Snake experts, please step (or slither) on in... [Archive]

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 5:56pm

Can someone tell me what kind of snake this is? Thanks.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/lilredcorvette94/Miscellaneous%20Animals/snake_zps877d18e8.jpg

Bucwheat

08-19-2014, 6:03pm

A fat one! Looks like a moccasin.

Kerrmudgeon

08-19-2014, 6:05pm

I was going to say it looks like a rat snake, especially near the gutters like that. Well fed for sure. :sneaks:

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 6:07pm

There is a storm/retention pond just beyond the gutters and greenery...hmmm...

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 6:08pm

All snakes are named deceased if they cross my path.

Can you come up here and make it so? All the neighborhood kids ran screaming from it. TIA. :kimblair:

Grey Ghost

08-19-2014, 6:10pm

Looks poisonous to me. But I thought they had blunt tails?

Blademaker

08-19-2014, 6:13pm

It appears to have the body style of an Asp.
Kill it.
Now.
From a distance...........

mrvette

08-19-2014, 6:13pm

Bird shot, .22lr at short range....or 12 ga.......

CASE CLOSED!!!!! ONE boom snake in sewer, you walk away quickly.....Gee, someone must have set off a firecracker.....:seasix:

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 6:15pm

Bird shot, .22lr at short range....or 12 ga.......

CASE CLOSED!!!!! ONE boom snake in sewer, you walk away quickly.....Gee, someone must have set off a firecracker.....:seasix:

Can't...in a HOA here...

A resident saw it (took the pic) called Animal Control and they wouldn't come get it.

Any other suggestions?

Blademaker

08-19-2014, 6:18pm

Can't...in a HOA here...

A resident saw it (took the pic) called Animal Control and they wouldn't come get it.

Any other suggestions?

Shoot it anyway?

Duh...........

Who's gonna argue with a crazy scared lady holding a gun?

This ain't Ferguson.........:leaving:

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 6:20pm

Maybe I should lob a Molotov cocktail at it...

:Jeff '79: :leaving:

Kerrmudgeon

08-19-2014, 6:30pm

I use a landscaper's rake and come down hard on them from above. Either they get caught in between the tines or are skewered. Then take a spade shovel and.....off with it's head! :ack:

LATB

08-19-2014, 6:34pm

"Chute it Lizbeth...chute it"

Fasglas

08-19-2014, 6:40pm

What I see in the pic, makes me suspect a Moccasin. Need better focus on the head.

here's some clues, though:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKYGkUoHMWA6X5Cs_58Cr8Wsh1_aSO9FZNLgIGOsB4mpwJu7o4

Real Moccasin:

http://www.chrisdixonstudios.com/cdsgallery/reptiles/snakes/19_2_Moccasin_Cottonmouth_Snake.jpg

SnikPlosskin

08-19-2014, 6:58pm

Can someone tell me what kind of snake this is? Thanks.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/lilredcorvette94/Miscellaneous%20Animals/snake_zps877d18e8.jpg

Can't say. Too far away. Can you get a closer shot? Need to see head shape and scale patterns.

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 7:05pm

Can't say. Too far away. Can you get a closer shot? Need to see head shape and scale patterns.

I didn't take the original pic...got it in an email. Not sure if I can find it...and not sure I want to. :Jeff '79:

A resident saw it (took the pic) called Animal Control and they wouldn't come get it.

VITE1

08-19-2014, 7:32pm

Shoot it anyway?

Duh...........

Who's gonna argue with a crazy scared lady holding a gun?

This ain't Ferguson.........:leaving:

If you have a CO2 fire extinguisher just spray it. They freeze up pretty quick.

Then chop them up with s shovel. Or better yet make chili out of it.

OddBall

08-19-2014, 7:36pm

Can't say. Too far away. Can you get a closer shot? Need to see head shape and scale patterns.

:iagree: Toss-up between a rat snake and a moccasin.

