Look How Wrong You Can Be

[SneakySnakeLady]

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

They are similar but are in two completely different families

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[Seceded]

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

Awesome snakes!
I like this one what is he?

 

[Roberteaux]

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

Oh, that Eddie... look how wrong he can be! I am gonna have fun with that fool, come Friday!

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

Very nice photos! Thank you for posting them!

--R

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Awesome snakes!
I like this one what is he?

He's a big Jungle Carpet Python, his name's Taboo..he's just a big baby, real sweet, and very photogenic!

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Oh, that Eddie... look how wrong he can be! I am gonna have fun with that fool, come Friday!


Very nice photos! Thank you for posting them!

--R

Sorry to derail the thread...but you made it about my favorite subject, so I can't help myself

You wouldn't believe some of the things people believe about snakes...I'm really not surprised, which is why I originally said I hoped it was a joke, didn't mean to come off sounding rude...it's just 3 am and I'm a dog tired insomniac who really shouldn't go online in this state

 

[LPSGME]

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

By constrictor I was not thinking so much about constricting prey but more the ability to easily wrap around things - which also facilitates climbing etc. I always thought that was one way to tell if a snake is harmless i.e. if it easily wraps around and clings to a stick or rake, rather than hanging over it.

 

[Seceded]

Nice I like snakes but could never see myself owning one a guy i know has a burmese python that he uses for shows explaining different things about reptiles and he tried to get me to hold him and i couldn't bring myself to do it.

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

By constrictor I was not thinking so much about constricting prey but more the ability to easily wrap around things - which also facilitates climbing etc. I always thought that was one way to tell if a snake is harmless i.e. if it easily wraps around and clings to a stick or rake, rather than hanging over it.

I've never heard of that, but it doesn't sound like a very good identifying method to me...all snakes can climb well, some choose to be more terrestrial, but even those snakes DO climb at times, just as they are all very good swimmers. The easiest way of identifying venomous snakes in the USA is to look at head/body shape...most of the vipers in the US have thick bodies, short or at times can be fairly long if it's say, a timer rattler...with a thick arrow shaped head, and cat slit pupils...unless it's a coral snake, which would be the red/yellow jingle.

 

[Roberteaux]

Sorry to derail the thread...but you made it about my favorite subject, so I can't help myself

You wouldn't believe some of the things people believe about snakes...I'm really not surprised, which is why I originally said I hoped it was a joke, didn't mean to come off sounding rude...it's just 3 am and I'm a dog tired insomniac who really shouldn't go online in this state

You didn't derail the thread at all, you didn't come off as being rude, and your information was much appreciated! Also, thank you for really spicing the thread up as you did!

I think that I really would believe stupid things that people believe about snakes, too-- especially after this Eddie guy convinced me that a corn snake is a damned pygmy rattlesnake, and then taught me the whole color thing backwards!

Ever since that boy told me I had been walking around with a rattlesnake in my hand, I have refrained entirely from handling wild snakes of any type. My ex had a colombian red-tailed boa as a pet, and I am not afraid of snakes in general, but really, all I know for sure is what a colombian red-tailed boa looks like! I have seen plenty of snakes over the years, but I wouldn't ever bother one without some sort of need.

Thanks again! Your input was appreciated!

--R

 

[Seceded]

One more question seeing as we're on a role what's the difference between a python and a Boa

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

Nice I like snakes but could never see myself owning one a guy i know has a burmese python that he uses for shows explaining different things about reptiles and he tried to get me to hold him and i couldn't bring myself to do it.

They aren't for everyone...I don't expect everyone to want to cuddle with them the way I do...I just enjoy teaching about them and sharing mine when I can, I used to go to a lot of schools with mine and give talks about the facts about them, how to stay safe outside and at the same time respect the animals, not to grow up thinking ''omg it's a snake, kill it on site'' That really is my main goal..I don't care if people want them as pets..I just want them to let them go about their lives like every other one of god's creatures who serve a purpose here.

I just was born absolutely adoring reptiles and they were all I wanted my entire life...I didn't make friends easy being the crazy reptile girl, but I have a family who accepts it and a boyfriend who deals with me, so I'm good I just love them

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

One more question seeing as we're on a role what's the difference between a python and a Boa

Well, there are several nit picky details, but the biggest one is that pythons lay eggs and incubate them by nesting on them, while boas incubate their eggs internally and appear to give ''live birth'' because of it.

Pythons are typically found in the old world, while boas are typically new world species.

 

[SneakySnakeLady]

You didn't derail the thread at all, you didn't come off as being rude, and your information was much appreciated! Also, thank you for really spicing the thread up as you did!

I think that I really would believe stupid things that people believe about snakes, too-- especially after this Eddie guy convinced me that a corn snake is a damned pygmy rattlesnake, and then taught me the whole color thing backwards!

Ever since that boy told me I had been walking around with a rattlesnake in my hand, I have refrained entirely from handling wild snakes of any type. My ex had a colombian red-tailed boa as a pet, and I am not afraid of them, but really, all I know for sure is what a colombian red-tailed boa looks like! I have seen plenty of snakes over the years, but I wouldn't ever bother one without some sort of need.

Thanks again! Your input was appreciated!


--R

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[Joeydego]

this thread makes me want cowboy boots.

 

[b-squared]

Found this pic of an orange pygmy rattler:

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

Rob you are a GREAT man. I just re-read your plane tale. Now you are "helping" snakes. this world needs MORE people like you. That little snake is LOVELY. The "averasge" Clown would Kill it. Is a snakes life worth less than a Humans? I say NO! We delude ourselves into thinking we are Gods' gift. WRONG! We destroy the world. The other day the wife and I were in the pool. A Dragonfly was in the water. This FAT COW RUSSIAN woman wanted to kill it. My wife got it out of the pool and he "escaped". Kill Kill Kill is all people ever think. Save us Robert and SpiritHawk.

 

[Fracture]

Black Racer? Are the interior of their mouths blue?
I had a common corn snake, raise him from 16" to just under 4'.
When I relocated he was large enough to consume your average $5 store bought white rat.

 

[WMB]

A bit of confessional poetry: I'm just, like, a MAJOR vagina when it comes to snakes...some combination of those lifeless eyes and that legless economy of design...I don't know. Shivers. I recoil, even at pictures of them. I once walked into a groggy clot of rattlers one fine, sun-shiny October morning in Wyoming. I experienced a near complete psychotic break, gave out a little scream and scrabbled back down the butte in a dusty blur of feet and elbows.

In short, R., SSL, just can't believe you--or anyone else--would ever pick up a snake. Freaky.

 

[Eric Smith]

Well, I am by no means a snake expert. However, this is the same snake as I originally picked up and was told was a pygmy rattler... also, the color is the same as described elsewhere, he has the head of a pit viper and not that of a python... and whether you can see it well or not, he had a translucent little rattle on his itty-bitty tail. So yes, I am sure that he's a pygmy rattlersnake of the type that proliferate in Florida.

--R

Well then don't pick him up again.

 

[Eric Smith]

Well, read the rest of the thread and am glad that it turned out to be harmless. Not sure why I didn't recognize that it was a corn snake since we have them here in Indiana. I knew that it wasn't a rattle snake though by the shape of the head but would concede that the pic might not show everything. Another way to tell is the belly scales are in a straight line and not in the v pattern and also the pupils, which the original photo didn't show either, on a non-venemous snake are round while the venemous are diamond shaped. You would be surprised the things that you pick up when you grew up as the kid of a game warden.