»Snakes I Have Caught«
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I grew up in Florida and catching snakes was basically my reason for getting out of bed in the morning. It was like fishing for me, a hobby, and I was no Crocodile Hunter but I did all right. I never catch them by the tail like he does, I grab the head. Here are the snakes I have caught and their stories... Red Rat Snake (a few times) Grey Rat Snake (constantly including one a few weeks ago) Yellow Rat Snake (once and my teacher yelled at me so I had to let it go) Eastern Garter Snake (constantly and once even up in Yellowstone National Park, only I guess that was a Western Garter Snake!) Ribbon Snake (similar to a garter snake but longer and skinnnier) Rough Earth Snake (very small) Eastern Ringneck Snake (small but extremely beautiful underneath) Banded Water Snake (looks like a cottonmouth and bites like a bitch!) Black Racer(very fast, black, and skinny, and they also really bite) Coachwhip(even faster, and they look like a braided bullwhip; I think it was sick or something or else I never would have caught it) Scarlet Kingsnake (once and it was the prettiest snake ever, looked just like a coral snake but the red in its stripes was touching the black) and. finally, the big daddy of the pine forests, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Twice, once behind my house and once in the Apalachicola National forest, they are beautiful too) Has anyone else caught a snake? What species? posted by holy_of_holies |
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| in-my-opinion.orgTechnology, Computers, Science, InternetAstonishing pictures: Nature / Cosmos / AnimalsSnakes I Have Caught |
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 Several But only you'r average Garden snakes. Canada is not a real snake country. Well unless you live in Alberta. posted by Kupov |
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What about this?  You need to go to Narcisse, Manitoba! posted by holy_of_holies |
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 just the other week my parents cat was bitten by either a water moccasin (sp?) or a copper head...had to rush it to the vet at 10:00pm to save it. i have never caught any snakes, but i have seen quite a few...as a matter of fact, right outside of my front door, not but maybe 10 feet away is a skin that one shed...i have no idea how to tell what species it is or anything like that though. posted by allone |
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allone: just the other week my parents cat was bitten by either a water moccasin (sp?) or a copper head...had to rush it to the vet at 10:00pm to save it. They probably gave it a shot of antivenin, right? Do you know how they make that stuff? They take a horse and inject it with a little bit of venom from a snake...then they let it recover and generate antibodies that break down the venom...then they give it a slightly higher dose...then let it recover etc. Pretty soon the horse is immune to the venom from whatever species of snake they took it from. So they take a lot of blood from the horse and separate out the antibodies and put them in a serum, which is probably what your parents' cat got. posted by holy_of_holies |
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 never caught one. if i did, i would have to let go of it and throw it away because my dad would freeaakk. he's a wimp when it comes to snakes. posted by sangu |
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I love snakes all types of reptiles and amphibeabs are really cool. 
posted by Kupov |
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 I used to live in a national park, and Australia has all sorts of poisonous snakes so I always let my dad catch them instead. It was cool, he did it real Steve Irwin like. Because we lived in a national park and my dads not a bastard, he'd rap it up in a sack and drive out into the forest and let it go, what most people do is just shoot the poor snakes. So I've grown up thinking pythons were pretty cool, Green Tree Snakes are cool, and Diamond Head Pythons are kinda cool. We have a lot of carpet snakes in Australia. posted by hungarian kid |
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 holy_of_holies: Here are the snakes I have caught and their stories... Any pics? posted by f4g |
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f4g: holy_of_holies: Here are the snakes I have caught and their stories... Any pics? Yeah but they're not digital and I don't have a scanner. Sorry. If you google those common names I listed, you'll get pictures of what they look like. posted by holy_of_holies |
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 holy_of_holies: If you google those common names I listed, you'll get pictures of what they look like. Yeah, but I would like to see YOU with your caught snakes posted by knn |
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knn: holy_of_holies: If you google those common names I listed, you'll get pictures of what they look like. Yeah, but I would like to see YOU with your caught snakes Usually, I'm by myself hiking or whatever when I catch them, so that would be hard. The only way to really look for snakes is to drive around on country roads at night after a light rain, when the snakes are out soaking up the heat on the blacktop. I imagine in the old days of Florida you could just go look for them, but now the populations are so reduced that they are hard to find. I always say that when the West was settled they lost the buffalo and wolves, but when Florida was settled, we lost our snakes. Seriously, most of Florida is so overdeveloped now that there are some people who live basically in the Everglades who have never seen a snake in the wild. Too many retirees, etc. When my mother moved down here in the fifties, her brothers used to raise alligators in the bathtub and stuff like that. We actually even have a smaller species of crocodile, but that's mostly in South Florida. In Miami in my father's uncle's yard, I once caught a giant Cuban anole. He was like, "That there's poisonous and it came over with the Cubans." But there are no poisonous lizards here, only poisonous snakes. Gotta go, going for a hike, I'll bring the digital KNN. posted by holy_of_holies |
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I didn't catch any yesterday - I was looking , you know - but we passed by a cave called Gopher Hole. Some pics here: in-my-opinion.org… in-my-opinion.org… posted by holy_of_holies |
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 my dilemmna is that i really like snakes...well, technically, ive only seen one in my life when i was like...7 and it was nice to me  so ive always liked them ever since...if i saw one now, i don't think i would be scared of it...i kind of want one as a pet for my class when i get my own...although that seems kind of cruel to keep one as a pet, not only that but i know you would have to feed it dead (or live) mice and insects and i know i could never bring myself to do that...so that's my only problem
posted by gkiss |
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Some like them, some don't. Also, snakes have trouble keeping their body temperatures up because they are so long and skinny, so that might be a problem in Canada. I would get a turtle. Kids love turtles. And they're easier to feed: fruit, vegetables, etc. There are a lot of turtles that live up north...the Wood Turtle is my favorite. We don't have them in the wild down here. There's an anecdote that says Wood Turtles can climb chain link fences! They're supposed to live a long time, so chances are it won't die on you if you treat it right. [CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS PICTURE] posted by holy_of_holies |
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