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What Kind of Snake Is This?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Lil Pun, Apr 6, 2009.

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  1. right1

    right1 Member

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    Are you sure? That doesn't look like a striped band to me. Just looks like the underside of the snake. I studied about two dozen pictures of Cottonmouths and it looks a lot like one to me. I've also killed quite a few of them at our place in Central Texas. This is a pic of a Cottonmouth http://www.wallpaper.net.au/wallpapers/animals/Cotton-Mouth-Snake-1-1024x768.jpg

    Either way, I don't like it :mad: .
     
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    "a magnificent specimen of pure Alabama blacksnake".
     
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    lol, that reminds of one of the posters here who admitted in another snake thread to googling "trouser snake" b/c he'd never seen one before.
     
  5. Lil Pun

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    I think that is the frog it is consuming. I think she has some more pics so if she does I will post them.
     
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    Thats what she said :D
     
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    The last snake I ran into was when I lived in Texas. We came home from shopping, and my little dog was barking wildly at some near our porch. I went over and looked and it was a Water Moccasin that was about 3 feet long, laying on its back, belly up like it was injured. My dog was about a foot from it, just barking wildly.

    In my opinion, the only good snake is a dead snake (my grandmother got bit by a copperhead about 5 years back while gardening...had to go to the ER and get it treated...), so I grabbed a baseball bat and beat the living **** out of that thing. I beat it until there was a hole of about 8 inches in the ground, and the thing was severed in half. I don't like snakes, especially since my grandma got bit, and I was nearly attacked in the middle of the woods by a water moccasin when I was about 8...

    Edit....my bet is that this is a Water Moccasin, Cottonmouth, whatever you want to call it. THe bands across the back are pretty common with these types of snakes, and their diet depends heavily upon frogs.

    Does your aunt live near water, Lil Pun?
     
    #47 Two Sandwiches, Apr 7, 2009
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