So my dog just tried to eat a snake! **PICS**

[Murpheeee]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Nice pics, your digicam doesn't have optical zoom?

2x optical 3x digital
Canon S110
courtesy of Hot Deals

 

[Murpheeee]

I can't beleive you've never seen a snake before

Hey, I'm from Scotland - they're aren't many snakes there

(unless you count the trouser variety)

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Yeah, he is a harmless constrictor and is nice to have around the yard.I live in Florida and there a more snakes than you shake a stick at I get up one morning and go to the kitchen to make coffee and I see 2 of my cats haunched down staring at the stove so I think "they caught another lizard on the porch and brought him inside to play with and he's hiding under the stove. I move the stove out a bit and there is a 4 foot Black snake which immediately curls up and poises for a strike shaking his tail (pretending to be a venomous rattler ) So I stuck my left hand out for him to take a strike at and grabbed him with my right. I looked him over before I let him outside and he didn't have a mark on him so he probably thumped the cats pretty good and then came through the cat door trying to get away from them because the porch has no place to hide. Anyways a 4 foot snake under the stove will wake you up way faster then coffee

 

[GermyBoy]

That is funny. It looks long though, so unless your dog is pretty big, you might have him crapping some of the snake out before the rest is in the stomach!

 

[rgwalt]

Good for you for protecting the snake. It is probably a garden (or garter) snake. Harmless, and they eat rodents and such.

Poor fellow was getting ready to shed. He was more scared of you than you were of him I guarantee.

Ryan

 

[ttn1]

Sure looks like the garter snakes I use to chase people with when I was younger. Most of the ones we had in central PA looked like that, only a few had very distinct marking like Rallispec's pic.

Now for snake stories. We were hiking one day on a dead end trail along a swamp. On the way back we came upon what looked like a black snake that was about 5 feet long laying across the trail. No way around, so I decided we would get him off the trail by just scaring him. BIG MISTAKE.. He bunched up in a side to side motion preparing to strike. Then he lifted his head at least a foot and a half off the ground. Quite intimidating. So I got a long branch and decided to lift him and move him off the trail. Well, this is when I got the real surprise. When he layed over the branch you could see the diamond shaped marks all the way down his back. It was a 5 foot long black rattler who didn't have a rattle. Needless to say, I moved him off the trail quickly and we double timed it back to the car.

 

[BigPotato]

it looks like a cobra to me.

cobra-lallallaalalalalalaalala!!