I agree. Butj if you know how to handle snakes even poisonous ones aren't bad. They are fairly stupid. Albeit fast they are usually more scared of you. Yes. I have been bit. By a cottonmouth. Knicked really. I was ten. I got lucky. Usually if you scare it and don't hear a rattle and aren't in copperhead territory or cottonmouth territory aside from a coral snake its usually non poisonous. Shoo it with a stick. Or call animal control for the safest way out. I just like snakes. I got about another decade before I can get another reptile as my RES turtle is only 20ish years old. He's got another 10-15 years with me. Anyway. I need coffee
~KM
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On Jul 1, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:
> If you aren't SURE, and can't identify it, NEVER assume it's NOT dangerous.
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> In my part of the country, the rat snake are solid black, adults being about 5' long, and up to about 2" at their thickest point.
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> We LIKE the (after all, they eat the rats. Amd mice. But sometimes the dogs find one and play "tug-of-snake"....