Barn Babe

08-19-2014, 7:58pm

Blademaker

08-19-2014, 8:24pm

Copper headed water rattler.........meanest snake evar.......

OddBall

08-19-2014, 8:39pm

Copper headed water rattler.........meanest snake evar.......

:funnier:

LilRedCorvette

08-19-2014, 9:02pm

:funniest:

8Up

08-19-2014, 9:10pm

Never seen a moccasin that fat I think it's a water snake.

Sea Six

08-20-2014, 4:06am

Looks like a moccasin to me. I've killt several on my property lately.

They will be fat immediately after a meal.

stingraymyway

08-20-2014, 6:09am

It'd be dead if I came across it.:issues:

stingraymyway

08-20-2014, 6:12am

Maybe I should lob a Molotov cocktail at it...

:Jeff '79: :leaving:

Kill it with FIRE.......now we're talking'.

VatorMan

08-20-2014, 6:45am

Never seen a moccasin that fat I think it's a water snake.

I've seen them bigger than that. That is a Cottonmouth. :yesnod:

Sneaks

08-20-2014, 7:20am

I've seen them bigger than that. That is a Cottonmouth. :yesnod:

MUCH bigger.

Stangkiller

08-20-2014, 8:39am

Never seen a moccasin that fat I think it's a water snake.

I thought one of the identifying descriptions of a moccasin is a bit shorter/thicker than other snakes.

I can tell one thing for certain in this picture. It should be a dead snake.

The picture makes me suspect moccasin, however a better look at the head would certainly help better identify it.

We've been having moccasins show up at the range lately, I ran one over with my truck a few weeks back, a buddy shot two while he was trying to unlock the gate.

Fastguy

08-20-2014, 8:39am

Why not leave it alone?

Stangkiller

08-20-2014, 8:44am

Why not leave it alone?

Pets and Kids in the neighborhood.

Barn Babe

08-20-2014, 8:47am

Why not leave it alone?

I'm in your camp. However, if it's someplace where it can get to a family member or pei, it does need to be dealt with. I had a similar experience where an adult diamond back was heading across the road into my pasture. My husband helped me scoot it into a 30 gallon trash can. I used a bungie cord to strap the lid on, put the can in the back of my suburban and seatbelted it in. I drove it out to a remote area, took the lid off the can and threw it one way and ran 10 yards the opposite way. It was crazy and stupid, I know, but I just couldn't bring myself to kill it. :leaving:

VatorMan

08-20-2014, 9:00am

Why not leave it alone?

Cottonmouths are the most vicious, territorial, and smelly snakes I know. They don't run away like your typical water snake or black racer.

Cybercowboy

08-20-2014, 9:03am

There are two types of snakes I kill.

1. Obvious poisonous snakes, wherever I find them.

2. Any snake that I find in my patio pond, because I don't GAF if it's poisonous, I don't want it in there eating my fish or rubbing up against my arm when I reach down to clean the filter.

I'f I'm not sure it's poisonous, and it seems to want to get away from me, I leave it be. It's probably just a bull snake or some other beneficial specie.

That picture does look like a moccasin or cottonmouth. Last one I killed was when I was in a canoe and it swam over to us. I gave it a nice chop to the head with my aluminum paddle. :D

HellCat

08-20-2014, 10:27am

Cottonmouths are the most vicious, territorial, and smelly snakes I know. They don't run away like your typical water snake or black racer.

and they will come after you.

ZipZap

08-20-2014, 12:19pm

That actually looks like a Copperhead. Pretty common in VA.

VatorMan

08-20-2014, 12:28pm

Can someone tell me what kind of snake this is? Thanks.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/lilredcorvette94/Miscellaneous%20Animals/snake_zps877d18e8.jpg

A bit dark, bit ZipZap might be right.

http://www.copperhead-snake.com/aba.jpg

OddBall

08-20-2014, 10:20pm

A bit dark, bit ZipZap might be right.

http://www.copperhead-snake.com/aba.jpg

That's a Copperhead.

Edit: oops, you were referring to zip zaps post.