"Kurt" wrote in message
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"Gail Futoran" wrote:

"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message
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I am not particularly afraid of snakes, but I'm not an extreme
snake
lover either, and I don't keep any snakey pets. Sure, I know
some
of
them can hurt you, but by far most of them are quite harmless. I
can
positively identify the relatively few venomous snakes that live
in
this part of northern Florida. Anyway, this wasn't one of them.
It
was 3-4 ft long, and it was in the water. About the only thing
that
was dangerous would be a cottonmouth, and it was too sleek for
that.
A
cottonmouth big enough to be that long would be rather fat also.
Besides, as I got closer the head was all wrong and the snake was
uniformly black except for it's white chin and throat and brown
lips
which made it most likely a southern black racer, but not being
any
sort of snake expert, this is only a guess. I stopped to watch
it,
but it seemed to want to play a game of who could stay still the
longest, and it won when I got bored and went inside. Later that
afternoon I was fussing around the pond again, and saw the snake
again. It had made it about a quarter of the way around the pond
(25-30 feet), but was still pretty intent on remaining mostly
motionless, a game I didn't find too exciting. This morning to
my
surprise it was still there, head above water by the edge of the
pond.
Now I'm not especially worried about snakes, and I don't have any
fish. There are some pretty big tadpoles, and some large
swimming
beetles I've seen, but it has got to be pretty slim pickings for
a
snake that size. The question is, if it hangs around, what do
y'all
suggest I name it?
--
Galen Hekhuis
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You could name it Kurt. (movie ref).


Oh thank you...

Kurt Russell, actor. Played the character
Snake in the 1981 movie "Escape from New
York" and the 1996 movie "Escape from
LA". Don't take my word for it, here are links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116225/

Russell might well have appeared in another
movie as Snake but those are the only two
I'm familiar with.

I do see snakes in my in-ground pond
occasionally, but they don't seem to bother
the goldfish, or at least not the larger ones.
I don't mind if they cull the fry.

Gail Futoran