Snake Identification Help

[arsenix2001]

100% Rat Snake (chicken snake). Copperheads are very light and dark tan with hourglass markings that are extremely easy to identify. The pattern on the back of that snake is a dead giveaway that it is a rat snake.

100%. Had all sorts of snakes growing up, a copperhead will have very disticnt silver on biege hourglass markings, a fatter body and a muuuch more defined triangulated head. Easter water snakes are readily confused for them but the worst are baby black rat snakes, they look very similar when young before turning all black. Shame too, great little snakes, docile too but they get killed alot for no reason.

 

[clemsonfor]

Could be a water snake? But agreed its not poisonous that head is tiny for the body and is not "classic" triangle shape it just looks that way i guess cause its pressed to the ground. Poisonous snakes always have a head that seems to look to big for the body, at least to me. Another test is to look at the eyes all our poisonous snakes here in the east have cat/slit like eyes,...except the coral snake which has beady eyes and thats the one where its like red on black is a friend of jack or kills jack, red on yellow is a friend of fellow or kills a fellow? I can never remember so i dont mess with banded king snakes as i have no idea which is which, all the others i know its poisonous if i cant pindown what it is at first, but usually can tell. After all all we have is the few rattlesnake species, there easy, copperheads most common, and cottonmouths (and coral).

 

[IcUdoUcme]

except the coral snake which has beady eyes and thats the one where its like red on black is a friend of jack or kills jack, red on yellow is a friend of fellow or kills a fellow? (and coral).

If red touches yellow you're a dead fellow, if red touches black you're OK Jack! :laughing:

 

[vaskeet]

If you think that your dog may have gotten a poisonous snakebite take his collar off as it could choke if he swells. we always took the collars of the coonhounds when we put them in the kennel because you never knew when one had been bitten. Had them get sick but never lost one to snakebite Randy

 

[LMTC]

I came close to majoring in Herpetology, but my fascination was pretty narrowly limited to snakes, so I decided against that. I ended up majoring in Political Science and Political Systems (there's a joke in there somewhere, but both things are true). Anyway, I was taught "red & yellow kill a fellow, red and black venom lack".

 

[2manyrocks]

Sounds like you majored in the study of snakes.

Coloring is close, but not a copperhead.