The American Beagler Forum

This fella is on time like clock work every day. He's always laying there behind my dog food barrels when we feed. My 6 year old Daughter ran up on him the other day in the lot when we turned some pups loose. She said Daddy come here I found our snake lets catch it Stupid me thought I would pick him up by his tail, but he let me know real quick that was'nt gonna happen. After he missed my face by about 3 inches, which my little tomboy thought was funny I had to check my drawers and fix a drink I guess he figured he had'nt bothered us and we should'nt bother him. I guess he got over it because he has'nt missed a day yet. The picture of hi in the grass was the day I had my stupid attack and the pictures of him laying on the wood in the back of the shed was today. He's at least 5 1/2 ft maybe 6ft

Is that a cottonmouth ??

I’ve always had a fascination over snakes. Many years ago I had an 8’ to 9’ Burmese Python for a pet. But that dud looks poisonous. Is it a cottonmouth? I don’t see any rattles, and it looks a little dark for it to be a rattler. Its eyes look hazy like it might be getting ready to molt (soon shed it skin).

It's an old rat snake or as the old timers call it Cow Sucker. If it was a cotton mouth it would be dead, dead, dead. If it was any kind of poisonous snake it would be dead

Yeah I was thinkin rat snake to. Cottonmouths are usually alot healthier than that.

Up here in this part of Indiana where I live we don’t have any poisonous snakes. So I haven’t seen that many poisonous snakes in the wild, and for that reason I’m not that good about identifying all of them.

I feel its better to make a mistake and say it was a poisonous one, than to be sorry that it was.

Yeah, we got a lot of them rat snakes around this part of Indiana. Did your hand stink when you grabbed ahold of it? These around here seem to have a very foul odor when you get ahole of one. The only time I grab one is to snap it like a whip!

We let the king snakes and the rat snakes stay around the barn, but sometimes thay get in the kennels and the dogs has a field day with them. They keep the rat and insect down to a very few.

David N. Riley II - Bglenut

This is the same kind of snake that I got bit by a few weeks ago when I tried charming it........they sure can draw some blood and they dont let go until you rip them from you, lol. And for the stink....I sure noticed a stink but it wasnt from the snake,

Randy

Yeap, you done good by not killing it. Should keep the rats and other snakes away.

IF I RUN UPON SOMETHING LIKE THAT I GET MY GAUGES & REACH OUT & TOUCH SOMEONE.
MIKE

Hey Scott

Wife got a big laugh out of the checking the pants and getting a drink. I did the same thing a month ago when I killed a michigan rattle snake.

Take Care
Dan