SNake lovers and anyone else! Warning- Snake pics added!

[chicken_angler]

Hi. last night I saw a brown snake slithering through the yard. I grabed a shovel and pinned him down while my mom got a bat and then we killed him.I am wondering if anyone knows what type of snake this might be or if you know of a website I can look at. This is the second one I have spotted and my mom saw one and my dad saw one about 3 feet long. The 2 I found and the one my mom found are about a foot long. I can post pics of it if needed. Thanks for the help! Chickenman8

 

[Mahonri]

You know, some snakes can be beneficial.

Some kill rats. I wouldn't be so quick to dispatch one unless you know what it is first.

 

[chicken_angler]

The ones we have killed so far have been black and can swim in water. The one we found yesterday was fast and it looks like a copperhead!

 

[brandywine]

99% of the "copperheads" people kill in a panic are milk snakes.

Utterly harmless.

Google image search and see.

Or since yours is dead, perhaps he'd pose for a photo.

 

[chicken_angler]

Lol. My dad took it into work to ask the people that he works with what they think it is. Later on I can post a pic. Sorry

 

[dogzrule5]

Copperheads have a very distinctive pattern on them and are not solid brown.

The snake you saw was probably harmless - a brown rat snake or a hog nosed snake.

Let us know what you find out.

 

[chicken_angler]

Ok well it is not all just brown. it has some stripes on it and some dots.

 

[roosters97]

people these days killing snakes *sigh* hog noses have turned up nose like a hog did it?, I was a happy hog noses father (I had an eastern hog nose coolest snake ever ) but he got aggressive

 

[dogzrule5]

It may have been a garter snake...beneficial...

 

[chicken_angler]

that is what my dad said but he is majorly colorblind.lol