EEPS!! What kind of snake is this? - Page 2

Michelle · #11 07-01-2009, 08:59 PM

Mystery solved. My mom called the DNR and sent them the pictures. They are juvenile black rat snakes and are not venomous.

I live on my dad's farm, but my mom and her husband do not live on a farm or even in the country. They are in the 'burbs. I love snakes...but everyone else in my family is terrified of them.

They were told by a neighbor that poisonous snakes had been found in the area, so that's why they have been killing them. But the guy at the DNR informed her that it is illegal to kill snakes in Maryland

The found a much larger snake with a big belly in one of their birdhouses tonight.

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Weasel · #12 07-01-2009, 09:01 PM

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......They found a much larger snake with a big belly in one of their birdhouses tonight.

And one less bird, oops!

Ishniknork · #13 07-01-2009, 10:14 PM

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And one less bird, oops!

Naw, being a rat snake it probably ate a Weasel that was after the birds.

Quicksilver · #14 07-01-2009, 10:23 PM

How many of you are comfortable with snakes?
Along with spiders I can appreciate where they fit in
to the scheme of things but they're still creepy........

I know some people who can't even look at pictures of snakes.

Ishniknork · #15 07-01-2009, 10:33 PM

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How many of you are comfortable with snakes?

Spiders scare me more than snakes. It's harder to tell if they're dangerous / venomous or not. Most poisonous snakes have diamond-shaped head.

Weasel · #16 07-01-2009, 11:28 PM

It's been years, but I had pet tarantulas as well. (just rose haired though)

The fun thing is when they molt the molting looks exactly like the spider, so you can really prank people good! (I must have been a bad kid huh?)

rayxi · #17 07-01-2009, 11:30 PM

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Spiders scare me more than snakes. It's harder to tell if they're dangerous / venomous or not. Most poisonous snakes have diamond-shaped head.

I'm with you. Spiders creep me out. I think it stems from a childhood incident when I was rough-housing with a buddy on the lawn and we tumbled up against a bush and a big spider fell out of the bush into my mouth.

I have no problem with snakes though, big or small. When I was in Thailand I had a 15 ft python draped on me for a photo.

Weasel · #18 07-01-2009, 11:42 PM

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Naw, being a rat snake it probably ate a Weasel that was after the birds.

A weasel would win a fight against a rat snake every time... weasels eat snakes! It would take a venomous snake or pretty big constrictor to make a weasel shy away.

vinuneuro · #19 07-02-2009, 12:16 AM

That would mess me up too!

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I a big spider fell out of the bush into my mouth.

jsears · #20 07-02-2009, 03:44 AM

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I see no need to kill the rat snakes either. They are very beneficial to a farm as motordavid noted, and these are one of the most harmless varieties of snake out there.

I personally over the years have had numerous reptiles as pets including milk snakes (close cousins to the rat snake), red tailed boas, ball pythons, a 12' reticulated python, saanvna monitor (the only mean one of the group) a 5 foot Asain water monitor (which was my all time fav, and I miss very much) etc. etc. etc. and the list goes on.

I actually removed rat snakes from the last shop I worked in regularly as they were on the edge of a wooded area. The only time I killed a rat snake I was on a camping trip... cooked the whole of the meat over a campfire (yummy), and salted the skin which became a great hat strap for my uncle.

You had an Asian Water Monitor? That's pretty cool!

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