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re: Coolest obscure snake you've seen in the wild
Posted on 5/22/12 at 12:55 pm to USMCTiger03
Posted on 5/22/12 at 12:55 pm to USMCTiger03
I found one of those mud snakes slithering into my open garage last year, gently removed him and took him back outside, very docile snake.
This post was edited on 5/22/12 at 12:59 pm
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Posted on 5/22/12 at 12:56 pm to USMCTiger03
I have seen most of the snakes La has except a coral snake.
I think one of the prettiest snakes I have ever seen was a small copperhead. The color was amazing.
I think one of the prettiest snakes I have ever seen was a small copperhead. The color was amazing.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 1:09 pm to Topwater Trout
I see tons of speckled king, chicken/corn/rat snakes, black/blue runners, copperheads, and canebreak rattles. Really wanna see a large Eastern Diamondback
Posted on 5/22/12 at 1:16 pm to USMCTiger03
quote:
What kind is that?
Canebrake
And no, Muddy doesn't come out much even at night in a dark room. He seems to like to hide a lot. The Gray-Band is very active, and kind of neat to watch because he climbs on top of the rocks in his cage and hangs out. He's a piggy though so he's usually looking for a frozen mouse dangling in front of him.
This post was edited on 5/22/12 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 5/22/12 at 1:24 pm to Dorothy
Snakes I have caught in Louisiana and kept as a pet
Speckled King
Mud Snake
Black Racer
Blue Runner
Rat Snake
Corn Snake
Broad Banded Water snake
yellow belly water snake
copperhead
hog nose
never seen a rattler or coral snake, though I always wanted to as a kid.
We called those eels mudpuppies. We'd go catch thme after a good rain in the summer. Had a big one in ditch by my house, prolly about 4 feet long bit my cousin in the hand and he had to go to the hospital and get stitches. They gots teeth.
Speckled King
Mud Snake
Black Racer
Blue Runner
Rat Snake
Corn Snake
Broad Banded Water snake
yellow belly water snake
copperhead
hog nose
never seen a rattler or coral snake, though I always wanted to as a kid.
We called those eels mudpuppies. We'd go catch thme after a good rain in the summer. Had a big one in ditch by my house, prolly about 4 feet long bit my cousin in the hand and he had to go to the hospital and get stitches. They gots teeth.
This post was edited on 5/22/12 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 5/22/12 at 1:52 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
I think those eel like creatures are different than a mudpuppy
Mudpuppy
Amphiuma
Mudpuppy
Amphiuma
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:28 pm to USMCTiger03
Not obscure but:
Water Moccasin (Cotton Mouth) I shot to death last fall.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:33 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
You are a god dang murdering a-hole.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:35 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Broad-banded. Just sayin'
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:43 pm to AlxTgr
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Broad-banded. Just sayin'
Alx, i have a confession.
You have helped change me from an unashamed snake killer, to a respector of snakes and its species.
I feel like Paul in the New Testament.
This post was edited on 5/22/12 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:46 pm to thedice20
He should change his name to Brian
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:57 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
Good call. Guess I was learned the wrong name o dem things. It was Amphiuma's we would catch and bit my cousin
Posted on 5/22/12 at 2:57 pm to thedice20
While I don't kill them, I don't get nearly as bent as some here do for snake killing. I know it's going to happen. My crusade is more about identification. Kill all the water snakes you want. I've been bitten enough by those stinky bastards to not really care. I do kinda hate seeing rat and kings killed, but again, it's going to happen. I ain't even mad.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 3:30 pm to USMCTiger03
Coral Snake. I was about 10 sitting on a log listening to my Grand Paw's dogs run a deer. I heard a light rustling sound down around my feet and there he/was.
Pine Snake
Coach whip--hardly see them now.
Hog nosed. Had 3 as pets when I was a kid before I learned they didn't do well in captivity.
San Diego County
Ring Necked snake - beautiful
Pine Snake
Coach whip--hardly see them now.
Hog nosed. Had 3 as pets when I was a kid before I learned they didn't do well in captivity.
San Diego County
Ring Necked snake - beautiful
Posted on 5/22/12 at 3:33 pm to windriver
quote:Mine would not eat. Had to let it go.
before I learned they didn't do well in captivity.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 3:36 pm to AlxTgr
I kill any poisonous snakes and anything that looks too much like them. Kings, rats, etc I don't bother with. I've got a corn snake that lives in my back yard that I love coming across because he's so pretty and even though I jump every time thinking copperhead, it's obvious immediately he's not so he gets to live. But I have a problem with water snakes eating the goldfish in my little pond on the patio. Those get whacked even though I know what they are because they look too damn much like a cottonmouth, they creep me the hell out when I go out there barefoot at night to piss in the yard like a real man, and they eat my goddamn goldfish!
Posted on 5/22/12 at 3:45 pm to faxis
Cats will do it too.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:33 pm to AlxTgr
Luckily cats get eaten here by the coyotes and bobcats the instant they get out of the yard. My poor daughters have gone through a ton of cats out here. There's a pack of coyotes that specializes in them.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:56 pm to faxis
Mmmmmm....cat on a stick.
Posted on 5/22/12 at 5:56 pm to USMCTiger03
few of theseand bunch of these and one of these while in Liberia - we lived at a place called mamba point...
This post was edited on 5/22/12 at 7:14 pm
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