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re: What is this snake?
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:13 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:13 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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The picture you posted looks nothing like the OP. Cotton mouths are fat stumpy, angry little fricks that are usually midnight black. If not totally black very slight discoloration with no true pattern.
Happens but not really the truth. I've seen the patterns and I know my venomous snakes. In fact young CMs can have great patterns but alas, they commonly morph to dark in time.
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Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:13 pm to Martini
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Pulled a 6’ rat snake out of the attic of the farm and wife won’t hardly go back in the house.
My mother lived in an old farmhouse in Branch for years. There were numerous rat snakes living in the attic. Every now and then one would find its way into the house.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:16 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:20 pm to HubbaBubba
Rat snake. You must have plenty of food source for him
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:29 pm to soccerfüt
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Could be both....
Or neither.
Touche. My grammar sucks 16 years removed from school
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:32 pm to Chad504boy
"Any snake that big should be a dead snake"- Pussy
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:37 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
Whoever said that the pit vipers don’t climb has clearly never fished in the spillway. Can’t tell you how many times I was pulling bream from a cypress or gum bottom and looked up to see a moccasin in the tree.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:41 pm to michael corleone
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:48 pm to Martini
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Pulled a 6’ rat snake out of the attic of the farm and wife won’t hardly go back in the house.
How does she feel about rodents destroying stuff and building nests to make more rodents? Because that's what is going to happen after you remove the rat snake.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:51 pm to michael corleone
It was me. And I did add another post. I've seen them up close and personal at heads height in cypress branches in the Henderson swamp. I'm not a snake expert but I attributed that to an early April warm day with cooler water temps. The cottonmouths slithered up into the branches to bask in the sun. In a couple of examples I carelessly let the wind push the boat up right up to the tree. Concentrating on my position with the boat I looked into the branches as I started into the branches. I liked to shite a couple times. So I agree it can happen. But it's not likely in someone's back yard or along a shoreline where they can come up on the bank and bask.
So for me now, it was a rat snake or a king snake or a chicken snake or a milk snake or another of those egg and rat eating constrictors. I'm off to another topic.
So for me now, it was a rat snake or a king snake or a chicken snake or a milk snake or another of those egg and rat eating constrictors. I'm off to another topic.
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:53 pm to michael corleone
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Can’t tell you how many times I was pulling bream from a cypress or gum bottom and looked up to see a moccasin in the tree.
I'd love to see pics
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:53 pm to Jake88
You’re so edgy protecting the rat snake species
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:56 pm to Chad504boy
quote:I'm not edgy, just not a vagina who winces at snakes and spiders. The rat snake needs no protection.
You’re so edgy protecting the rat snake species
Posted on 5/24/19 at 7:58 pm to HubbaBubba
Join snake identification on face book. You will get an answer in a minute from a snake expert. Include your location.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:06 pm to Chad504boy
quote:Bad arse!
It would from me.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:12 pm to Chad504boy
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You’re so edgy protecting the rat snake species
We will change them in time. I wonder what responses I'd get if I confessed I love to go to birds nests and break all the eggs because I hate birds?
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:20 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
quote:It's different if you kill something out of pussified fear vs semi-sociopathic aggression.
We will change them in time. I wonder what responses I'd get if I confessed I love to go to birds nests and break all the eggs because I hate birds?
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:24 pm to Diver Diva
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How does she feel about rodents destroying stuff and building nests to make more rodents? Because that's what is going to happen after you remove the rat snake.
Nah. She’s been sealing that old house and found the last hole where the snake came in. She sent her carpenters the next day. Plus she has cats up there. Haven’t had a mouse in 4-5 years.
We leave the snakes alone outside but as she said that snake isn’t paying rent so he’s now homeless.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:28 pm to Jake88
quote:I wince at both of them, especially snakes, but I won't mess with either unless they enter my house. Luckily, we only have garter snakes here but we have some scary arse spiders.
I'm not edgy, just not a vagina who winces at snakes and spiders.
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