Bet you thought they hibernate

[knot4reel]

Yikes. These were in my daughters back yard last week. She went when she discovered them. They were quickly dispatched. She said they moved in slow motion. El nino I guess. Discuss.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

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[Mr Evilwrench]

Yikes. These were in my daughters back yard last week. She went when she discovered them. They were quickly dispatched. She said they moved in slow motion. El nino I guess. Discuss.

Oh wow. Any of them noisy? Them's good eats. Oh, and your links are busted. Just close the /IMG] tags.

 

[knot4reel]

Too cold to hiss, I hear they taste like chicken.

 

[OkieGirl]

Holy Cow! Hibernation is the only reason I 'like' winter! No way they should be out this time of year. Ugh...hate snakes, HATE THEM!

 

[eric001]

Color me curious...what kinds of snakes are they? I don't know my snakes well enough to ID them just from the pics.

 

[Fargo]

Color me curious...what kinds of snakes are they? I don't know my snakes well enough to ID them just from the pics.

The close one appears to be one of the duller variations of the garter snake. Can't tell on the far one. I like them around as they keep the pests down.

 

[target64]

Color me curious...what kinds of snakes are they? I don't know my snakes well enough to ID them just from the pics.

They are what I call "good" snakes.

 

[eric001]

If they're not venomous, I tend to leave them alone or even help em out... if they have fangs, they tend not to live too horribly long if they're around me. Thankfully, it's been a very very long time since I even saw a venomous one around.

 

[nickf2005]

Looks like good target practice to me.

 

[bwframe]

Something ran them out of around that shed. Hard to know what. They were likely doing a lot of good pest removal.

Too bad naive folks think they have to "dispatch" snakes just for being snakes.

 

[knot4reel]

Something ran them out of around that shed. Hard to know what. They were likely doing a lot of good pest removal.

Too bad naive folks think they have to "dispatch" snakes just for being snakes.

First time I've been called naïve folks in like never.

 

[OkieGirl]

First time I've been called naïve folks in like never.

LOL...you beat me to it! I come from the plains and we shot what we don't want to get bit by. Just sayin'.

I've spent way too much time in my granddad's hay barn to think there really is anything called a 'good' snake [shudder].

 

[mom45]

We like snakes here. Very rarely do we get any venomous ones. We've had a couple of Massasaugas but they were small and didn't bother us.

 

[trucker777]

Could be vibration in the ground that brought them out. Tremors, seismic activity? Any other animals acting strange lately in the area?
The other day I did read that it was the anniversary of the Great New Madrid Earthquake of 1812...

 

[Gluemanz28]

There are only four kinds of snakes I don't like.
1) Big ones
2) Little ones
3) Live ones
4) Dead ones

when people say "That snake won't hurt you". I reply yea but it will make me hurt myself trying to get away from it.

 

[Tooms]

I'd much rather deal with snakes than a bunch of pests (voles/mice). Snakes without fangs that is.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

The close one appears to be one of the duller variations of the garter snake. Can't tell on the far one. I like them around as they keep the pests down.

I would have guessed a corn snake. I don't see any stripes like a garter snake would have.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Something ran them out of around that shed. Hard to know what. They were likely doing a lot of good pest removal.

Too bad naive folks think they have to "dispatch" snakes just for being snakes.

I might use a few different words.

 

[tmschuller]

YUP too bad they probably were not hurting anything... I have had this chat with my mom numerous times. I call her Molly Hatchet she has a hoe that she turns snakes into bite size pieces.