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Originally posted by Good News Knls
That thing wouldn't survive in south Ga. Resembles a rattlesnake at first glace and in the heat of the moment would be killed just for looking like a rattler. I do believe that some snakes are good snakes but they all scare me to death and when you are scared its hard to be rational. Around here we kill everything but King snakes and Indigo's.

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Milk snake. Copperheads have copper colored heads.

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Originally posted by trackntreeman
the diamonds on his back give him away ! its not a milk snake , rattlesnake , or anything else ! there's a ton of them around here in wva were i live .

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I have killed probably 50 copperheads in my life, that isnt one...I would guess corn snake from pics but not sure, just know it isnt a copperhead...

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a hog nose snake to me they imitate rattlers but are harmless
they eat toads

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I grew up with two brothers who collected snakes.

Eastern Milk snake
http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/Lt_triangulum.html

Eastern hognose snake
http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snak...platirhinos.jpg

Timber rattler
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp...tmbrrattler.pdf

Copperhead
http://www.copperheadsnake.net/pictures.htm

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That gives me the bejebees just looking at it. I hate snakes and are afraid of them as I can be. I don't care if their poisonous or not. Heck, I won't even walk through the snake house at the zoo, and those things are behind glass!!

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If the pupils are round its non-venomous, if the pupils are like cats pupils then they are venomous. This holds true with all pit vipers. The only exception is with coral snakes.

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Round pupils non-poisonous except for coral snakes is true. Which brings me back to my first post on page 1. My computer makes the eye look slitted to me, but can't tell. also the width of the head as compared to the neck would have told me something if it had a neck.
Does anybody have a pic of a Pygmy rattlesnake? There is such a thing. Thanks

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Pygmy rattler
http://www.stetson.edu/artsci/pigmy/index.php

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i agree with the neck part,,,,,,, if it had one, here in pennsylvania we have rattlesnakes and lots of them, mostly the timber rattlesnake that comes in 2 color phases, the black phase and the yellow phase! both found in the same dens, and then we have this little feller found in the western part of pa called the massasauga rattlesnake! corn snake? maybe! the mass of the head compared to what the neck should look like! i would say it is the massasauga rattlesnake and a juvinile snake at that! check to see if they are located in that part of your state and that should shed some light on it! also did you open its mouth with a stick to check for fangs? only venomous snakes will have them! 2 long needles = trouble, just a row of short teeth = non-venomous

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for all the replies, I have learned alot about snakes lately, I dont like snakes but but am ok withem as long as I see them first, I wouldnt knowingly kill a harmless snake, I still have'nt seen any photos of one like this one, its neck was flat and wider than the body (like ran over by a bicycle), now I know to check for pits and vertical eyes and the underbelly to see if it is venimous, for this one I thought I could be standing in a area with a bunch of them around, so I eliminated the doubt and carried it out to find out what it was for future reference, I am going back there Sunday and will take another look if possible.

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