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Martha left us a gift in the driveway.......
William81
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She likes to leave little reminders of her presence on our place....Not 100% sure what kind of snake this is, but it was very dead....Now I have to find her and make sure she is OK....
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It might be a copperhead, which this is. However for Martha's snake, the head does not broaden out enough into the "arrowhead" shape to qualify. It might be a milk snake. HeDog where are you?
Oh oh. Hoping Marth is OK.
Gray rat snake - some places in the South they are called 'oak snakes' - non-poisonous.
Best Regards - AQH
Don't believe it is a copperhead, but I'm not an expert, Hedog will know for sure...
Northern Copperhead, Akistrodon Contortrix Mokason
Yep, non poisonous and beneficial
Good Kitty
I found her playing around in the remaining hay....she if her usual crazy self....
Very good ^^^^^^^^
😃
It is now 11:35 PM and I can go to bed and sleep knowing Martha is safe 😀--------Ray
It is a rattle head water mouth.
better than brining in a live mouse or young rat into the house to show it off and letting it go . as I have heard some cats do 😁
My out door cat used to just bring me home various organs and gut parts from his kills. I'd often find those bloody parts in the seat of my favorite front porch rocking chair! 😲
Red squirrel kidneys are very small.
Dang right they do!!.......proudly displaying their "trophies".
Years ago.......our cat dragged in a half-dead rat to display to momma.
My better half was NOT amused.......resulting in the cat-with-rat flying out the back door......via a large broom assist.
Great entertainment for the wife's lesser half!! 😇
It is a juvenile black rat snake. Gray rats do not occur there, and the juveniles of several of the rat snakes display the color pattern of an ancestor species for a year or two. Not venomous and likely as good a mouser as Martha, But she is warm and purrs, so no contest.
I think the rat snake is a better mouser than the cat. The cat kills mice for fun. The snake does it for survival.
When I was a kid, we killed many varmints around the farm, but snakes were not on the list. Even if one got in the house my old man would catch it and put it in the corn crib to kill mice and rats. Of course, we had no poisonous snakes to worry about. We had a lot of bull snakes, which looked a lot like the one in the driveway picture.
I would have liked to shake your fathers hand. Gopher (including the bull) snakes and the rat snakes don't really over lap much at all, but similar color patterns occur around the world in similar habitat, because they work.