It is a garter snake just like these from earlier in the week.
That is what I was thinking also.
We saw one on the property last week and my daughter spent and hour trying to find it so she could catch it, hold it, and pet it! Not all little girls scream when they see one, just the full grown man type little girls...LOL
Hahaha. Just for the record, I don't scream when I see one. But typically seeing one induces a jump back reaction...similar to what some people do when they see a mouse
I am inclined to agree with your buddy. Around home if I see a snake it quickly loses it's head when I get my shovel or garden hoe. In the woods they usually get a shot of .357 or whatever caliber I may have that day. I don't even like seeing them behind glass
Intuitively, I know that most of them are harmless. At a gut level, I can't stand to be around them.
People wonder why their house or area is loaded with rats and mice. rats and mice destroy anything and everything included people. rats and mice pee and poo uncontrollably. so they leave their unseen Disease marker on everything including food.
snakes are the number consumer of rats and mice. they crawl into the burrows and eat them.
If you find a snake in your house. that means there smell rats and mice in there.
90% of poisonous snakes have a triangle head or like they say in Boy Scouts arrow head, and you do not want to be hit by an arrow.
The only poisonous snake that looks like an nonpoisonous snake is a corral snake.
it is like a stop light, when the light changes from yellow to red, YOU STOP.
When the snake's color goes from yellow to red, STOP and do not touch.
I don't like them at all either. This past week I was giving away a huge engine hoist that had been sitting outside for a while. I towed it up to the front of the house. Then took it off the hitch. As I set it down a short little copperhead came out from the hitch area. I didn't like that at all. I'm almost afraid to go hike anymore cause of all the reports of copperheads and rattlesnakes.
Jason
MOST people who claim to have seen a copperhead will always say it was "short and little", or a "baby". What they are USUALLY seeing is a young black snake which looks a little like a copperhead, or just a garter snake.
100% right about how beneficial snakes are for vermin control, something that also applies with members of the weasel family, which includes (here in IN) weasels, mink, and otters, and (sadly very rarely) badgers.
Even if it's a venomous snake, I leave them alone unless absolutely necessarily.
We don't have Coral snakes anywhere in the state, but to clarify what you were talking about, they can be confused with the harmless and beneficial Kingsnake.
The old saying for instantly differentiating between the venomous (but still not very dangerous due to being rather shy and having short and weak fangs) Coral snake snake from the non-venomous Kingsnake goes like this: Red touch fellow, kill a fellow. Red touch black, good for Jack.
Kingsnake (red touch black) -
Coral snake (red touch yellow) -
Oh, I am clear on the positive impact they have and how to identity venomous from non venomous and I have never let them keep me from enjoying the outdoors. And I will usually just steer clear but sometimes they get too close for comfortPeople wonder why their house or area is loaded with rats and mice. rats and mice destroy anything and everything included people. rats and mice pee and poo uncontrollably. so they leave their unseen Disease marker on everything including food.
snakes are the number consumer of rats and mice. they crawl into the burrows and eat them.
If you find a snake in your house. that means there smell rats and mice in there.
90% of poisonous snakes have a triangle head or like they say in Boy Scouts arrow head, and you do not want to be hit by an arrow.
The only poisonous snake that looks like an nonpoisonous snake is a corral snake.
it is like a stop light, when the light changes from yellow to red, YOU STOP.
When the snake's color goes from yellow to red, STOP and do not touch.
Oh, I am clear on the positive impact they have and how to identity venomous from non venomous and I have never let them keep me from enjoying the outdoors. And I will usually just steer clear but sometimes they get too close for comfort
I don't recall saying it quite like that. Yes around the house they get decapitated unless they get away before I get back with a shovel or garden hoe. And in the woods/ around lakes, I have seen more at a bit of a distance or in the water that I never messed with. When they are too close for comfort for me, wife, kids or my hunting dog then yes they get blasted. Oh and for the record sometimes just steering clear is out of necessity (maybe due to location or other reasons)I thought you said that you decapitate any that you see around the house and blast any that you see in the woods.
Surely, not all of them are getting so close as to be deemed imminent threats.
I don't recall saying it quite like that. Yes around the house they get decapitated unless they get away before I get back with a shovel or garden hoe. And in the woods/ around lakes, I have seen more at a bit of a distance or in the water that I never messed with. When they are too close for comfort for me, wife, kids or my hunting dog then yes they get blasted. Oh and for the record sometimes just steering clear is out of necessity (maybe due to location or other reasons)