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  • #1

    Snake People!

    Specifically, if you're from Florida.

    Anybody know what kind of snake this is? It was a good 3 feet long at least, about as thick around at its biggest section as a fat piece of large rope.

    Not 5 minutes after I come home I see this guy slithering right under my car (which means it had to have been close by). Snakes in general don't bother me, but Florida is full of nasty shit THAT WILL KILL YOU so I'd like to know if the damn thing is venomous, or not. (We do have the dreaded Eastern diamondback rattler in this area, as well as their psycho evil cousins the pygmy rattlesnakes.)
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    I want to say a Red Rat-snake, I'll have to poke Mr. Micer once he's awake to see if he agrees.

    http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology...isguttatus.htm
    That seem to match the picture?

    ...Hurray, I was right! He agreed and patted me on the head XD
    Last edited by Micer; 06-07-2011, 12:48 PM. Reason: The glee of knowing my creepy crawlies
    Okay everyone, lets all point and laugh at him right about....

    Now.

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    • #3
      Yup, I'm pretty sure that's a corn snake/rat snake. I own one!

      http://www.sparkcostumes.com/photos/...s/Dscn1158.jpg <--mine, for comparison.

      Completely harmless, no venom or anything. They're not even particularly prone to biting, though you can get nipped if you annoy one enough.
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      • #4
        Wow! He's a beauty, Spark!

        I really need to paint one of my dragon miniatures in this pattern.....
        "If your day is filled with firefighting, you need to start taking the matches away from the toddlers…” - HM

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        • #5
          Oh, that's a corn snake. Harmless, shy species. Very handy to have around, ought to put a dent in the vermin population.

          They can range from a brownish-copper-yellow tone, like the one we're talking about, through bright orange to rusty red tones.

          I've even seen tomato red/peach colored albinos.

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          • #6
            It's beautiful! I love snakes.
            When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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            • #7
              Still scary nonetheless. I've said it before here, I prefer my snakes (even the nonvenemous ones) on the other side of a pane of glass.

              My MIL had a snake scare a couple of months ago too. She came home and noticed what appeared to be a bit of rubber edging hanging off of the garage door when it lifted, only to realize it was a cottonmouth. She drove off again instead of driving under the thing in an open convertible and waited a while before heading home to make sure it had wandered off.
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              • #8
                all US venomous snakes tend to have a more cat like vertical pupil while harmless ones have round pupils-you can usually tell from a distance what the eyes look like(it's a very noticeable difference)-and the link Micer provided has the 6 species of venomous florida snakes.
                Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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                • #9
                  Quoth Kogarashi View Post
                  Still scary nonetheless. I've said it before here, I prefer my snakes (even the nonvenemous ones) on the other side of a pane of glass.

                  My MIL had a snake scare a couple of months ago too. She came home and noticed what appeared to be a bit of rubber edging hanging off of the garage door when it lifted, only to realize it was a cottonmouth. She drove off again instead of driving under the thing in an open convertible and waited a while before heading home to make sure it had wandered off.
                  I remember our last adventure with a cottonmouth, we found a rather large one sunning himself out in the dorm parking lot one afternoon, we were by a fairly swampy retention pond, so was always coming across interesting creepy crawlies. But we didn't want the fellow to get run over, so Mr. Micer found a long enough stick, and kinda poked him along into slithering into the grass and out of harms way.

                  Which we though was fine and dandy until we realized upon looking up that we sent him slithering in the direction of a homeless fellow who was also taking a nap out in the grassy shade of the dumpster on the other side of the chain link fence. Thankfully he woke up and moved on after our panicky fence shaking and 'Buddy! Hey! HEY! You gotta move! There's a snake!'

                  Still don't think he realized what we were freaking out over.
                  Okay everyone, lets all point and laugh at him right about....

                  Now.

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                  • #10
                    The eye thing is mostly true, but be aware that Coral snakes have round pupils and are indeed very venomous.

