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OT: Snake?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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What kind of snake is short, fat, and has a flat head and neck when it gets approached?
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Definitely hognose snake. Will roll over and play dead if You mess with it. Please don't hurt it. it is a harmless snake!
 
They have a few tricks. First is to spread their neck & hiss. If that doesn't scare you away they'll strike (with it's mouth closed) hitting you with it's hard "hog snout". If you are still there it will roll over on it's back & play dead. There are rules to playing dead, It's only dead if it's on it's back! If you roll it back on it's belly it will roll back doing this 2 or 3 times & then just run away.....
 
It is the great misfortune of the hog-nose snake (spreading adder, or 'spreadin' outer' in the South) to have such a deadly appearance. They can be fearsome-looking, which usually leads to their demise when they cross paths with a human. As was mentioned earlier, they have an elaborate "playing possum" act, which can include the actual bursting of blood vessels in the back of its mouth, to simulate mortal injury, when threatened.
 
The hog nose is a rear fanged snake. They are venomous but can't/won't sink their fangs into you because we are too big to eat.

They just 'hit' you with their head to warn you. Cool snake, great asset to us.
 
Didn't know they venomous, but they are aggressive. Have one around here and hoped it would eat mice and rats, but seems frogs are the main diet, and the pond has plenty. Would rather keep the frogs for insect control and let it have the rodents.
 
I've got a manly mechanic who runs like a school girl at the sight of a little garter snake. Makes for some laughs. Snakes do a lot of good, I just let them be on their way. Never seen one of those, 2 hours north of you
 
wow! thought I would never see another one! Used to see a lot when I was a kid on the hill farm. Then the farms grew up into woods & it's all but extinct in West Virginia now. Made fun pets. Biology classes always had at least one in a cage.
 
found one once that was so young it could hide under a new NO. 2 pencil but it still spread its hood, then played dead.
 

Every fall I have to buy posions for mice and rats, so in my opinion snakes are a total waste. They serve no useful purpose that I can see.
 
Definately a hognose. Bigger faker than P.T. Barnum. Fun to encounter, you're not sure if you have encountered a rattler, a cobra or roadkill. But totally harmless.
 
Snakes do not bother me so as long as I know what it is it will not worry me one bit. Now if it rattles or is a copper head that is a bit different
 
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