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Originally Posted by MotleyMedusa7
one time a diamondbacked water snake fished a fairly large baby catfish out of my pond & swallowed it whole & alive--I didn't even know we had catfish lol.....oops yeah-sorry for the hijack lol
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That's what I meant- a watersnake wouldn't constrict it and a venomous snake wouldn't grab it live and attempt a swallow. But both might just bite it and withdraw. The reason I saidhopper was I was thinking that all the movement would draw a reaction strike and the size would be big enough to defray an easy meal.Also mice are not either Cottonmouths nor watersnakes first meal of choice. I don't see a hijack here but that's just me.
I mess with snakes all the time that I don't know what they are. I learned how to identify the handful of venomous snakes in my area and I don't mess with them. I do treat every snake as a venomous snake when handling them until I get a positive ID. To do otherwise is just stupid IMHO.
If it does have vertical pupils- that pretty much trumps any other doubts. .....