Visitor stopped by the shop today...

[PurdueSD]

Anyone care to id...

(dont worry, he has already been evicted)

 

[Ray-CA]

That looks like a corn snake. Keep it around, means no mice/rats or other vermin.

Ray

 

[gsport]

yikes........... i hate snakes

 

[sammerdog]

shovel

use a shovel

 

[krusty the clown]

That looks like a corn snake. Keep it around, means no mice/rats or other vermin.

Ray

yup.........

 

[Uncle Buck]

I' would lose the snake and find another way to dael with the mice and what not, but that is just me.

 

[Kevin54]

Corn snakes are harmless, but make you wet yourself a little when caught off guard. #2 on another way to get rid of mice

 

[PurdueSD]

Dont worry, he wont be back!!

I will get a cat to deal with the mice long before a snake and I tolerate each other.

 

[35mastr]

Wow,That was a big one. I bet he was looking for that cat.

 

[pattenp]

Are you sure it's corn snake. Looks like a copper head to me. It's fat for it's length and the head looks triangler in shape.

 

[Tarheelgarage]

Are you sure it's corn snake. Looks like a copper head to me. It's fat for it's length and the head looks triangler in shape.

Yeah, same thought.
If I saw that, I'd shot it head off with .22 ratshot.

 

[A_Pmech]

Aww! Cute snake!

Seriously, it's a snake, not the devil incarnate. They're fun to watch.

 

[PurdueSD]

Bingo!

Looks like a northern watersnake to me!!!

 

[tcianci]

I guess because I really **** at identifying different species of snakes, I'd have to kill it just to be sure it wasn't dangerous!

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

I guess because I really **** at identifying different species of snakes, I'd have to kill it just to be sure it wasn't dangerous!

Im with you! If it isnt all black its beheaded! We had a CopperHead in our yard 2 years ago it ended up as a Shovelhead! We do have a Black Snake that resides near the backside of my garage and its BIGGGGGG I mean like 6 to 8', I saw it squirming along the side of my garage one day and it scared the "S" out of me never seen one that long or that big around! HMMMM?? I think Ive heard that line before!!

 

[Stuey]

Yikes, that would sure ruin my day.

Were there two of them? In one of the photos there looks to be a second head. Or is that just the tail curled up?

 

[e-tek]

Looks like a RATTLER to me - but then they ALL look like RATTLERS to me!!

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhh get me out here!!!!

 

[Rte66Charlie]

Copperhead - I know, I've been nailed. It wasn't fun. We have one or two of them here in the Ozarks.

 

[Kevin54]

Ya sure it's not a corn snake?

 

[54FordPanel]

We have bull snakes in Colorado that look exactly like diamond back rattlers. And from experience, I can tell you that species identification is so much easier when you're looking at a dead one.

(Hmmmm....guess that was a bull snake after all........whoops....)

 

[Falcon67]

They are all copper mouth water rattlers - move along now.

 

[porschedude996TT]

Flip it over, it should have the manufacturer's tag on the underside.

Turn it into two snakes is my advice.

 

[e-tek]

QUOTE]

"Lessee....I thought I saw brother mickey go in here.....if I could just reach...."

 

[gc427]

Dont worry, he wont be back!!

I will get a cat to deal with the mice long before a snake and I tolerate each other.

X2

I was wondering how you evicted him?

Hopefully with a square head shovel.

 

[PurdueSD]

X2

I was wondering how you evicted him?

Hopefully with a square head shovel.

Ive actually got a picture of that...

 

[tcianci]

Yeah, The best thing for a snake is a case of "shovelitis"

 

[babzog]

Flip it over, it should have the manufacturer's tag on the underside.

Made in Taiwan.

 

[ovilla]

At the Brookfield Zoo (in Brookfield, IL) they have an awesome snake "House" building. Anyway, they have two really long Cobras behind a big glass display with a little sign on one corner that says "Don't knock on the glass. What would you do if the glass broke?". It's funny to just watch people put their hands on the glass, or even tap on it, until they finally read the little sticker. Then they all of a sudden back away. What's really funny though is that the "glass" itself is most likely bullet proof since it's like an inch thick.

Anyway, I'd hate to be under a car when one of those things surprises you. To me a dead snake is always the best type of snake to have.

 

[aus55]

one bad snake makes two good ones

 

[benjamming]

Seriously, it's a snake, not the devil incarnate.

Not in my book.

 

[undercat]

It's a copperhead. You can tell from how wide it is and the banding goes all the way to the bottom. A corn snake has "spots" that only cover the back and stop on it's sides. (see pictures already posted).
-Paul

 

[Flathead Red]

We do have a Black Snake that resides near the backside of my garage and its BIGGGGGG I mean like 6 to 8', I saw it squirming along the side of my garage one day and it scared the "S" out of me never seen one that long or that big around! HMMMM?? I think Ive heard that line before!!

Without seeing it, if it is that big and thick it's might be an eastern indigo snake. These are protected species and great varmit killers.

 

[foolishpride]

It's a copperhead. You can tell from how wide it is and the banding goes all the way to the bottom. A corn snake has "spots" that only cover the back and stop on it's sides. (see pictures already posted).
-Paul

It's definitely NOT a Copperhead. It's a Corn snake. Copperheads have hourglass shaped bands, and two tiny dots on top of the head. The body of a Copperhead gets much narrower behind the head, and is darker brown in color.

 

[JB740i]

Without seeing it, if it is that big and thick it's might be an eastern indigo snake. These are protected species and great varmit killers.

I try to avoid killing em. But if I saw one in a tree that big and looking at me it would meet my shotgun very quickly.

I told my wife not to run over one a little snake in the parking lot at work one day. Couple days later she was walking in and it ran across her foot. Wasn't happy with me at all.

 

[whitehedr]

Only one thing worse than a snake. Two snakes.


Traps and Decon work well for the mice.


RWW

 

[undercat]

It's definitely NOT a Copperhead. It's a Corn snake. Copperheads have hourglass shaped bands, and two tiny dots on top of the head. The body of a Copperhead gets much narrower behind the head, and is darker brown in color.

Well you might be right about the shape of the head and neck (hard to tell from the pictures). But it is definitily NOT a corn snake. A corn snake doesn't have full bands like that.

 

[Bigspook]

That is a Copperhead you could tell if he was not sheding but if you look at his head you can tell he is sheding and you can not see the two dots on his head

 

[knudsen]

We have bull snakes here in IN too. Cut their heads off and the ****** stub strikes at you for hours before it knows it's dead.

There's a good reason God made .22's easy to silence. Give that rascal a lead pill!

 

[hcs1947]

Come on, you all sound like a bunch of sissies! Snakes and other reptiles have a beneficial function in the ecosystem, keeping pests under control ( and no, snakes don't qualify as pests). There are more injuries from dropped tools in the shop every year than there are from snakebites. More injuries from deer/vehicle impacts than from snakebites. More injuries from pissed-off wives...

 

[Gabriel J]

Come on, you all sound like a bunch of sissies! Snakes and other reptiles have a beneficial function in the ecosystem, keeping pests under control ( and no, snakes don't qualify as pests). There are more injuries from dropped tools in the shop every year than there are from snakebites. More injuries from deer/vehicle impacts than from snakebites. More injuries from pissed-off wives...

I agree....Did it really need a shovel in the head? I guess next time a racoon comes in the yard I'll shoot it with a .50cal......Why just shoo it away.

BTW. It was a corn snake, harmless and now you better put down the d-con because it was quite healthy eating whatever was, and will be living in your garage.