Look what I found this morning...
 

I didn't even see him at first hiding there under the plant stand. Isn't he/she cute??
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Holy shit! Scary looking fucker. :eek:
Is that a chicken snake?

oh my gosh, i didn't even notice it until the second picture. That kinda scared me.. Can't appreciate things when im scared, ill come back in a week.

That is just so cool. What a beauty.

That must have made your day :)

/me shudders....

What kind od snake is he and is it poisonous?

/me shudders with mal....

umm no i dont think any snake is cute!!!

I love it.

I wanna say it's an Indigo Snake, and if so, not poisonous at all.

I have a "wild" pet also. Never posted his picture from fear of being branded as "tilted". But if you have the fortitude to love a snake, I'll confess to having a pet snail!! He loves cat food and gets his own saucer every night.

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Snakes give me the freakin' heeby-jeebies. Yes, I said heeby-jeebies. In medical terms that means an intensely frightful feeling. I don't dig snakes that much. It would scare the crap out of me if I saw that in my house. I don't even like the thought.

New pets are nice, but keep him away from the hampsters.

what a gorgeous lookin' snake.


any idea what kind he/she is?


beautiful colour too........

That snake is gorgeous...it wouldnt be poisonous, there are only a few in these parts that are, the Rattlesnake, Coral Snake, and Cottonmouth.

Thats a Black Racer...completely non-venomous

Eastern Indigo snakes are not normal to South Carolina, usually only parts of Southern Ga, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. They dont have white on them...they are glossy blue/black (Nikki's is more matte than glossy) and their chins are reddish brown, rust colored, orange, tan or red, not white.

I feel like Im doing a school report on snakes hehehehe

Snakes + Bill O'Rights = Bill screaming like a little school girl.

What a handsome snake... while we have a couple of species in the area the only one I see with any frequency is the Garter Snake (yellow and black stripes)...

Yours just looks so cool... makes me want to reach out and stroke him.

Didn't I hear you say that same thing to Kramus last weekend...................... :lol:

Your just saying that because your jealous...


*bastard*

I so would not be happy to "find" such a thing anywhere near me. I don't mind snakes, I don't mind them when they are wherever I am not, that includes my porch. ::shivers::

Snake + Feelgood = Feelgood poking the snake with a stick and see if it gets pissed

Shani is right about it being a black racer (or common garden snake) it is completely harmless. I really liked the fact that he/she decided to curl up there. I really did not zoom in a whole lot to take that shot. I was sitting in front of the snake, maybe a foot away. I am not at all afraid of reptiles and I found he/she to be more beautiful then anything else.

I always wanted to be a herpetologist :)

"Snakes, why did it have to be snakes."

doesn't anyone else think that friggin snail / slug is fuking huge!!!!!! Maybe I'm weird but up here in canada, they are like an inch long tops!

Beautiful! I wish we had more snakes here. I don't even see the garter snakes that Charlatan claims to.

And hossified, we have slugs like that in my backyard in the summer. Perhaps you're in the wrong part of Canada?

I knew I shouldn't have second guessed myself!

I'm honestly a little upset... :p

Cellophane... I can't think of the last time I saw a snake in the city.

The only ones I see now are at the cottage... and by frequency, I meant rarely. Though when I was a kid, I do remember coming across a mess of garter snakes (there is a name for this that escapes me now) all twisted up together. THAT was very creepy.

I don't think I would be able to sleep if I saw that outside my front door. What if it gets in? Yikes! Plus, I wouldn't be able to post the picture because I would have broken the camera when I passed out from fear or ran like a crazy woman and bumped into a tree or something.

*Shivers*

I found a black racer crossing the bike trail a week or so ago. I hissed at it really loudly and it decided to reverse course. Fast. Very fast. That's good 'cause otherwise I'd've run over it with my bike, and I didn't want to do that.

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SirLance = 5, then 7.

i am not afraid of snakes,
but i am easily frightened by surprises.
that certainly would have surprsised me.

if i knew enough about snakes to know it wasn't poisinous,
i'd tried to pick it up.
i don't know ANYTHING about snakes.
so i would probably pee myself.

BUT thanks to our resident herpes-ologist, i now know, ummm.... cotton head? and ummm... triangle thingy.... damn. gotta go reread.

My mom ran over a snake when they were riding on a mountain trail. She is terrified of snakes, but didn't see it until she felt the bump. She was pretty rattled. I would have loved to been there to see her reaction, but not the snake.

mr/ms snake may be most cool looking & harmless, but if i saw that on my porch, i'd most likely tend to soil my britches!

the slug... i'd pour salt on that slimey garden munching thief! [sorry]

Saw this snake a few days ago while getting pictures for my butterfly non-thread. Not the same as finding one in the house, but gave me a startle just the same :hmm: Don't know what kind he was, but he struck me (pun intended) as looking kind of bumpy :D

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I would no doubt shoot that thing if it was on my porch. I HATE snakes!

Wish I could see a better close-up of that snake. He's probably harmless, but his pattern reminds me vaguely of a moccassin - and he is by water, which is where you'd find one. There are some common water snakes with similar patterns that are harmless though. Again, looking closely at his head, I don't think he is, but it's been a long time since I've seen one.

Where is this? What state? Also, I can't see the shape of his head very well.

I noticed when reading above, nobody mentioned the tell-tale signs of venomous snakes - at least those here in North America. I guess you folks weren't Boy Scouts ;).

Venomous - triangular shaped head, often larger than width of neck, eyes more slanted, bites you and it hurts like fuck and you need to get to the hospital before you die

Non-Venomous - more of a rounded head, closer in width to the neck, eyes are rounded, bites you and it just hurts


Snakes, that's okay. If this was a spider thread however.... I'd have closed the fucker before I saw any more pictures. Damnit I hate spiders.


Oh, and that slug... priceless. I laughed so hard!

I actually like snakes...well, except the ones that want to kill me. Those kinds of snakes I don't like.

I don't know how I would have reacted had I walked out on my front porch and saw one sitting under a table. Well, not sitting since they don't have legs, but you know what I mean. I'd probably let out a small gasp and quietly go back inside and stay there for the rest of my life.

Snakes are awesome, but if I saw a snake that colour on my porch I'd be calling the authorities.. usually the only black coloured snakes we have over here either have a red belly or a yellow belly >_<

The word is hibernaculum... whew. I had to ask my 10-year-old son to remind me but he came through in a clinch. And while a hibernaculum describes pretty much any chamber or covering used for hibernation, the garter snakes up here where it gets really cold in winter gather together in numbers close to 100 for the winter. Interestingly they always winter in the same hibernaculum every year (travelling up to 3 or 4 km to get there).

Can you tell this was eating me alive that I couldn't remember?


I return you to your regularly scheduled thread...

I admire snakes...but like someone else said, I don't like surprises, and that would certainly have scared the living daylights outta me. Of course the first thing I thought ofwas: Black Mambo! Duh. But we don't have black snakes in my neck of the woods (So. Cal.), so...you know.

We do however have the Mojave Green, which is chiefly known for the distinction of it's poison being both a hemotoxin *and* a neurotoxin. Most snakebite deaths in CA are due to Mojave Greens.