                    They look like Scarlet Kings and Milks. You can tell which is which by the color sequence of the bands. And being sequentially challenged as I am, I can't tell one from another. So I avoid any snake colored like this.

                    Yeah, smart to give a Cottonmouth a wide path. They tend to be more aggressive than most. And by aggressive I don't mean they'll chase you or anything, but they do tend to stand their ground more than the average snake.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
                      Yeah, smart to give a Cottonmouth a wide path. They tend to be more aggressive than most. And by aggressive I don't mean they'll chase you or anything, but they do tend to stand their ground more than the average snake.
                      Indeed, that's what the MIL said. Whereas, if I recall correctly, the rattlesnakes in that same area will at least have the courtesy to rattle to try to warn you away. I've gathered that rattlesnakes are generally non-confrontational if they can help it.
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                      • #12
                        They are. Usually, you have to work pretty hard to get bitten by a snake. Rattlesnakes, like most other snakes, are big wussies. They don't want any part of you. They look tough the way scared little boys act tough so they don't have to fight.

                        The reason you don't see snakes often is because though they are pretty much all around, they hightail it out of there the first sign of approaching feet, which they can hear and smell very well. They don't want to bite you...they don't want to be close enough. And if they have to bite, they don't even want to give up the venom. They might need it later to bring down supper. So for a snake to bite you, and inject you, takes him being pretty scared and desperate.

                        Want to know what other species of snake is surprisingly aggressive? A garter snake. Yeah. Garter snake has a little bit of a Napolean complex. I had one unhinge his jaw so he could turn around and bite me. Seriously, little bastard actually started chewing.

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                        • #13
                          Oh yeah. I caught a little Napoleon of a garter snake once. I grabbed him in the best spot, right behind the head, so he couldn't get at me, but MAN he wanted me. He was hardly more than a baby, maybe a foot and a half at most, but he was so incredibly pissed. Hissing and thrashing and gaping his mouth open. He really wanted a piece of me! But even then when I put him down and jumped back he slithered away, and not towards. Snakes just aren't aggressive creatures.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
                            They are. Usually, you have to work pretty hard to get bitten by a snake. Rattlesnakes, like most other snakes, are big wussies. They don't want any part of you. They look tough the way scared little boys act tough so they don't have to fight.

                            The reason you don't see snakes often is because though they are pretty much all around, they hightail it out of there the first sign of approaching feet, which they can hear and smell very well. They don't want to bite you...they don't want to be close enough. And if they have to bite, they don't even want to give up the venom. They might need it later to bring down supper. So for a snake to bite you, and inject you, takes him being pretty scared and desperate.

                            Want to know what other species of snake is surprisingly aggressive? A garter snake. Yeah. Garter snake has a little bit of a Napolean complex. I had one unhinge his jaw so he could turn around and bite me. Seriously, little bastard actually started chewing.
                            That's pretty much what I tell folks out here,these little prairie rattlers are more scared of you than you are of them,you're too big to eat & they're afraid you'll eat them.But all of us have had to take our dogs to the vet at one time or another to get them steroid & antibiotic shots after they tried to bite a rattler
                            "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.This is the principal difference between a man and a dog"

                            Mark Twain

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                            • #15
                              Last summer, my sister's dog not only stumbled onto a small rattler, but started clumsily dancing all over it in confusion.

                              She didn't get bitten somehow. I don't even know what you would have had to resort to to get that particular individual to bite. Note that I do not recommend doing the Fandango on top of a rattlesnake.

                              We were all like "Oh holy st, is that a rattlesnake she's on? Oh, there's no way that...o holy fk it IS. Piper! Get off the snake! Oh, st!"

                              Dog didn't get bit. I mean, yeah they have to be provoked to bite, but I'd say a dog repeatedly stepping on your head classifies as a provocation.

                              I don't get it, but I'm glad things went the way they did.

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