| Author | Message | ||
     Got1nut |
Found this snake sneaking in my laundry room. I don't know what it is or how it got there but Im from central jersey and don't know anything about these slimy nasty disgusting things. I killed it with a cd case. I pressed the end of the case on its neck until it stopped moving. Wife is freaking out and wants me to call someone to inspect the house. I said its probably a harmless snake but anyhow, anyonme know what this is?  | ||
| Wyckedflesh |
Snakes are not slimy, they are generally dry f skin unless having just crawled out of a water source, then they are mearly wet, and still not slimy. Since I am not a herpatologist I can not safely identify that snake, but it might not be a bad idea to call a reputable extermination company and speak to them, or look up a reptile shop in the yellow pages and take the bagged up snake to them to identify. | ||
| Interceptor |
lol. | ||
| Doughnut |
Type of garter snake it looks like, harmless. | ||
| M1combat |
Looks like a fanged yellow diamondback... One of the most venomous and aggressive snakes there is. They are known to gather in warmer dry places (like piles of clothes) and they'll not hesitate to strike. They are indigenous to your area. Death usually occurs within minutes with anyone under 130lbs, but can take up to an hour for someone larger. You're lucky... | ||
| M1combat |
Just kidding... I have no idea  . | ||
| Got1nut |
 M1. I searched on garter snake, I killed a harmless creature...great. Im going to throw the dead snake at my wife when she comes home from the gym and is in the shower. | ||
| M1combat |
Looks like one of these to me... javascript:var w =window.open('http://www.enature.com/flashcard/show_flash_card.asp?recordNumber=AR0108','','height=410,width=340,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes') "Mostly Harmless" . | ||
| M1combat |
LOL ... Just put it in the shower so when she pulls back the curtain she screams . | ||
| Loki |
Bet he came in through a floor drain or wash basin. | ||
| Sleez |
garter snake, great pest control, never kill!!!! http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/snakes/garter.htm http://www.wmoem.org/Sar/njsnakedescriptions.htm (Message edited by sleez on April 11, 2005) | ||
| Rubberdown |
I had an infestation of copperheads in my house once. Dog got bitten twice and I tore the house apart. Freaking 12 gauge pump makes a hell of a mess inside. Later discovered multiple nests under a ground level deck adjacent to the house. | ||
| Lonexb |
that is your average "common" king snake. species: lampropeltis getula family: colubridae (colubrids) habitat: marshlands to dry forest and deserts feeding: reptiles,birds,and mammals distribution: north america main characteristics: the head is approximately the same diameter as the rest of the body.coloration varies from one locality to another, but it is usually black or dark brown with white or cream markings in a variety of patterns. from the book: The essential visual guide to the world of snakes. not to make you feel bad, but the snake was probably more scared of you than you were of it. it takes a lot to make a king snake act aggressive. lone xb (part time herpetologist) | ||
| Shotgun |
Wife called me at work a few years ago when we lived in Baton Rouge, "your dog is on point in the hallway with a 6 foot snake, and I am standing on a chair in the kitchen and not moving til you come home!!!!" Went home, good old pointer still had him on point. 9 iron tossed him into the outdoor pool and then over the fence to the neighbors. Found the cesspool crawling with the varmints. Copperheads or cottonmouths, I don't know the difference. Professional extermination. The only way to go. Wife was wanted every light in the bathroom on every time she lifted the lid. | ||
| Steveford |
That's a garter snake. With a few exceptions, snakes are generally very timid animals. Garter snakes are actually kind of nutty and tend to thrash around and dump out a smelly musky type of stuff when captured. For the man with one nut, if the snake in your area has a round pupil, it's harmless and should be picked up and placed outside. Sometime this year I need to pick up a female common boa constrictor - anybody on this board got one that needs a new home? | ||
| Leftcoastal |
Garter Snake . Tastes like chicken. AL | ||
| Buellny |
it's absolutely a garter snake....other than the red-belly brown snake, it's basically the most harmless snake in all of north america. I live in western ny on a farm house with 3 old wells. You should see those things climb out from winter hibernation in the spring. There's like 50 of them....takes all of the fun out of catching them as a kid. Here’s some trivia for ya: the difference between the garter snake on the west coast and the east coast is that the one on the west coast eats mainly slugs and the one on the east coast eats frogs. They won’t touch (switch to) each other’s kind of meal. | ||
