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[LPSGME]

Anyone for Kettle Corn Snake?

 

[Roberteaux]

Whoever told you that was a pygmy rattler, find them and smack them

Corn snakes are beautiful and completely harmless, in fact they are some of the BEST beginner pet snakes out there.

THIS is a pygmy rattler...I'm sure you've seen photos of large rattlers...it's basically the same deal...just in a tiny package. You aren't going to have a frolic with a pygmy...it's going to bite you.

Thanks again, Sneaky Snake Lady!

As a matter of fact, that little feller I picked up so long ago was not a bad sort of snake at all. He actually seemed content to lace himself through my fingertips and just kind of hang out. I was at work and I couldn't dally with him for long and so I set him down. But then this other guy came and swore it was some dangerous viper-- and now I wonder if he wasn't just goofing on me.

If so, he was undoubtedly disappointed. To me a miss is as good as a mile, and I never do really freak out over what might have happened. I save that sort of sentiment for when things did happen and I have to rock my way out of it somehow!

We will find out Friday. That sucker still works where I do, and I am going to have some fun with him over this.

--R

 

[Seceded]

Anyone for Kettle Corn Snake?

I personally like King Cobras

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Anyone for Kettle Corn Snake?

I'll take it I like the lil guys ....surprisingly, I don't have any corn snakes right now.

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Thanks again, Sneaky Snake Lady!

As a matter of fact, that little feller I picked up so long ago was not a bad sort of snake at all. He actually seemed content to lace himself through my fingertips and just kind of hang out. I was at work and I couldn't dally with him for long and so I set him down. But then this other guy came and swore it was some dangerous viper-- and now I wonder if he wasn't just goofing on me.

If so, he was undoubtedly disappointed. To me a miss is as good as a mile, and I never do really freak out over what might have happened. I save that sort of sentiment for when things did happen and I have to rock my way out of it somehow!

We will find out Friday. That sucker still works where I do, and I am going to have some fun with him over this.

--R

Corns are typically very gentle snakes

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

I personally like King Cobras

I love these guys too...they are beautiful, but I'd never attempt to work with them, I would get killed easy. Years and Years ago I was at a school field trip to a zoo and they let me hold one that was a venomoid and had been used to people...they are very strong and impressive animals.

 

[Seceded]

Hey sneaky what's the most poisonous snake in the world i always heard it was the Black Mamba is that true?

 

[LPSGME]

EXACTLY. You don't typically accidentally touch a venomous snake without getting bitten, unless your either one lucky SOB or it's too cold outside for them to move.

Are any of the venomous snakes also constrictors?

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Hey sneaky what's the most poisonous snake in the world i always heard it was the Black Mamba is that true?

I don't think anyone has really come to that conclusion yet, based on everything I've ever read or saw on the subject...Some say the Inland Taipan, but others debate over a range of other super venomous snakes...based on venom potency, number of deaths each year etc etc etc.....So I like to say that the most venomous snake in the world is the one that just bit you.

 

[Seceded]

I don't think anyone has really come to that conclusion yet, based on everything I've ever read or saw on the subject...Some say the Inland Taipan, but others debate over a range of other super venomous snakes...based on venom potency, number of deaths each year etc etc etc.....So I like to say that the most venomous snake in the world is the one that just bit you.

Good answer haha just I don't get bit by anything poisonous but i dont think i have to many to worry about up here in Ma or do i?

 

[Roberteaux]

He's a really pretty snake. Here's shot of him as he was climbing around after I showed up with my camera. I thought the checkerboard pattern of his belly was very interesting!

--R

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Are any of the venomous snakes also constrictors?

Typically when you think 'constrictor' you think of boas and pythons...they aren't venomous...and there are many harmless snakes who constrict their prey..

Venomous snakes are built so that they don't 'need' to constrict their food, but that doesn't mean that they don't if they get super wound up over feeding...they just don't 'need' to and aren't really designed for it....as far as I know at least. I haven't studied venomous snakes as much because I know I can't handle them or ever keep them...so I don't know all of their habits

 

[Roberteaux]

Another question for Sneaky Snake Lady:

This same numbskull who taught me that a corn snake is a pygmy rattler also told me that the way to tell a king snake from a coral snake is by using the mnemonic black on yellow kills a fellow. Now that I've seen how much he knows about corn snakes, I am also wondering about this other particle of possibly-false information he left me with.

Not that I would play games with a king snake or a coral snake, mind you. In fact, I'm still not sure what was rolling around in my mind when I picked up that first corn snake...

--R

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Good answer haha just I don't get bit by anything poisonous but i dont think i have to many to worry about up here in Ma or do i?

According to this you have copperheads and timber rattlers to watch out for Snakes of Massachusetts

 

[Seceded]

Another question for Sneaky Snake Lady:

black on yellow kills a fellow.
--R

yes my grandfather always told me that too.

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

He's a really pretty snake. Here's shot of him as he was climbing around after I showed up with my camera. I thought the checkerboard pattern of his belly was very interesting!

--R

He is super pretty..that checkerboard belly is a given on corns, normal ones at least...they are being bred into so many morphs, I think some folks have bred the patterns right out of them.

Another question for Sneaky Snake Lady:

This same numbskull who taught me that a corn snake is a pygmy rattler also told me that the way to tell a king snake from a coral snake is by using the mnemonic black on yellow kills a fellow. Now that I've seen how much he knows about corn snakes, I am also wondering about this other particle of possibly-false information he left me with.

Not that I would play games with a king snake or a coral snake, mind you. In fact, I'm still not sure what was rolling around in my mind when I picked up that first corn snake...

--R

it's red on yellow kills a fellow...red on black is a friend to jack...or 'venom lack'

 

[Seceded]

According to this you have copperheads and timber rattlers to watch out for Snakes of Massachusetts

Great now im gonna be scared sh*tless next time i go into the woods.

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

 

[Seceded]

Cool I wonderif at one time they were the same breed and they bred the venom out of them? If that's possible.

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Since you've got me answering questions...time to spam my babies