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Do I kill it?

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at first I thought copperhead because the head was blurry, but your recent photo helps:

--round pupils
--rounded head

Pattern on the back looks like a variety of corn snake. Completely harmless and absolutely wonderful snake to have on your property (we had a pet corn snake that lived to be ~27 years old. Oldest corn snake that I have heard of).

But it looks like you injured it to the point where it is best to euthanize.

Never, ever, never kill common rat snakes.

But do kill:

Boas and Burmese pythons--non-native exotic "pets" introduced by meathead dumbshits that think it's cool to own a big snake; until it tries to eat them. Seriously; no one should own these things

Copperheads and venomous snakes in neighborhoods with a heavy child population. You will probably only ever see copperheads. Cottonmouths are very shy.
 
The default response of most of the people I know is to kill any snake they see. That does look a lot like a timber rattler to me, except the head doesn't look wide enough. I'm no good at identifying snakes in any case. I think I would kill it.
 
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BeeBoop said:


Hmm rattle snake, might be. I can't see the tail. Want me video myself killing it for you guys?
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lol Is it still stuck under the garage door? If so you should probably make a decision. I'd build a little wall around it then open the door and hope he doesnt dash inside. If he dashes inside I would move...he can have the house.
 
Let me get this straight. A harmless snake got caught under the garage door. You got confused as to what to do and went to bed while the snake still sat trapped under the door. Then, in the morning, still confused, you suddenly came up with the bright idea to just kill it with a shovel.

You could have gone the better route of slightly opening the door and gently pushing the snake away to safety right after noticing it was trapped. You go on your own way and the snake goes on its own way.
 
IronWing said:
Next week's thread: Help! How do I get rid of the mice in my garage?
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😀

to be fair, that snake looked to be toast after he smashed it with the garage door.

sad, it was a beauty. :\

CornSnakeBlackJuvenile2.jpg


http://www.livescience.com/44008-corn-snakes.html
 
AdamK47 said:
Let me get this straight. A harmless snake got caught under the garage door. You got confused as to what to do and went to bed while the snake still sat trapped under the door. Then, in the morning, still confused, you suddenly came up with the bright idea to just kill it with a shovel.

You could have gone the better route of slightly opening the door and gently pushing the snake away to safety right after noticing it was trapped. You go on your own way and the snake goes on its own way.
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PETA? lol

The snake was pretty much dead after getting crushed by the garage. If you look at the picture, it's head was completely black. I should have did it a favor and smashed it last night. Anyway, I didn't know if it was poisonous or not and there was too many conflicting answers in this thread.
 
AdamK47 said:
Let me get this straight. A harmless snake got caught under the garage door. You got confused as to what to do and went to bed while the snake still sat trapped under the door. Then, in the morning, still confused, you suddenly came up with the bright idea to just kill it with a shovel.

You could have gone the better route of slightly opening the door and gently pushing the snake away to safety right after noticing it was trapped. You go on your own way and the snake goes on its own way.
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oh wait...it was that long?

ffs.
 
BeeBoop said:
PETA? lol

The snake was pretty much dead after getting crushed by the garage. If you look at the picture, it's head was completely black. I should have did it a favor and smashed it last night.
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Yes.

Anyway, I didn't know if it was poisonous or not and there was too many conflicting answers in this thread.
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If it was crushed, and its fate was sealed anyway, what does it matter whether or not it was poisonous?
 
I'm not sure if it died by the initial blow. It might have lived if I opened the garage. I'm thinking that leaving it stuck under the garage throughout the night killed it.

Everyone seems to think I purposely crushed it with the garage door. I have a garage door opener in my car and pressed it after I parked. As I was walking inside, I saw the snake and didn't react to save it as the door came down on it. I only had a second or two to react but decided against it because I wasn't sure if it was poisonous or not.
 
Childs said:
lol Is it still stuck under the garage door? If so you should probably make a decision. I'd build a little wall around it then open the door and hope he doesnt dash inside. If he dashes inside I would move...he can have the house.
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*Pictures snake sitting on the couch watching TiVo.* LOL
 
BeeBoop said:
PETA? lol

The snake was pretty much dead after getting crushed by the garage. If you look at the picture, it's head was completely black. I should have did it a favor and smashed it last night. Anyway, I didn't know if it was poisonous or not and there was too many conflicting answers in this thread.
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Might of helped if you at least say what country/region/state you're in to help identify what kind of snake it might have been.
 
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