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Speaking of Snakes...

Postby eSJay » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:39 pm

will someone please identify this one for me?
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Postby aweyerman » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:45 pm

A headless one if I was to see it. :lol:
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Postby britlab » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:49 pm

Looks like a southern brown snake to me.

They are harmless and just eat slugs and worms.
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby cockandlock25 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:52 pm

never seen one like that before...
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby BR549 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:07 pm

A harmless one! I agree with Britlab. Let him live! Help keep the mice down!
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby Seymore » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:58 pm

Looks like a pigmy rattlesnake to me but what do I know.
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby duck_nutt » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:25 pm

COPPERMOUTH MOCCAHEAD
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby eSJay » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:15 pm

thanks guys.........i guess ;-)
found 3 of these things near my house during the past week or so & wife is freaked out by them. tried to explain to her that some snakes are suppoesedly "good" (even though i've never really studied them enough to know which ones), but she wants em dead. so guess what they are now...................wait for it...................that's right, they dead. oh well, maybe next time I can save the good ones.
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby duckhead'71 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:24 pm

Midland brown snake....eats grubs, soft shell insects, things of that nature. Caught two last week , put them in a terrarium to show the neighborhood kids, and they locked up and mated for over an hour. Quite an educational moment.
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Postby happyhollowchopper » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:10 pm

+1 pigmy rattelsnake
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Postby quack_a_tack » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:06 pm

All I know is it was close enough for a pic, therefore it was close enough for a shovel to the head. Prob harmless, but the only way to know for sure is to let it bite you. Your choice!
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby BR549 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:28 pm

quack_a_tack wrote:All I know is it was close enough for a pic, therefore it was close enough for a shovel to the head. Prob harmless, but the only way to know for sure is to let it bite you. Your choice!
No it's not! Learn your animals of the wild! This is a benificial snake as with most of them! We only have like 7 poisionous snakes here in MS. We have almost 40 NON-POISIONOUS Water Mocassins here in MS alone!
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby duramax » Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:00 pm

BR549 wrote: No it's not! Learn your animals of the wild! This is a benificial snake as with most of them! We only have like 7 poisionous snakes here in MS. We have almost 40 NON-POISIONOUS Water Mocassins here in MS alone!
A water mocassin is another name for Cotton Mouth, which are poisonous.
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby Beaudog1 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:12 pm

$#!+ this sounds like the MDWFP forum now.... I'll toss my hat in the "good snake is a dead snake ring," but I've got a feeling some people may disagree.........
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Re: Speaking of Snakes...

Postby Deltaquack » Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:15 pm

BR549 wrote:
quack_a_tack wrote:All I know is it was close enough for a pic, therefore it was close enough for a shovel to the head. Prob harmless, but the only way to know for sure is to let it bite you. Your choice!
No it's not! Learn your animals of the wild! This is a benificial snake as with most of them! We only have like 7 poisionous snakes here in MS. We have almost 40 NON-POISIONOUS Water Mocassins here in MS alone!
We have 5.

Cottonmouth (water moccasin)
Coral Snake
Copperhead
Timber (Canebrake) Rattlesnake
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

I too kill non-poisonous snakes. My wife won't walk outside if she sees one until I do.
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