Posted on 08/21/2016 12:31:16 AM PDT by EinNYC
Authorities in Maine have warned the public about snakes after a large snake skin was found near the Presumpscot River on Saturday.
Westbrook police said they have been searching for a 10-foot snake since June after a woman reported seeing it near a playground. There have been several other sightings of the reptile, dubbed “Wessie,” since, according to WMTW-TV.
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If the cops find pelosi without her latex skin I hope they get her photo before she’s shipped back to Area 51.
My dog got bit by a copperhead this summer right on the nose. Of course I panicked and rushed him to the vet. He was definitely a SICK puppy! for most of the day. I found out that the venom from a copperhead doesn’t generally kill a dog but the salmonella from a bite can. That is also true for a dog even if they get bit by a black snake. The vet said a snakes mouth is loaded with salmonella. Best to get them some antibiotics to be on the safe side.
That’s quite a story. Here in west Michigan we have many kinds of snakes. When we had dairy goats and would pile up the wasted straw from their bedding, the vey large garter snakes around here sunned themselves and also dug into the pile. I imagine as it composted it provided extra warmth.
We have rattlesnakes around here that get pretty big. Fang
is 6’4” tall and we have a photo of him holding one out
to his side (that he had killed). It’s as long as Fang is
tall. He has killed many rattlesnakes & copperheads in the
30 yrs. we have lived out here. Rattlers will warn. Coppers
do not warn. (We don’t go out of our way to kill ANYTHING
any more.) We may have to one day for food; but so far have
not.
Re Post 18: “Give me a good squeeze, baby.”
New state song: “ Anaconda”
I’m no herpetologist, but I’m not all that far from Maine, and we have plenty of snakes. I doubt large tropical snakes can survive a New England winter, temperatures as cold as -10 below F are not uncommon at night.
Indeed, the cold can kill such a snake, but it may first drive it to find warm shelter (a house, a garage, a car engine compartment), putting it in direct contact with humans. It should be interesting if/when that occurs.
Oh, Maine has plenty of snakes.
No poisonous ones, though. Really.
In other words, naive and dopey, like a Liberal of any age.
:)
Ten foot long black snake? I think something like seven feet may be the limit unless you are thinking of a different snake than the ones I know.
They pulled it out and sent it over the the JEST facility school (Jungle Environmental Survival Training) where they taught escape and evasion courses, and one of my best friend's fathers worked there as a trainer (He was a medical officer) and he ended up with the skin. I didn't know anything about it at the time, so one day I was over at his house, and he brought out this big thing (there was nobody else home at the time) and he said "do you want to see something really cool?"
He stood in the main corridor of his house and threw it like he was bowling the thing that was wound like a firehose, which unrolled that entire snakeskin and it went all the way down the hallway!
It was the same snake as the one in the picture, I believe.
When I was stationed at Cecil Field in Florida, they caught a rattlesnake somewhere around the airfield, and the guy was standing in the bed of a pickup holding the snake by the head, and its tail was touching the ground. Being bitten by that snake would have been like being introduced to Vlad The Impaler and his twin brother!
Maine has all kinds of non poisonous snakes.
The state did not have boas or pythons until people brought them into the state as pets.
Caitlyn had the surgery?
I ran into a Massassauga rattler while playing golf down thee road from you (Albion).
Be careful in the tall grass. There rattle sounds just like the grass rubbing together in a breeze.
Maine has snakes but, to my knowledge, it is the only state that does not have poisonous snakes.
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