snakes

“bout 5 1/2 6 ft long, dark color with green? or yellow? markings. southern ohio. didn't get a good look. thats' about all i can say.
any guesses as to what it was? anyone know a place with pictures to compare to?”

“when i say fought i mean almost ate”

“the markings were real dull and head was very small(could ;have been missing for all i could see, it was in teh dog's mouth)”

“Eastern King Snake!

8D”

“never seen one before”

“Now you did!

8P”

“seems like my snake was a lot skinnier. i guess we don't have many rats around here.”

“They like mice also!
And birds!

8)”

“Did you see what kind of pattern it had?”

“where the heck you see that?”

“enature.com has some really good pics of snakes. You might find it there.”

“It was a pet python. North American snakes do not grow to six feet.”

“Oh, I thought this was going to be about someone with a case of delerium tremens. ;-)”

“Ya 6 ft is quite long!

8o”

“I've seen black rat snakes that come pretty close to 6'.”

“Yes there are North AMerican snakes that get that long. One is a corn snake that lives in my parents front yard. It's at least six feet.”

“What noises was it making??

Did it grunt at you?”

“i've killed rattlesnakes well over 6' in southern alabama/northern florida. quiet a few oak snakes close to 6, and a racer around that also.”

“"enature.com has some really good pics of snakes. You might find it there."
treebait
08:42:53 PM
07/29/02

I love that website. I found out about it through a link on Crazy Mike's webpage a while back (thanks CM!)”

“Artex- if you have any pets, you can drive them nuts with the birdcall recordings.”

“6 ft? part of it was in the dog's mouth and the two ends were dragging on teh ground. it had to be at least 5 but like i said i didn't get a real good look. it was getting dark. it didn't seem to mind, though, even after the dog dropped it he slithered away real slow. well, maybe it was hurt.”

“Okay outdoorspeople, I have a snake behavior question I hope one of you can help me with. I've been capturing black king snakes from the same point in front of my parents' house for years now. Do black king snakes live in colonies? I know I'm not catching the same one over and over. One was blind in one eye, another had a scar, etc., etc.,
anybody know about this?”

“Why does this remind me of... the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers?

(sorry! LOL)”

“Don't know for sure, but if you're capturing different snakes over time, it would seem logical that there must be a colony or family living in the neighborhood.

Black ring snakes are cool looking little things.”

“Treebait,

What do you do with the snakes after you capture them? Why not just let them be? They aren't dangerous, and they keep rattlers and rodents at a minimum.”

“If they are the same ring neck snakes I am thinking of, they are too small to eat rodents. They likely dine on insects and/or grubs and such.”

“Geobeet, she said black king snakes not ring snakes. The king snake is a fairly large snake quite capable of wolfing rodents and killing rattlesnakes...at least the California king snakes are.”

“The snakes live under the foundation of my parents house. THey both hate snakes. I relocate them to safe areas when I can capture them.”

“I saw a snake today in my garden. I went to get my daughters to show them, but when we got back, it was gone. Had a small head, not a pit viper, and was brown and gray with a diamond like pattern on the sides.”

“Sounds like a rat snake. Enature.com has a decent selection of snakes.”

“It took a while but I think I found it. The markings on the rat snake didn't quite match it, and it seemed smaller than the rat snake (I don't know how young it is though). The markings on the DeKaye's Brown Snake and the habitat and size seems to match pretty good. So maybe that is what it is.”

“Many snake species will congregrate during mating season and for kingsnakes in the Florida area it coincides with March. Hundreds of snakes will return to some area that offer protection such as any dark recess (animal burrows, wood piles, rocky crevasses, under houses). After mating the females spread out to nest (June) and males go about doing their thing. I would say you are seeing different snakes each time and a mating colony is somewhere in the vicinity (1/4 mile). The rest of the year they solitary. The snake will not bother anybody. Kingsnakes can get a bit testy and strike out but typically are harmless. Much more up-side to making it's home under your home than negative. You probably are creating a vacuum by removing the resident snake to only have that vacuum filled later.”

“Many snakes will ask for your vote in an election year.”

“Couldn't George Orwell write a story about a scientist who creates a race of cloned politicians without the genes for greed, dishonesty and addiction to misusing power.”

“When mice invade their house they will wish the snakes were back.”

“The mating colony is under my parents' house! Heh, hope they don't read this. THey occasionally check in here.”

“The rest of my family doesn't know that I associate with you people, LOL... And That's That Way I Like It.


Hmmmm. Nobody's going to 'bite' on the SMPTE comment... all the Zappa fans must be on sabbatical.”

“My son has his snake collection upstairs...about a dozen snakes total. One of his small king snakes got out sometime last weekend. We looked all around for it but couldn't find it.

Then a few days ago my wife saw it coming out of my office downstairs. She grabbed it and gave back to my son.

That is the fourth time one or more snakes have escaped. We found the culprits all times except one. The first time it freaked out my wife and daughters. Now they don't seem to over-react very much.”

“lol phil! one time, when i was a kid, my newt escaped and i found it dried up in the closet....poor lil newt....”

“Last month there was a guy here in the San Bernardino Mtns who was bit by a Rattler.

He didn't survive.

Here's the story.”

“LyndyS--your snake may have been a milk snake. We have one living under our garage, it eats lots of mice, and entertains the boys. they haven't been able to catch it yet, but it isn't very quick. I think it's size puts them off a bit-maybe 2"long! Beautiful brown grey and tan markings with diamondy sort of pattern. very attractive, for a snake.”

“A chick I knew in college had a pet corn snake. Cool looking thing. But one day it escaped from it's aquarium. She looked and looked but never found it. When she moved, six months later, she found it under the refridgerator still alive. It was a new place and mice were never seen so we have no idea if it ate anything.”

“tekdude - I wonder if it was a Mojave Green rattlesnake. Those guys are aggressive and their poison attacks two of the body's systems.”

“That's a good question. You think about that guy and all his days before his demise. That guy is somebody's son.

Googled up a field treatment discussion: Treatment

Plus, over at Encarta they've got an interesting quiz going: Snakes”

“A Milk Snake as well as a Corn Snake, and for that matter the western Gopher Snakes are all part of the Rat Snake family. All are very colorful and beautiful. They do well as pets too. Basically, with the Corn, Milk and Gopher, they're practically the same (DNA wise that is) with different colorations depending on their regions. As for the California King Snake, I was hiking out at Lk Sonoma a few years back and saw one eating a Rubber Boa.”

“just another day at the office :)
I picked this sweet thing up today. She is a

Burmese Python Snake and she is 12 to 14 feet.

http://community.webshots.com/album/551551950vHJHPA



Mapleleaf”

“Holy crap! That thing is huge and gorgeous. Why did it get removed from it's owner? Are there laws about having a snake that big or something or was it not being cared for.”

“

Snakey Mapes, Snake Wangler. ;-)”

“this kind of snake is not allowed so I had to seize her.”

“hey marko, this girl was bigger then the one in Maryland LOL”