TigrrrDad

Nope, it’s a milk snake. They look very similar, though the bellies look different.

You sure do ask a lot of irrelevant questions. Take your witch hunt elsewhere. :lol:

…and no, it’s not an alter. I switched accounts almost 10 years ago and it was never a secret. :lol:

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What ever happened to that guy that was live streaming and he got bit by one of the most dangerous snakes in the world and he was begging people for some anti venom? Seems like I read a story on here about that.

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Yeah I think it was an inland taipan, and he’s a nutcase who was free-handling but not safe free-handling (huge difference). Think he’s pretty much fine now but his kidneys are shot. If he’s not already on lifetime dialysis I’m sure he will be. Probably some lingering issues with other organs.

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Semantics, one of your boys got bit on the leg trying to show off a rattlesnake. How much did that go fund me raise again?

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Completely false. He was taking a couple from his church in their first herping outing. They stopped for a turtle on the road. He spotted a tree with loose bark and walked over to check for scarlet kings behind the bark. He didn’t see the Eastern diamondback (they are very well camouflaged) and it didn’t rattle. It tagged him in the leg. He didn’t show it off until after it bit him.

For the record, no one that I know personally has ever been bitten while free-handling.

Those two were around the size that they start losing that caudal lure. One was still a bit yellow, it just doesn’t show up well in that pic.

4 specks is legit.

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Good thing you are wearing snake boots, otherwise your foot would be vulnerable to a snake bite.

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The big cane nipped my buddy’s boot - same guy who got tagged by the Eastern diamondback in Dec. ‘24.
Thankfully he’s booted up now.

…it’s safer to hold them up near your face so they can’t reach your leg.

Spent a couple days running around North La. flipping tin with the Florida boys. 42 snakes/12 species including my lifer La. milk and Eastern coachwhip. We had a grey rat triple-flip and 4 double-copperhead flips. Louisiana milk snakes are technically no longer their own subspecies - they’re just considered Western milks now…though most locals will always call them La. milks. This one was in an area where Western milks and Red milks overlap and was an intergrade - pretty much looking like a typical La. milk except for a red head instead of a black head. Yesterday the guys hit another spot without me (I was driving to Dallas) and got 3 more La. milks!

1 La. milk/red milk intergrade
1 Eastern coachwhip
1 Canebrake rattlesnake
1 Speckled kingsnake
15 Eastern copperheads
6 Grey rat snakes
4 Northern cottonmouths
2 Eastern garter snakes
6 Western ribbon snakes
3 DeKay’s brown snakes
1 Black-masked racer
1 Plain-bellied water snake















The coachwhip played dead the whole time - even drooling…

My first concert was there - Queen on Halloween night in 1978.