What kind of snake is this?

[silencio]

...aside from dead of course.

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[Major Kong]

Eastern King Snake. It's a shame that it was killed they are very valuable snakes.

[silencio]

I'm actually sorry I shot them now. Not because they're valuable but because they're non-venemous and they wouldn't have hurt anything. ..didn't know that this morning. They scared the **** out of me.

[Major Kong]

Yeah it's a major scare to walk out in the morning and see snakes in the yard. The King Snakes value is that vipers don't stay in their area. I've been a field environmental engineer (I'm not an environmentalist) for so long I just instictively know what to look for to distinguish a pit viper from a non-venemous snake (I bet I have had over 500 encounters with snakes-not including attorneys - about ½ rattler's or copperheads). I look at the head, then tail and lastly coloring & markings (which can be very misleading). One thing I do not miss about Arizona, I averaged about 3 Diamondback's or Mohave's in my yard every spring (Mohave's are much more aggressive and cop an attitude). In Arizona people would go out and get a Western King Snake and put it their yard. King Snakes are immune to the venom of a rattlesnake and they will constrict a rattler, so if you have a King in the area it's an excellent bet there isn't a diamondback/mohave around. The same holds true for the Eastern King Snake. I grew up in Virginia and a King Snake was a good sign there wasn't a copperhead around (didn't worry as much about rattler's, but they were around). No snakes in Alaska (Bear, Moose, Wolves, Wolverines yes - snakes and lizards no).

[Kymera]

Damn, Pak beat me to it, but he's right. It's a shame you shot them as they are beneficial. Bad iateyourcat, bad.

[Sandman72]

I couldn't get past the first pic. I tried but for some reason I have an intense phobia of snakes. I don't even like to see them on TV. I remember last summer my wife called into the house for me to come kill this gardner snake or something that was in the garden. I asked her if she has lost her mind. Told her if shes that worried about it to come inside Then she did something that still shocks me. She called me a choice word that starts with the letter p and endsin y. hehehe

[+Daemon+]

[quote]Originally posted by iateyourcat:
<strong>I'm actually sorry I shot them now. Not because they're valuable but because they're non-venemous and they wouldn't have hurt anything. ..didn't know that this morning. They scared the **** out of me.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Why dint you eat it?

I go hunt rattle snake here in my parts and eat em. Snake is very good

[+Daemon+]

what did you use to kill them?

[Lycia]

[quote]Originally posted by Sandman72:
<strong>I couldn't get past the first pic. I tried but for some reason I have an intense phobia of snakes. I don't even like to see them on TV. I remember last summer my wife called into the house for me to come kill this gardner snake or something that was in the garden. I asked her if she has lost her mind. Told her if shes that worried about it to come inside Then she did something that still shocks me. She called me a choice word that starts with the letter p and endsin y. hehehe</strong><hr></blockquote>

LOL, my gf is like that...we were at a store that had this large stuffed animal type snake that was coiled and you could wear it as a hat..I went to pick it up to put on her head and she sprinted...not ran, but dead heat, would have kicked the crap outa carl lewis in his prime sprinted out of the store...then got mad at me...another time at the zoo they had these small rubber snakes in plastic balls, she went to look at one then realised what it was and pulled her hand back as if it actually bit it!! She continually amazes me how scared she is of snakes..if she sees one on TV I can't even touch her neck for the next two hours cuase she thinks she feels it slithering on her....guess she wont like the nekkis pics of me and a snake...

[silencio]

[quote]Originally posted by Daemon:
<strong>what did you use to kill them?</strong><hr></blockquote>

My SIG 226 .40 cal. A shotgun would have worked better but I had fear on the brain.

[Renée]

I've seen my dad take a garden hoe and tear a garden hose (one of the black ones with the thin yellow stripes) completely to bits, with his feet touching the ground in short intervals only long enough to jump up again, while screaming obscenities. To add to the humor, my dad is 6'4" and about 300 pounds. His mother has the same fear. She blew the entire side off of one of the barns on the family farm with a double-barrel shotgun because she "thought" she saw a snake slithering up the side of it.

[Sowulo]

[quote]Originally posted by Renée:
<strong>I've seen my dad take a garden hoe and tear a garden hose (one of the black ones with the thin yellow stripes) completely to bits, with his feet touching the ground in short intervals only long enough to jump up again, while screaming obscenities. To add to the humor, my dad is 6'4" and about 300 pounds. His mother has the same fear. She blew the entire side off of one of the barns on the family farm with a double-barrel shotgun because she "thought" she saw a snake slithering up the side of it.</strong><hr></blockquote>


Ummmmm, there're medications for that.....

[Titchski]

This is my **embarrassing** snake story - its a bit long, sorry... I'm petrified of snakes, so moving to the sticks of Florida from downtown Denver probably wasn't the best idea, especially since one got in the house in January and started wandering around the living room.
Not having the first clue about what to do I called the Police (non emergency number) and they sent a rather nice lady around. Unfortunately, no one told her what to expect, and she flat out refused to apprehend the snake. Rather bravely conquering my fear, I cornered it under a bookshelf. The policewoman then started rattling a stick on the side of the case, then said "ok, lift it at your end, and we'll see where it is". Famous last words for me I'm afraid, the bloody thing was 3 inches from my foot when I lifted the case. There's two versions of what happened next. the "manly" story: That I let out an inhuman roar, threw the bookcase on top of it and then ate it raw, with chips, and the "p***y" (and true) version: That I screamed like a nine year old girl and dropped the bookcase on the snake, prior to jumping behind the policewoman and gibbering "is it dead? is it dead?"

Considering this turned out to be a two foot garden snake, I think I'd better move... fast, do they have snakes in Iceland or maybe Norway?

[Hippie_Tech]

My entire family has an unnatural fear of snakes. I'm not scared by snakes at all. Even the venomous kind. That's not to say I would go play with a venomous snake. I'd still keep my distance, but I wouldn't run away. I've handled a few of the local denizens of Nebraska (mostly gardner snakes and bull snakes), and have even been near rattlesnakes (Western Diamondback?). They don't seem to faze me at all.
Now get me near a spider of any kind and you'll see me jump away very quickly. Arachnophobia big time. Not sure where I got the spider thing from. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

[silencio]

We have spiders too.

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