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Help me identify these snakes...
Ramtinxxl
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Pete
only good snakes a dead one, and those my friends are no good.
a lot of locals there call them cigarette snakes, in other words,if you get bit you sit back, have a smoke, and by the time you have smoked half of it you are dead![xx(]
That's your opinion. My opinion is that you have a lot to learn.
quote:only good snakes a dead one, and those my friends are no good.
That's your opinion. My opinion is that you have a lot to learn.
I agree, snakes eat disease carrying rodents, long live the snake!
same with spiders, who eat mosquitoes forever love the spider! Frogs rule too.. as long as frogs kill flies and mosquitoes I will never kill a frog.
Merc [:p]
quote:Originally posted by nunn
quote:only good snakes a dead one, and those my friends are no good.
That's your opinion. My opinion is that you have a lot to learn.
I will kill a snake, too, if it is causing a problem and killing it is the only way I can deal with it. Same with just about any varmint. I don't like killing critters, but I will if it is causing me a problem or if I am going to eat it.
Since my turtle post, I have been soundly upbraided and educated, and vow to leave the snappers alone unless I am convinced they are causing trouble.
Merc, you are a funny guy!
I will kill a snake, too, if it is causing a problem and killing it is the only way I can deal with it. Same with just about any varmint. I don't like killing critters, but I will if it is causing me a problem or if I am going to eat it.
Since my turtle post, I have been soundly upbraided and educated, and vow to leave the snappers alone unless I am convinced they are causing trouble.
Dad would even relocate the rattlers that came up to the house. He always said the snakes controlled his two worst problems, rats and rabbits.
i shall have to remember that some senses of humor go to sleep before some of us do.
I didn't see the changes start coming around until the 60's. After a few folks were over run with rats and rabbits, they started seeing some good in the snakes. The poisonous snakes we dealt with mostly were rattlers, and they are not very agressive, so a little common sense, and one could avoid trouble and benifit from the good they had to offer.
He never quit killing poisonous snakes, but he did learn how to tell the difference and to leave the harmless ones alone.
The black one with the white, rather irregular white bands is a California King Snake....virtually a certainty, even with this rather poor photograph. The lighter snake the woman is holding is tough to call, but I'm going to guess a Rosy Boa or a Corn Snake, but I don't know for sure. The third snake is too blurred or too small to make the call, but it could be a Gopher Snake, a Bull Snake or another boa of some variety. Need better photos to tell for sure.
None of these snakes are harmful to man. Even if they bite you, all that will happen is a tiny punture, if that. More likely an abrasion rather like a tiny saw scrape. Snakes are a big help to me in controling squirrels around here. We have a lot of the California King Snakes this year. They are very beautiful. I leave out waer for the snakes. and if I catch them around here, I relocate them to a squirrel burrow. Rattlesnakes are pretty shy and only come up when it has been really hot for several days and they want water. I have handled rattlesnakes before and if you are calm and slow the snake will crawl all over you, testing your scent with its tongue and then move quietly off.
I'm guessing this woman is using the snakes in some sort of healing procedure. I guess she feels she needs the snakes to either focus her power or to act as an intermediary to stop noxious feedback from the patient. If she were a more practiced healer, she would not need the snakes.
i find that a .22 and a healthy appetite keeps the squirrel population under control, have gotten pretty good at knockin the little buggers out of the nut trees around here (SHHH! ,,, BEEN PRACTICING ON SNAKES!)[}:)][:D]
I live way back in the hills. If you come across a snake, more than likely it is not poisonous. To assert otherwise is to display ignorance.
"family was from way back in the hills and hollars, and chances were that if you came across a snake it more than likely was poisonous"
I live way back in the hills. If you come across a snake, more than likely it is not poisonous. To assert otherwise is to display ignorance.
christ on a cracker, i dont think that my reminisance and attempt at a joke should be met with such put downs. to say that my grandfather was DISPLAYING IGNORANCE is a fallacy. fact. you dont know what hills and hollars he grew up in in the early 1900s, unpopulated means higher animal population.
fact. i have been there with him to visit friends and relatives, and for your information EVERY snake that i ever saw there was either A-RATTLESNAKE or B-COPPERHEAD or C- COTTONMOUTH. those are facts.
last i checked those snakes are ALL POISONOUS, to assert otherwise is your own display of ignorance.
OK, but most times Cottonmouths don't live in hills, they live by the water. If you got bluegill fishin in them hills, I wanna come visit![^]
FWIW: I've been in plenty'o hills what had streams, ponds, creeks, painted onto the landscape. Did anyone suggest that hills must be barren of water features? Cottonmouth moccasins and copperheads (aka "highland moccasins") can be found pert near anywhere ya look in some parts.
quote:only good snakes a dead one, and those my friends are no good.
That's your opinion. My opinion is that you have a lot to learn.
Amen to that! So many people are afraid of snakes so they want to kill every snake they see, even if they are harmless and keep the rodent and insect popultaions in check!