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I can never find the right snake picture
My neighbor and I just relocated a black snake with a yellow belly that
was making a home out of our garden storage box. It was pretty long, maybe 30", but not very thick. I'd be surpised if it was even and inch and a half. It wasn't heavy-bodied and didn't have a stubby tail, so I kind of ruled out a cottonmouth. I don't think it was big enough to eat my fish, but I still didn't want it in my pond. The only thing questionable about it is that its head was a bit triangular shaped, but I certainly didn't get a look at its pupils. The head shape has been completely unreliable for me as an indicator of the type of snake, since the only snake I've ever seen in our yard that didn't have a triangular head is a green grass snake. And yet, I know that most of those snakes were not poisonous. This was probably one of those black water snakes. I don't want him around, but I get so grossed out at the crunching involved in cutting their heads off. I will say that if he comes back, DN and I have agreed that all bets are off, and he will have to be dispatched. His kids will be staying here during the day once school is out, so he kind of cares whether we have snakes in our yard. Do you think he will come back, if he is a water snake? We only took him about 75 yards down the street and tossed him over the fence into a wooded vacant lot. Do you think he's gone? |
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