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Topic: Pictures; a snake question; my "Border Terrier Wanna-Be" wearing a goofy hat...
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 15, 2004 07:09 PM
Hi, ok lots of random things. These are of the storm the other day, I thought it was really cool looking, and Kelly said I should take a picture. So I took .... several haha.
 lol you can see some jumps in the wee corner lol.
Thought this was kind of cute...
I cleaned up the barn the other day, and I'm proud of my work so I'm showing it off. Plus, you can see where Kayle lives!
Does anyone know what kind of snake this is? I don't.
Finally, April, my BorderX wearing a hat. Hehehe...
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CANDYGIRL
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posted May 16, 2004 12:01 AM
Erica,
That snake it looks like one of them nasty things I've seen, you know, when I was out with Steve Irvin ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
With that hat on she look all Border, just took them ears in a bit LOL
Here's my hip FULL Border ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Rosie sporting a Beeny hat and Nike Trainers
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Sandra-A1
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posted May 16, 2004 12:31 AM
It is hard to tell from that photo but if you have a pond or large creek around it could be a Water Moccasin...but then again the snake looks like a KING Snake...
King Snakes are great rat eaters and they eat other snakes, poisonous ones too...most welcomed around any barn we are at!
![[Eek!]](eek.gif) That first photo of the storm looks like a Wall cloud formation and if you lived here you would be watching for and hoping not to see, the tail of a tornado to be coming out of the bottom of it!
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Posts: 1863 | From: Alabama | Registered: Aug 2003
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 16, 2004 05:51 AM
LOL, on your adventures with steve, eh?
rosie's SO cute! haha yeah her ears are enormous...maybe i could get them pinned? hehe.
sandra - yeah it was REALLY still out, too. freaked us out pretty bad. then all of a sudden this HUGE blast of cold air came out of nowhere....i think there were tornado watches in effect, as well. i'm deathly afraid of tornados...
the snake...found it on the side of the road, but kelly and i killed one that looked like it at the barn the other day - it was swimming in the pond. think it was a Moc?
[ May 16, 2004, 05:52 AM: Message edited by: littlecelticpony ]
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Lucky Duck
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posted May 17, 2004 04:26 AM
Those pictures of the storm clouds are way cool.
The snake looks like a water moc... If the inside of it's mouth was white than it is a water moc. They are extremely poisionous and will cause necrosis (like if bitten on the finger, the finger will turn black and may fall off or need to be removed). They can be aggressive and have been know to attack without being provoked... so please be very careful around them!
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Posts: 338 | From: Virginia | Registered: Jan 2004
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 17, 2004 08:18 AM
oh, great. then the one me and kelly killed in the pond was a moc.
wow we're SO smart lol.
::rolls eyes:: well at least that's one less moc to worry about i suppose.
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Cyn
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posted May 17, 2004 08:23 AM
I believe that is a gopher snake. They keep rattle snakes away. If you want I can email the pic to my husbands really good friend. He is a proffessor in NV. That's all he does is reptiles. Do you have alot of them around your place? 
I love the pictures of the storm. YOu have a beautiful place!!
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Lou3
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posted May 17, 2004 11:28 AM
its a bit difficult for an amateur to tell from that photo but it could be a number of things including
P-melanistic corn snake
gopher snake
King snake
etc
Have to say i would vear away from the gopher snake cause the head os too broad, but you never know, my first instinct was that it is about the right size to be the p-melanistic corn snake.
Lou
Ps your barn is lovely
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Lou3
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posted May 17, 2004 11:30 AM
By the way - if it is a corn snake they are very docile non-poisonous and make excellent pets if you can get hold of them early enough! My friend has one in that colour.
Lou
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 17, 2004 12:10 PM
oooh a corn snake. i love them, my friend has an albino one, so sweet.
i didn't think of that. i just saw another snake today, lol, on kayle and my walk in the park. about four feet long. it was pretty, but i have no idea WHAT it was.
do corn snakes hang out in water? i didn't think so, but then again my friend's survived a trip through the washing machine, thereby earning the name "Scuba Steve",....
