM
casualdust07 - 2014-05-30 9:36 AM I thought it was an indigo?? ETA- yep, I call Indigo snake. they are immune to rattlesnake venom!
That is a Blue Indigo, we have them all over the place.
Whoop! I knew it was an indigo! When I went to school in Kingsville you could see them go across the highways every once in a while. big freaking snakes! |
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Location: North Dakota | Those are so pretty in person! I don't have a problem with snakes at all. We mostly just have Garter snakes around here and I love seeing them. I usually come across a few when riding out in my pasture. My cats enjoy "playing" with them as well. I have one cat that has a set of holes that he checks daily. He will go from hole to hole checking them throughout the day waiting for something to come out...lol. My other cat strolls the barn rafters for pigeons while the other takes care of the gophers and snakes. They are a good team even though I honestly don't really mind the pigeons and defintely don't mind the snakes at all. |
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Location: Montana | I think we need some snakes like that around here. We only purposely run over rattle snakes...but my dad was bit by one a few years back and made him really sick. Around here there is almost something wrong with you if you don't run over or kill a rattle snake. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Learn something new every day. Back home we just call those Black Snakes... I used to relocate them from the hen house to the hay barn all the time... They are very fond of eggs.. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | If more people would actually educate themselves on snakes.....but I won't go there :)
I do respect that many people are terrified of snakes. But I have more reason to be terrified of fellow humans then any snake out there.
That's why I was whining to my husband the other week about snakes. We killed another copperhead. I won't kill any snake unless it's a threat and close to the house/barn/animals. But I also know the more copperheads we have around, the less non venomous snakes we have. And I was whining about it because I WANT snakes in my barn. We can't have a barn cat. Our Aussies murder cats. So hubby brought me home a snake last week. I don't know if he is still around but I turned him loose last week at the barn. |
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| GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
I would have screamed like a girl and peed my pants. Someone probably would have had to call an ambulance because I know I would have hurt myself badly trying to get away!
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | Just Bring It - 2014-05-30 10:36 AM Those are so pretty in person! I don't have a problem with snakes at all. We mostly just have Garter snakes around here and I love seeing them. I usually come across a few when riding out in my pasture. My cats enjoy "playing" with them as well. I have one cat that has a set of holes that he checks daily. He will go from hole to hole checking them throughout the day waiting for something to come out...lol. My other cat strolls the barn rafters for pigeons while the other takes care of the gophers and snakes. They are a good team even though I honestly don't really mind the pigeons and defintely don't mind the snakes at all.
I hate garter snakes for the reason that my idiot dogs seem to think they have to roll where they slithered and then play with the stupid things. My choc. lab will pick them up and throw them up in the air, catch them and repeat.  |
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Location: In Ky following Barrel Races & Walker hounds. | cyount2009 - 2014-05-30 12:26 PM
GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
I would have screamed like a girl and peed my pants. Someone probably would have had to call an ambulance because I know I would have hurt myself badly trying to get away!
I would have probably half way beat myself to death trying to get away from him lol |
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Location: Never in one place long | GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
Oh dear Lord I would DIE!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!! |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
I would have shipped my pants..LO |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | missroselee - 2014-05-29 1:26 PM If more people would actually educate themselves on snakes.....but I won't go there :)
I do respect that many people are terrified of snakes. But I have more reason to be terrified of fellow humans then any snake out there.
That's why I was whining to my husband the other week about snakes. We killed another copperhead. I won't kill any snake unless it's a threat and close to the house/barn/animals. But I also know the more copperheads we have around, the less non venomous snakes we have. And I was whining about it because I WANT snakes in my barn. We can't have a barn cat. Our Aussies murder cats. So hubby brought me home a snake last week. I don't know if he is still around but I turned him loose last week at the barn.
I agree........I have to hold my fingers back everytime I see a post on a snake killing........like is a badge of honor............ |
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Location: your guess is as good as mine | My "resident" rat snake got run over last year, so I've been hoping another would move in. Was feeding Thursday night & heard a rustling in my feed room...looked in the corner behind a couple of containers and had not one but TWO!! They were gone the next morning but hopefully they didn't go too far...  |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | DLV - 2014-05-30 1:17 PM
GoMistyGo - 2014-05-30 10:20 AM
I few years ago I had a very large rat snake living in my barn - they kill mice and such things so I was ok with that. I usually did not see him.... I was also ok with that.
Then we got some strong rains and every thing flooded. I went to slide open the door to my feed room and the snake fell on me. He was curled up on top of the door to get away from the moisture..... Yes,.... that was toe nail curling scary and gross and everything.... Apparently the snake felt the same way as he moved out that very day....
Oh dear Lord I would DIE!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!
Oh, no!! I don't mind snakes, but I don't want them falling on me! I would have been running around screaming! |
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Location: Kansas | I have many many toads living around my house and barn. When I have a lot of toads I have no spiders or roaches in my basement and not many flies or beetles around the barn. For that reason I kill every snake I see on the place because they feast on my toads. It's all they're interested in and the toads are easy prey. |
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| We used to have an indigo snake living on the property, not sure if he's still here or not. Haven't seen him in a long time. have a good size rat snake that lives under the feed shed. Any nonvenemous snake is welcome here. We often catch them and hold them a few minutes and then let them go.
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