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Post by shark on Sept 24, 2012 14:27:36 GMT -5
Anybody tell me what kind of snake this is we came home and found it in a bedroom ! Husband smacked him with a shoe and pitched him out the back door. about 8 in. long and a solid white underbelly. I'm scared to death now I'll find one in the master bedroom !!!!!!!!! How in the world did it get in , wonder? House is built on a slab, windows never open.  ? can anybody tell me if it's poisonous . My area seems to be snake-y. Attachments:
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Post by shark on Sept 24, 2012 14:28:06 GMT -5
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Post by phantom on Sept 24, 2012 21:45:31 GMT -5
Doesn't appear to be a diamond back rattler. Maybe a hog snake or a bull snake? Those two are not poisonous.
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Post by phantom on Sept 24, 2012 21:46:04 GMT -5
I could tell some snake stories from when I was a kid...
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Post by shark on Sept 24, 2012 22:33:22 GMT -5
That's alright.......no need to put yourself out. I'm scared to go to bed now. I went in master bedroom and looked under all the furniture I'm convinced they're every where now and am afraid to go to bed in there. I'll curl up in a fetal position and watch the floor all nite. I swear if something touches me in the bed tonight they will hear me back in Ind. Freakin' snakes. done killed 3 since I moved here now the sob's are coming in my fing house!!!!! Sometimes I don't shut the door all the way when I'm outside watering or going to mailbox maybe the little bas*** are coming in and I can't see up close like I used to either so a freaking anaconda could crawl in and I couldn't see it unless I put on my reading glasses. What is it about Tx. and snakes, anyway ?  |
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Post by phantom on Sept 24, 2012 23:08:45 GMT -5
If an anaconda wanders in call W-T. He went down to South America to get it just to scare you!
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Post by itsmyopinion on Sept 25, 2012 8:59:05 GMT -5
Its a Checkered Garter Snake www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recNum=AR0196Its actually a GOOD SNAKE... Gartersnakes, like all snakes, are carnivorous. Their diet consists of almost any creature that they are capable of overpowering: slugs, earthworms, leeches, lizards, amphibians, ants, frog eggs, toads, and rodents. When living near the water, they will eat other aquatic animals. The ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus) in particular favors frogs (including tadpoles), readily eating them despite their strong chemical defenses. Food is swallowed whole. Garter snakes often adapt to eating whatever they can find, and whenever, because food can be scarce or abundant. Although they feed mostly upon live animals, they will sometimes eat eggs. |
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Post by shark on Sept 25, 2012 13:01:18 GMT -5
Thank U very much for that link. Looked like it alright, 'cept, I think this was a young snake. Bet that means mama is around some place. Mama is gonna have to die ! LOL I finally fell asleep last nite. How anybody can handle those things is unbelievable to me. You see where they take those things into schools to educate them!!!!!!! If I had a kid I'd say your not showing my kid no snake. LOL I remember going to a zoo one time up in Ind. they had this one constrictor that was a monster snake. coal black, as thick around as my leg.  Think that set some wheels in motion in my head then one time and this was in Ind there was a big black snake laying across the driveway, but, up there we had a bubbling spring that formed a ditch around the back of the 20 acres. down here they sure as heck ain't no water around me, so, what do they want hanging around me? anyway, back to the snake in Ind. we looked at the driveway and I said "hahhaha that looks like a snake but must be a old tire. That sob started moving and I hollered GD that is a snake. told him get in the truck and run over him back and forth, so, he did then pitched him out in the pasture lot. He was a big black snake that had just fed on something ewwwww Lord that was one ugly MF. LOL I sure wouldn't go to the palo duro canyon bet that place is full of snakes. Don't those dang things freeze out down here ? Doesn't get as cold as where I'm from, but, it can get cold down here. why don't they freakin' die? |
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Post by itsmyopinion on Sept 25, 2012 15:12:02 GMT -5
Dont kill Mama.... she is there to take care of all the things that feed her young..... if you come in contact with a snake..... look behind you, then back up, and get a good look!! If it has a tiangle head and irises that look like they go up and down, Walk away.... If they are a snake, that looks like it has no neck, and round irises, them they are probably a good snake.... Just remember, "Red on yellow, kill a fellow; "Red on black, friend of Jack";.... most snakes are actually good snakes...there are very few venomous snakes in the Panhandle of Texas.... Most snakes are valuable to us ranchers, because they keep the vermin down.... AND if you see what appears to be a "big black snake"... take a better look!! It could be an Indigo snake, which is a protected specie and harmless to humans, and will kill and eat a rattlesnake www.rw.ttu.edu/sp_accounts/indigo%20snake/Food.htmLook |
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Post by shark on Sept 25, 2012 15:44:51 GMT -5
I'll take the vermin, thank you ......... ;D
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Post by sj on Oct 7, 2012 20:53:30 GMT -5
fall, snakes are on the move.....
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Post by itsmyopinion on Oct 8, 2012 13:35:50 GMT -5
Yep, all kinds are on the move right now.... my grandson now is keeping a hognose garter for a pet.... he found it in the field, and called his dad over to look at it before he picked it up.... its about 5 inches long, and getting used to being held and played with....
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Post by shark on Oct 8, 2012 20:12:31 GMT -5
 OMG ! He killed a ********* tarantula the other day ! Big ol' spider that looked like it had fur on it. I saw the dead body in the driveway and called it a spider and he said "I think that was a tarantula". I hollered "what in the hell next we find down here"! This place the wild outback or something ! I won't walk around in the dark anymore in my own home afraid I'll step on a d**n vermint. All I had in Ind. was invasion of ladybugs, ticks and mosquitoes , occasional snake. downhere it's like the jungles of Africa. 
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Post by phantom on Oct 8, 2012 20:22:43 GMT -5
Shark, you are too funny! I hope you don't have a cardiac arrest out here.
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Post by shark on Oct 8, 2012 22:27:36 GMT -5
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Think that set some wheels in motion in my head then one time and this was in Ind there was a big black snake laying across the driveway, but, up there we had a bubbling spring that formed a ditch around the back of the 20 acres. down here they sure as heck ain't no water around me, so, what do they want hanging around me? anyway, back to the snake in Ind. we looked at the driveway and I said "hahhaha that looks like a snake but must be a old tire. That sob started moving and I hollered GD that is a snake. told him get in the truck and run over him back and forth, so, he did then pitched him out in the pasture lot.
OMG !
