ID this snake?

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:59 pm

Put it in with your other snake. I'm sure they would both enjoy the company. At least one of them would, anyway.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:00 pm

gonzo914 wrote:Put it in with your other snake. I'm sure they would both enjoy the company. At least one of them would, anyway.

I love my kingsnake too much. At under a year old, he's about 10 times smaller than this beast.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:02 pm

Cranberry wrote:
gonzo914 wrote:Put it in with your other snake. I'm sure they would both enjoy the company. At least one of them would, anyway.
I love my kingsnake too much. At under a year old, he's about 10 times smaller than this beast.

I think that's why he suggested it . . .

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:05 pm

Lambchop wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
gonzo914 wrote:Put it in with your other snake. I'm sure they would both enjoy the company. At least one of them would, anyway.
I love my kingsnake too much. At under a year old, he's about 10 times smaller than this beast.
I think that's why he suggested it . . .

And that's also why I would never do it.

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:09 pm

Yes, that looks like a corn snake. Pantherophis (ex Elaphe) guttatus.

Here's a pic of my subadult 'Chaco Rattlesnake' male.

Flogging Jason · Post by **Flogging Jason** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:10 pm

Here's some pine snake pics: http://www.snakesandfrogs.com/scra/snak ... nejuv1.jpg

Another possibility is the Bull or Gopher snake. I'm still banking on it being some variety of Rat Snake, though.

KatieBell · Post by **KatieBell** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:12 pm

Bothrops wrote:Yes, that looks like a corn snake. Pantherophis (ex Elaphe) guttatus.

Here's a pic of my subadult 'Chaco Rattlesnake' male.

Is he paper trained?

Oh! Did you see that rattler video with the talk show host? I'll have to find it.

Post by **Dale** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:37 pm

Die. Die snake die.
Kill.

Kill it.

Wonder, then, about what kind of dead snake it is. After it is dead. O die snake.

Snakes make me uncomfortable.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:43 pm

Dale wrote:Die. Die snake die.
Kill.

Kill it.

Wonder, then, about what kind of dead snake it is. After it is dead. O die snake.

Snakes make me uncomfortable.

I always wonder why snakes make so many people uncomfortable. I wonder if it's not related to primordial memories (or "collective consciousness" in Jung's terms) of the Garden of Eden.

I mean, it's basically just a turtle without a shell or legs who eats rats. I never met a person who's afraid of turtles.

Bothrops · Post by **Bothrops** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:50 pm

I have a friend who is afraid of Alligator Turtles, I think he's crazy!

j/k

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:01 pm

Bothrops wrote:I have a friend who is afraid of Alligator Turtles, I think he's crazy!

j/k

Them things run wild around here and they can bite your fingers clean off!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:15 pm

I found this description of KY snakes. I think it's it...

http://www.kentuckysnakes.org/snake_det ... ard_snakes

It's so beautiful. But I'm going to let it go in the morning.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:27 pm

Cranberry wrote:
I wonder if it's not related to primordial memories (or "collective consciousness" in Jung's terms) of the Garden of Eden.

I mean, it's basically just a turtle without a shell or legs who eats rats. I never met a person who's afraid of turtles.

Nice looking snake.

Eden? Ya... I'm sure that is it.

Oh, and here is a turtle to fear.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:27 pm

It really is better off in the wild.

As far as turtles go, I had a dog who was scared stiff of box turtles. That's right...ordinary, harmless little box turtles. We used to get them in our yard in North Carolina, and he would totally freak out. It got to where, if he were trying to get into the garbage or something like that, all we'd have to do is say "Cedar, there might be a turtle in there" and he'd never go near it again!

Fear of snakes, spiders and rodents are among the most common human phobias. My guess is that it's in our genes...some kind of self-preservation code that's never really died out. For myself, I'm not at all bothered by snakes (I find them fascinating) or rodents (I think they're cute!), but spiders make me break out in a cold sweat.

Our mailman in NC was terrified of snakes. We got our mail delivered right to our front door after he discovered the green tree snake who lived in the mail box....

Redwolf

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:37 pm

Redwolf wrote:It really is better off in the wild.

As far as turtles go, I had a dog who was scared stiff of box turtles. That's right...ordinary, harmless little box turtles. We used to get them in our yard in North Carolina, and he would totally freak out. It got to where, if he were trying to get into the garbage or something like that, all we'd have to do is say "Cedar, there might be a turtle in there" and he'd never go near it again!

Fear of snakes, spiders and rodents are among the most common human phobias. My guess is that it's in our genes...some kind of self-preservation code that's never really died out. For myself, I'm not at all bothered by snakes (I find them fascinating) or rodents (I think they're cute!), but spiders make me break out in a cold sweat.

Our mailman in NC was terrified of snakes. We got our mail delivered right to our front door after he discovered the green tree snake who lived in the mail box....

Redwolf

I used to know a pit bull who was TERRIFIED of rats. When I introduced my hairless rat to him, he whimpered and ran away, to try to hide under the couch. Every time you brought the little rat near him, he became extremely anxious and cried. It's so strange. The dog was literally a hundred or more times as large as the rat.