| Doughnut |
I miss my "Monty". She was an albino burmese Python. Currently have a king snake named Flash. It really is amazing how much character snakes have. | ||
| Dsergison |
it's a garter/grass/garden snake generally, snakes with: triangular wide flat heads=poisonous with round sleek heads=not poisonous | ||
| Twowheeldream |
I know this is going to sound bad seeing as how a lot of you seem to be snake lovers, but.... anyone actually eaten snake? I really want to try it, but not sure where i would be able to get it... anyone know an off the wall restaraunt that has it on the menu? Ive heard its a delicacy in some places... and im really curious how it tastes, I'm thinking it must be good seeing as how snakes are almost all muscle...  | ||
| Blake |
Garter snake. Skin it and fry it up. Never waste a fresh kill. | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Twowheel, Had rattlesnake a few times...tastes like chicken! Had it at a restaurant/hotel in Dallas (forgot name), at Fort Hood, Texas during an Explorer Scout meet and at Hudson's on the Bend restaurant in Austin (lots of wild game on the menu). Probably also get Rattler in Sweetwater at the annual Rattlesnake Round-Up (though mostly they just milk 'em and let 'em go). I love snakes, dead or alive! Wife...that's another story! HBJ "A zest for living must include a willingness to die." --Robert A.HeinBuelly | ||
| Sportyeric |
Strange timing. Last week, a couple of my co-workers were unloading boxes from the "freight truck" onto my bus when a black serpent came slithering out from underneath the pile. Two of them were shrieking like little girls to "get a shovel and cut its head off". Others were saying to just set it loose in the rose garden next door. I thought that it might not be good to be the person who introduced some exotic snake species to Vancouver Island, nor do I like to kill things, in general (except mosquitos and annoying house flies). It was most likely an escapee from someone's personal goods being shipped or, more likely, from a pet-shop's shipment. So I caught it, threw it in a bucket, showed it to all the girls in the ticket office, then took it home, with the intention of identifying it and either letting it loose or giving it to the pet shop. Turned out my kids thought it was cool, the Missus didn't object, the pet-shop tentaively identified it as a Black Mexican Kingsnake "So is it poisonous?" "Not if its a kingsnake." "Are you confident in that identification?" "No." Fairly sure?" "No." So its now in my son's bedroom. I returned to work the next day and told the main sissy that it ws good we were cautious as it was a Black Mamba and you'd be dead in thirty minutes if under a hundred pounds or suffering from arthritis (which he is.) I milked it for half an hour before my poker face failed but, man, he was crapping himself. So we've named it Beatrice Kiddo. That's Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill. Code named Black Mamba. And if you ever have a plague of copperheads or rattlesnakes, just bring in a few of these babies. That's why they're called king snakes, 'cause they eat rattlers for dinner. And aren't slimy. Feel like a silken cord. And I've told my daughter that we can now get a couple of female guinea pigs to keep her two males company. Ah, the circle of life. | ||
| Twowheeldream |
seems like TX is the place to eat snake!! Sporty, then you can feed the baby guinea pigs to the snake  now thats the circle of life | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Hey, all them exotic weird things taste like chicken; Frogs legs, ostrich, snake, etc etc The question I always ask myself is who tried it first? why? & how'd he/she cook it?  | ||
| Phatkidwit1eye |
Poor lil guy...My Mom kills a bunch of them during the summer out in the garden. I try to tell her they are helpful but when she has a shovel and looks ready to go to war I'm not going to argue with her. I try to catch as many as I can and put them in another yard. We used to have a cat that would catch and kill them and would proudly try to show my mom his kill. Poor cat never did figure out why she went screaming into the other room. | ||
| Taxman |
one of my fathers friends is in a small group that eats animals. they've tried snake, racoon, turtle, crow, and i'm sure a few others. http://mtd.com/tasty/ | ||
| Bomber |
I'm guessin there's a bunch a snake-eaters on the board -- the couple of times we cooked em up and chowed down, they tasted like hot sauce ;-} | ||
| Chainsaw |
Good rule of thumb for snakes found in North America: Round eyes= non-poisonous Oval "cat" eyes = poisonous | ||
| Nedwreck |
Someone brought us a funeral tent to repair this morning. There was a 9" garter snake inside. It's out in the woods, safe and sound. Bob |