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QHGirl
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posted May 17, 2004 01:05 PM
OK seriously I would die if I was that close to a snake... NO WAY NO HOW!!!!!
Call me a chicken but if I saw one of those in Indiana you all would hear me screaming... even you Jane ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Lou3
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posted May 17, 2004 03:39 PM
i love snakes, my sister has a milk snake, very very pretty.
I want a royal python but i'm not allowed reptiles where i live just now and my sister wont keep one at her house for me ![[Frown]](frown.gif) .
Am getting a pair of rats in the summer though
Lou
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Klotira
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posted May 17, 2004 07:22 PM
In my opinion, that snake looks nothing like a cottonmouth. Cottonmouth's have very thick, heavy bodies and the snake in the picture is very long and slender. Also adult cottonmouth's loose their banded apperance, turning almost a blackish color. There are also tons of non-venomous water snakes that look similar to cottonmouths and copperheads.
At first glance, I didn't feel that it was a corn snake (I breed Corns) because the head looks odd to me...but as Lou said, it is a picture and it is very hard to judge on that. I have owned and caught corns that have had that drab look to them, so the coloring could be a corn. But it's hard to say. I just always tell people to just stay away from it if you don't know what it is. Better safe than sorry. But if it were me, I wouldn't kill it. I have seen to many people kill harmless garter snakes thinking they were rattlesnakes. Plus snakes aren't so bad, they keep your mice population down!
Lou, what kind of rats were you thinking on getting?
Posts: 16 | From: Tallahassee | Registered: Jan 2004
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 17, 2004 07:50 PM
i think it's head is weird because it's dead and it's jaw is like crushed. lol.
i love snakes but i don't like bad ones around my horses hehe. ;-) we had some mocs a few years ago. so....hm.
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 07:57 PM
Hey, which state are you in?
I've seen one like that before. And yes, it is poisonous. Most snakes can be identified by their heads. Triangular wide heads are usually poisonous, the rounded, similar to the body type heads are non-poisonous is usually the standard on first glance.
But there are a few that cross.
Let me know which state you are in. A friend of mine is an expert on snakes. All he needs to know is which snake it is to narrow it down.
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 17, 2004 07:59 PM
TEJAS!
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 08:05 PM
ok...thought so. Hold on. I'll see what he says. Got him on the phone and e-mailing him the pic now.
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 08:08 PM
he is 99.9% sure that those are Copperheads!!!
This is what he sent me....off of another website.
Adult body length: 24 - 36 inches
Body length at birth: 8 to 10 inches
Breeding period: August to October, and February to April
Young per year: 3 to 10 live young
Typical foods: Small rodents, small birds, insects, lizards and frogs
The Northern Copperhead Snake is closely related to the dangerous Eastern Cottonmouth Snake, a venomous snake that does not live in nature in Ohio.
Look familiar???
KILL THEM ALL!!!!
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 17, 2004 08:10 PM
freaky.
do they go in water at all?
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 08:12 PM
Now I used this stuff on my property and so did our neighbor up in Kansas. Never had snakes again. Before, we had little garder snakes. I love them. But she shot them all the time. So we got that and did both of our yards and worked pretty good.
http://www.nixalite.com/wcp.htm
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 08:16 PM
yes. I've seen them down around Guadalupe river all the time.
In and out of the water.
Here is a really good website about them.
http://sites.state.pa.us/Fish/copprhe.htm
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littlecelticpony
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posted May 17, 2004 08:21 PM
hm that REALLY looks like the snake i saw today on my walk with kayle.
doesn't really look like the one me and kelly killed in the pond the other day, though. hmm.
i may get some of that snake away stuff, good idea.
or a shotgun, hahaha.
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 17, 2004 08:26 PM
Here is the website that my friends uses for quick references...and where he got me that info.
He is working on something similar for a quick click and go id page for snakes.
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/products/snake/quick%20id/quickid.html
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