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Location: Red Raiderland | Just saw this slithering through the grass in our front yard. I think it's a rat snake and didn't want to kill it but my husband didn't care he just wanted it to be a "dead" snake!
I just wanted him to move it out of the front yard and take it down by the trees. Nope, he killed it!  
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Location: SE KS | No picture!!! |
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Location: Kansas | is it a light brown/silverish color with large cooper spots |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | .....and a triangular head? Those ones are nice for petting. |
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Location: Kansas | Bear - 2016-03-31 3:04 PM .....and a triangular head? Those ones are nice for petting. juvenile rat snakes look more like this, then blacken out. That's why I asked about colors.
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Location: SE Louisiana | Bear - 2016-03-31 3:04 PM
.....and a triangular head? Those ones are nice for petting.
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Oh shoot, I got a message that the boards were flooded and to come back in 30mins. I didn't even think this post got posted. Sorrrrry y'all. Let me get the pic up. |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Bear - 2016-03-31 3:04 PM .....and a triangular head? Those ones are nice for petting.
Aren't you the sm@rt@ss of the boards today. Actually, he didn't have a diamond shaped head but he did raise up and fan the sides of his neck just like a cobra! WTH?!?
Hey, at least we keep the turkey buzzards fed around here....
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | hoofs_in_motion - 2016-03-31 3:16 PM Bear - 2016-03-31 3:04 PM .....and a triangular head? Those ones are nice for petting. juvenile rat snakes look more like this, then blacken out. That's why I asked about colors.
When we see snakes with that color and the distict hour glass spots on their back they are going to die! We have tons of copperheads out here and they look eerily similar. It is that time of year now that I really have to watch my little dogs on our walks because there are a bunch coming out for the warm spring days. We usually kill at least a dozen a year. DIS-GUST-ING! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Kaycee - 2016-03-31 2:03 PM Just saw this slithering through the grass in our front yard. I think it's a rat snake and didn't want to kill it but my husband didn't care he just wanted it to be a "dead" snake!
I just wanted him to move it out of the front yard and take it down by the trees. Nope, he killed it!
That is a Eastern Hognose snake, very harmless and good to have around to eat mice and rats, I call them a puffer. Google them they are really a cool snake, they sure can scare the crud out of you when they do the spreading of the neck area. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Hognose. Great snakes to keep alive |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Southtxponygirl - 2016-03-31 5:54 PM Kaycee - 2016-03-31 2:03 PM Just saw this slithering through the grass in our front yard. I think it's a rat snake and didn't want to kill it but my husband didn't care he just wanted it to be a "dead" snake!
I just wanted him to move it out of the front yard and take it down by the trees. Nope, he killed it!
I knew it wasn't venomous. Dang it. I was googling it and I found the exact snake y'all are talking about. It did puff up and kept coming towards me but was probably trying to get back to the flower bed.
Oh, well, now there is a frenzy over one two foot long snake.
They fixin to throw down, Yo!
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I couldn't zoom in on your picture. But, that would be the right angle to tell if it's poisonous or not. If you can see their eyes from the top like that, they're not poisonous. That's been the easiest way for me to spot them, and you can see it from a pretty good distance. The venomous snakes have a ridge over their eyes and, when you're looking from the top, you can't see the little eyes because the ridge covers them.
I'll try to post some pics to show what I'm talking about. (wish me luck with that!)
NO LUCK! It's always so hard to attach pics, I give up.
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Location: Florida.. | That is a good snake to have around that sucks he killed it minding its own business |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Nita - 2016-03-31 8:33 PM I couldn't zoom in on your picture. But, that would be the right angle to tell if it's poisonous or not. If you can see their eyes from the top like that, they're not poisonous. That's been the easiest way for me to spot them, and you can see it from a pretty good distance. The venomous snakes have a ridge over their eyes and, when you're looking from the top, you can't see the little eyes because the ridge covers them. I'll try to post some pics to show what I'm talking about. (wish me luck with that!) NO LUCK! It's always so hard to attach pics, I give up.
Dang, I wish you could have gotten some pics posted. I go through the same thing having to resize the pics over and over in order to post them here. I use Paintshop to resize for BHW. |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Bibliafarm - 2016-03-31 9:05 PM That is a good snake to have around that sucks he killed it minding its own business
Yep, and I think we could use it as I have seen a few mice outside on the front porch. He was worried that our two Dachshunds would try to attack it so he killed it. I did tell him what y'all said and he felt bad for killing it. So there's that. |
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Location: Texas | Hognose snakes are so cute - they play dead and roll over. They also puff out their necks to look ferocious, but they are not.
50 lashes with a cat-o-nine tails to your husband for killing this nice snake! |
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Location: Kansas | So funny story.....back when I was 18, I found a big black rat snake sun bathing. I dumped out my big red tote bag and stuck him in it. I was going to stick him in a friends bedroom as a prank......well, stupid me left the bag in my car for an hour, went back to get the snake and he had slithered out of my tote bag into my car. I literally was so afraid to drive my car, i would drive with cruise control on and my feet up on my seat LOL. I still never found him. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Poor sweet little snake. He was just minding his business trying to get by in life. |
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