Snakes n Vettes
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Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Austin, Texas
That looks like a Bull Snake, or as it is also known...a Gopher snake, or the scientific term: 'Pituophis catenifer' family. You can tell them as they have a black band that runs across their heads from one eye to the next...actually very harmless, but they will bite. Copperheads that size are VERY rare, and the markings are all wrong...I've handled many Snakes over the years at the Sweetwater Rattlesnake roundup...99% of them will not attack without making an effort to escape 1st..the exception is a Water Mocassin, or a Cotton Mouth..those are agressive and will come up from behind and bite with no agression from your part to aggravate it. I hope you let it go as snakes are usually much more helpful than harmful...Bulls eat Rats and Vermin, thus they are often found around bldgs...
~Maverick
~Maverick
No way we were going to hurt the snake. I just wanted him out from under the car so that he wouldn't get run over when I backed out. He was under the drivers side at the rear tire, and his head was at a point where I would have come close to stepping on him had I not known he was there, when I was getting in the car. He definitely didn't want to leave. Perhaps it was the warmth under the car. I tried to pick him up about 2 inches behind his head, when he was in the "strike" position, but the stick slipped out because it was a bit flimsy, and he did strike at me
I'm no snake expert, but the head did not look triangular, so I didn't think he was poisonous.
BOTYNV1, when I was 5 I would have probably picked him up as well
, but unfortunately, I can hardly remember those days 
roscoe
