What Snake is This?

Hoji · Aug 31, 2019

birddog said:
I need to take a trip and hang out on your back porch

Baby hogs make really good pets. If you find a toad that’s road kill put it in a ziplock and rub thawed frozen pinkie mice on it and leave it in its enclosure. It will feed eventually, probably at night.

Best time to find roadkill toad is after a heavy rain

Reinz · Aug 31, 2019

The Hognose is mildly venomous, but rear fanged. Meaning that the fangs are in the back of it’s mouth and needs a few seconds to chew on you to release the venom.

Even then the venom does not hurt most people. Some people may have a hand swell up and be painful, but it resides in a day or two.

You really have to piss off a Hognose to get bit with venom. They usually just head butt you and people think they had a bite that didn’t hurt.

satx78247 · Sep 1, 2019

Reinz said:
The Hognose is mildly venomous, but rear fanged. Meaning that the fangs are in the back of it’s mouth and needs a few seconds to chew on you to release the venom.

Even then the venom does not hurt most people. Some people may have a hand swell up and be painful, but it resides in a day or two.

You really have to piss off a Hognose to get bit with venom. They usually just head butt you and people think they had a bite that didn’t hurt.

Reinz,

The "tame hognose" that BIT me was super upset by a Jr. HS kid knocking a book off of his desk (The book made a BIG noise, when it hit the floor. = NOT the snake/my fault OR even the kid's.), while I was doing a "nature presentation" at the JHS using a snake from the Nature Center..

I can attest that they bite REALLY HARD & have a mouthful of SHARP teeth.

NOT venomous, as far as I know, as at least my bite on the forearm was easily treated with some soap/warm water & some anti-biotic cream.

yours, satx

skfullgun · Sep 23, 2019

This was a morning surprise. BIL almost stepped on it. It's hard to see them on the floor of the piney woods!

BRD@66 · Sep 23, 2019

Scarey. I haven't seen one of those since I hiked in the woods of Ft Hood in '72.

skfullgun · Sep 23, 2019

Here is a picture of the same snake on the ground. Expert camo!

AustinN4 · Sep 23, 2019

skfullen said:
I hate snakes. That photo made my skin crawl.

You and me both, brutha.

satx78247 · Sep 23, 2019

skfullen,

While "the little brown Copperhead" is VERY common all over Texas & DEFINITELY venomous, they are GENERALLY quite shy & seldom bite UNLESS you step on, sit upon or are FOOLISH enough to try to pick one up.
(Nearly HALF of Copperhead bites are caused by someone trying to "catch one" with bare hands.)

There are NO confirmed cases of FATAL bites on healthy adults, though you definitely need professional medical treatment IF you get a bite that has venom injected..

yours, satx

deemus · Sep 23, 2019

Copperheads are aggressive in my experience. I've been chased several times. I hate those little bastids.

Younggun · Sep 23, 2019

skfullen said:
Here is a picture of the same snake on the ground. Expert camo! View attachment 185815

You turned a bad snake in to a good snake.

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skfullgun · Sep 23, 2019

I have found that a few strokes with the pointy end of a shovel has a calming effect on the ones around here.

satx78247 · Sep 23, 2019

deemus said:
Copperheads are aggressive in my experience. I've been chased several times. I hate those little bastids.

deemus,

PERHAPS it just you that Copperheads dislike??
(CHUCKLE.)

I cannot tell you how many "little brown Copperheads" that I relocated "across the river" in the long-ago days when I ran a Boy Scout camp in Arkansas. In pre-camp preparation in 1982, over 75 Copperheads "made the trip across the river".= ANGRY, HOWLING, (and often) WEEPING MAMAS were the primary cause of those "relocations", even though in over 60 years we had NEVER had even one Scout bitten by a Copperhead at the camp.
(It was easier to relocate the snakes than to constantly hear the ranting/whining/complaining/threats/demands of "distressed Mamas".)

Since WWII we have had EXACTLY TWO snakebites on the camp property. - BOTH were Water Moccasin bites & both adults were trying to CATCH a snake.
(One waterfront staff member in 1956 & an Asst. Scoutmaster in 1981.)

Be NOT deceived: 'Ole Stump-tail Moccasin IS aggressive & being a CARRION-EATER his bite is VERY dangerous & oftentimes "life-threatening".
(I have been bitten by a Moccasin & the RAGING SYSTEMIC INFECTION that I got from the bite was FAR WORSE than his venom.)

yours, satx

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