My favorite snake
 

Corn Snake, aka red rat snake, is the best.

They're beautiful, useful and of the dozens I've caught, I've only been bitten twice and it was the by same snake.

They are very friendly snakes; most corn snakes let you pick them up like you were an old friend.
If I knew how to post a picture of a corn snake, I would
Maybe someone else will.
Beautiful and friendly and useful snake right here:

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I think I may have seen one in upstate NY when I was a little kid, I was moving logs around and one of them was hanging out near some plants by the logs. I ran away screaming :tongue_ma:

They're useful? For what? Balancing ecosystems or something? Good for gardens?

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Awesome picture!! Thanks, Baphomet Jones.

One cold winter, a long time ago when I was living in a ground floor shotgun apartment in the city, I found a corn snake had moved into my apartment and under my fridge for the warmth of the motor.
His tail would stick out onto the kitchen floor. It was the best looking thing in that apartment.

I only touched it once, to entertain someone; he pulled his tail all the way under the fridge, but the next night he was out there again.
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Almost forgot to tell you they're useful 'cause they eat rats...hence "red rat snake."
They're helpers if you store grain...hence "Corn snake."

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Very cool :D I'm not too freaked out by snakes, I just keep my distance. Its a mutual respect thing, I hope they keep their distance from me :tongue_ma:

In the spring/summer I'm going to start planting some veggies, I'll keep my eye out for corn snakes.

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I had a ball python for a pet, ended up giving him to my mom. She hated snakes until she got to know them. Now she thinks he is an excellent pet! Easy to take care of, and makes no noise.

(Picture from: http://www.chelydra.org/python.html not my snake)

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Corn snakes are beautiful!

I love snakes. I love reptiles! My husband is very afraid of snakes, however, and doesn't want them in the house. I do have a living room full of lizards, though.

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I dont care for snakes,never been afraid of em just dont care for em.....a roomate in my twentys had a 13ft boa that he fed rabbots too...it slept under his bed....it was a nice snake...i just dont like the smell of em or them appearing near me so silently.

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Had a rat snake for 5 years... GREAT PETS!

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How do they taste?

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Texas Rat Snake

http://www.kingsnake.com/stha/tx-rat-index.jpeg

**Note : the pupils are like humans instead of cats........most snakes with cat-like pupils are poisonous.
Also, poisonous snakes tend to have a 'triangular' shaped head - wider rear portion of the jaw accomodates the poison sacks.

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I’ve seen a black racer in N.Y. play possum for a while, till it decided to put on the jets and scat away at incredible speed.

Snakes are an interesting example of nature, but I would never have one as a pet.

Very interesting note about the snakes pupils, I’ve never heard that before.

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We just got a red tail boa...

What kind of lizards do you have?
We have a red tegu, she's really sweet. She sleeps with us at times...

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That is one rockin' cool lizard man ! .....how big is she ?
**could be a possible cousin of mine.....:bear_tongue:

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She's beautiful! I also have a red tegu. He's a rescue who came to me in unbelievably poor shape: starved nearly to death, with layers and layers of stuck shed, missing toes, and almost unable to walk because his feet were all tightly curled under. He needed lots and lots of TLC, but he's come through it all. The poor little guy is a real survivor. Now he's grown into a big boy with a handsome face and really ugly feet! Being the survivor he is, he has his own stash of freeze-dried turkey and fruit down in the basement with the SHTF supplies. :D

I currently also have a couple of Uromastyx Mali and four Chinese Leopard Geckos. I also had a black and white Chacoan morph tegu that died last winter. He'd had mysterious health problems for almost a year and had been seeing a good herp vet, but we were never able to determine what was going on with him (he died under his heat lamp, so we couldn't necropsy him).

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If I had to live with a 13-foot free-range boa constrictor in my home, I think I'd try to make it wear a cowbell...especially at night.:D

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My old Australian grandma says the only good snake is a dead snake there are few snakes that made it out of her chicken coop alive I can still remember
a 80 year old very frail lady beating a large "5 feet" brown into submission with her walking stick she told me it was the chicken that warned her.

I grew up a little more tolerant of them and realise how important they are
and will happily leave them alone or move them if I must rather than kill them.

carpet pythons were well known and left alone to catch rats.

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I used to keep snakes and other reptiles. Worked weekends at my brother's pet store, keeping them clean and feeding them. None of the other folks wanted to do it so I did.

Personally, I've had red tail boas, ball pythons, ret. python, emerald tree boa, and king snakes but my favorite of all time was my savanna monitor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_monitor I had mine for about 5 years and don't have any pictures. Died by burning himself on the water heater.

It is not a beginner reptile. I wouldn't recommend one to folks who don't already have a herp or two. Our cat is aging and I won't buy a reptile with him in the house. (I don't like having my herps delivered, dead, to my doorstep. ) Once he passes on, I do plan on purchasing a red tail boa for the kids and I. Red tail boas are very nice as pets IMO. They are personable and don't require a lot of upkeep. (and they don't stink like the monitor....) I'd really like another monitor but it isn't a kid pet. The red tail is much more kid friendly.

Then again, my stinky old cat may live for another 10 years. That wouldn't be bad either. :D

Blorp

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Oh,

And yes, rattlesnake does taste good. Big ones have a surprising amount of meat on them.

Very similar in taste to frog legs or chicken. Then again, I deep fried it so who would have guessed that huh?

Blorp

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Savs are great. I had one a number of years ago. (He died of cancer, which is supposed to be very rare in monitors, but it was confirmed by necropsy.) I also had a little ackie monitor for about 7 years. He died while I was out of town, and my hubby put him in the freezer, so he couldn't be necropsied. He'd seemed healthy and normal when I left, so I don't know what happened to him. If you like monitors (they're my favorites), ackies are wonderfully entertaining little lizards. They've got sharp little teeth, but they couldn't take off a finger. This is how he used to like to hang out.