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What kind of snake is this?
Humblegunner's yard | 5/09/09 | humblegunner

Posted on 05/09/2009 5:27:52 PM PDT by humblegunner

This afternoon I happened to look out the back and saw something
black and long in the middle of the yard. I just mowed yesterday
so I knew the yard was free of sticks and such.

Turns out it was a big black snake!

He isn't a rattler, does not look loke a water moccasin or a black snake.

What the heck kind of snake is he? He has the triangular head which
means he is a bad one, but I can't place his breed.

Anyway, photography being as dangerous as it is, he got wrecked up some
which is just as well. He might have bitten one of the animals.

So who knows any herpetology?


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: assaultshovel; beneficialsnake; dead; herpetology; hgass; pestcontrol; snake; snakekiller
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To: humblegunner

we have been thru this b4 i know,
it is also Nazi not nazi, are you slipping?


281 posted on 05/10/2009 3:08:21 PM PDT by edzo4 (NoBama 2012)
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To: edzo4

If you look at pic 2 at the top of the thread and this :

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu5kySQdKCLUAAatXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcWtwOXAzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1NTMDFfMTI2/SIG=11pmvbgva/EXP=1242077874/**http%3a//www.wf.net/~snake/moccasin.htm

It should prove that both are cotton mouths,,,

“Western Cottonmouth, piscivorus leucostoma (pictured on this page), “

Notice the heads,,,

I’m 60yo+ from Louisiana and have killed many of them,,,

Where are you from if ya’ don’t mind me askin’ ?...;0)


282 posted on 05/10/2009 3:09:19 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: edzo4
it is also Nazi not nazi, are you slipping?

Just testing.

So.. if you know better, why do you write like a thirteen year old retarded kid?

Is it lack of education, inability to use a keyboard, laziness or what?

283 posted on 05/10/2009 3:11:21 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner

Got any cotton tails around your place? They know what to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcZh4isLvc

I never laughed so hard.


284 posted on 05/10/2009 3:16:01 PM PDT by davetex (If it's in stock, we've got it.)
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To: humblegunner

Careful, noodles...


285 posted on 05/10/2009 3:20:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator
My bad.

Still hyped up over the terrorsnake I suppose.

286 posted on 05/10/2009 3:41:36 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner
ok now that I know you are a 'big' guy do you look more like this guy?

Or this guy?


287 posted on 05/10/2009 4:05:03 PM PDT by edzo4 (NoBama 2012)
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To: humblegunner; TheMom
Here is a pic of snake ribs to smooth ruffled feathers.


288 posted on 05/10/2009 4:11:27 PM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: edzo4
You spent some time on that!

I'm flattered by the attention!

289 posted on 05/10/2009 4:11:53 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: edzo4; humblegunner

Well your surfing habits are pretty clear!

Note to gunner...... avoid this lil’ fella!


290 posted on 05/10/2009 4:13:21 PM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: edzo4; humblegunner; Admin Moderator
Dude edzoe, you went over the line. Would you kindly remove the pics labeled as humblegunner in the properties?Also ed, when are you gonna realize you were wrong about the snake?It was a stinking old cotton mouth that no one needs in their back yard.Why are you so stubborn to not understand that?
291 posted on 05/10/2009 4:18:09 PM PDT by eastforker (.)
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To: humblegunner

I took a field herpetology course over 30 years ago but the head is not a black rat snake, you are right, the head looks like a viper head even though the body looks like a common rat snake.


292 posted on 05/10/2009 4:18:31 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: Domestic Church
the head looks like a viper head even though the body looks like a common rat snake.

Thus my confusion.

It's better dead at any rate.

293 posted on 05/10/2009 4:22:43 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: Domestic Church; humblegunner
the head looks like a viper head even though the body looks like a common rat snake.

Could be the snake had recently eaten.

294 posted on 05/10/2009 4:30:11 PM PDT by TheMom (I'm gonna be a grandma! He is due to arrive 09/09/09.)
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To: TheMom

I’ve got plenty of rat snakes on our rural property and even have one loose in the house down stairs in the basement from the skin we find ever year. I’ve watched them eat with my kids...the head shape is different from the pictures shown at the beginning of the thread.


295 posted on 05/10/2009 4:38:25 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: humblegunner

Who knew killing a snake would cause such a ruckus???


Well, to be transparent, I very well might try to capture a snake I know not to be poisonous.

If I ran across yours, not only would I not be alarmed as it’s like no moccasin I’ve ever seen, I’d additionally probably mess with it as I’ve never seen anything like it.


296 posted on 05/10/2009 5:52:32 PM PDT by txhurl (fish are fixin' to fear me....)
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To: txhurl
I’d additionally probably mess with it as I’ve never seen anything like it.

And that is why it is dead.

Better safe than sorry. It was a big sucker and looked like it could kill my cats.

On my property? Death sentence.

297 posted on 05/10/2009 5:56:21 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner

Oh, no argument on the sentence and execution, I just really, really want to get that snake IDd as I don’t fear it and need to know if I should.

Snakes move around. While the US technically has 4 poisonous types of vipers, not true, as we import all of Mexico’s tiny little deadly vipers, in fact a woman was killed by one a few years back in one of our grocery stores while husking some Mexican corn.

Hey, man, just fedex me the snake on ice. I’ll figure this out.


298 posted on 05/10/2009 6:05:53 PM PDT by txhurl (fish are fixin' to fear me....)
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To: txhurl
Hey, man, just fedex me the snake on ice. I’ll figure this out.

Sucker is rolling along the bottom of the San Jacinto river now
or has perhaps reached the gulf. Fish food, one way or the other.

I'll keep an eye out for his kinfolks, though.

You'll be first in line to receive a biological sample.

299 posted on 05/10/2009 6:14:24 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: BelleAl
The first two “fish” I caught as a little child were cottonmouths. I don’t remember if it was at Sam Houston State or Dave Crockett State Park. My mom cut off their heads with a machete. I had quite the mom!

I hope you got some really nice stuff for Mom today - she's earned the best.

300 posted on 05/10/2009 6:17:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (If Nixon had been a Democrat, Woodward and Bernstein would have been Linda Tripp.)
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