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2 posted on
05/09/2009 5:28:35 PM PDT by
humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: humblegunner
Looks like a moccasin to me.
To: humblegunner
11 posted on
05/09/2009 5:32:34 PM PDT by
databoss
(Keep The Change....)
To: humblegunner
Looks like it gave the shovel as good as it got!
22 posted on
05/09/2009 5:36:56 PM PDT by
Eaker
(The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
To: humblegunner
Barring the possibility that someone has brought in a snake from some other country and released it that IS a cottonmouth water moccasin. It has the triangle head of a pit viper and I don’t know of another American pit viper that might be that color. I have seen many cottonmouths and the color of that snake is not out of the range of variations for one. Some are lighter and show patterning but some are almost black with no visible pattern. Copperheads also vary a lot but I don’t think that is in the copperhead range.
79 posted on
05/09/2009 6:11:04 PM PDT by
RipSawyer
(Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
To: humblegunner
Looks like a King Snake to me. Too bad you killed it. They’re very beneficial animals. They eat mice and rats and such.
83 posted on
05/09/2009 6:11:26 PM PDT by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: humblegunner
I was wrong on the name, its the Texas indigo snake. Endangered and feeds on rattle snakes and other snakes.
To: humblegunner
It's a water moccasin/ cottonmouth, no doubt.
The black body and white marking on the side and underneath the head.
Native to the south including Houston.
106 posted on
05/09/2009 6:25:59 PM PDT by
Tolkien
(Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
To: humblegunner; Eaker
That was a water moccasin. We used to see them quite often at DCS. We left the dead ones lying around as a warning to the live ones, haven’t seen on in years so the warnings must have worked.
118 posted on
05/09/2009 6:33:07 PM PDT by
TheMom
(I'm gonna be a grandma! He is due to arrive 09/09/09.)
To: humblegunner
Water Moc. Wonder how they taste BBQ’d?
127 posted on
05/09/2009 6:41:57 PM PDT by
CowboyJay
(Can a dead guy get a break around here?)
To: humblegunner
Damn...you got a ton of replies already, and I haven't scrolled 'em yet.
You're right, it's weird......head shaped like a rattler, thick fat body like a rattler, but coloration and tail of a black snake.
I'd say you got some sort of Obamanized morph pit viper in your yard. Good you offed it.
142 posted on
05/09/2009 6:57:15 PM PDT by
ErnBatavia
(Impeach now!)
To: humblegunner
It was a Black Racer, before some idiot smashed it with a shovel!
204 posted on
05/09/2009 9:10:32 PM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: humblegunner
Cotton mouth water moccasin
To: humblegunner
Look at the tail on a cottonmouth:
355 posted on
05/12/2009 8:44:12 AM PDT by
postoak
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