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nicolefowler2005

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Well I am now a member of the corn snake bite club lol. It was totally my fault I took the fuzzies out of the bag to thaw out and didn't wash my hands before grabbing Bella to weigh her....DUH NICOLE!! So needless to say my finger smelled like food and she was much quicker than me lol

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She told me the fuzzy tasted much better!!


Nicole
 
So far (knock on wood) I've only been bitten by a few wild caught rat snakes and one Boa in a pet shop in front of a dozen other people. I've to this day never been bitten by any of my pet snakes or anybody else's.

Me and some buddies go out one weekend every summer to see who can catch the most snakes in a one day period. You'd think we'd all get bitten, but interestingly enough, even the wild snakes don't always bite, but I do manage to get bitten at least once a year.

It's still January and it's supposed to be 11 degrees here in Tennessee tonight and snow on Wednesday, but I am looking forward to warmer weather and being in the woods with my snake hook, a bag, and a bleeding thumb.
 
When I was a teenager we caught wild rat snakes all the time, and every summer I would keep a few just during the warmer months, but my mom would always make me let them go so they could hibernate over the winter.

Today people tend to frown on keeping wild snakes and it's even illegal in most places so we practice "Catch and Release."
 
Yeah I knew a lot of people frown upon it but I figured it might be different if you were planning on taking care of it, I live in Maine and the only real wild snakes I ever see are garters and milk snakes! We don't have any fun ones up here


Nicole
 
I live in Kansas and the only ones I see are copperheads, garters and black king snakes.. neither are liked by my neighbors, but they eat the mice on our farm, so I don't mind them. And only one is poisonous. So I never really worry.
 
nicolefowler2005 said:
Yeah I knew a lot of people frown upon it but I figured it might be different if you were planning on taking care of it, I live in Maine and the only real wild snakes I ever see are garters and milk snakes! We don't have any fun ones up here


Nicole
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Gusku said:
I live in Kansas and the only ones I see are copperheads, garters and black king snakes.. neither are liked by my neighbors, but they eat the mice on our farm, so I don't mind them. And only one is poisonous. So I never really worry.
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Nicole & Gusku a lot of folks like to keep Garter snakes and Milk snakes and King snakes, and they are fun to catch too. I don't have many Milk snakes in my area (never seen any) but we have garter snakes, yellow rat snakes, gray rat snakes, red rat snakes (corn snakes), apalachian King snakes, speckled King snakes, Banded water snakes, several species of Bull snake (gopher snake) and of course the venomous guys, the Eastern Diamond Back Rattler, the Timber rattler, the Copperhead and the Water Moccasin (Cottonmouth).
If I can't identify the snake I leave it alone. The rattlesnakes always warn you first, and even a Cottonmouth gives a warning too if you pay attention.

But we catch and release all the harmless guys, they are fun to catch and compare and play with for a few minutes. And there's not a better way in the world to get used to snake bites and identifying snakes than to actually go out and look for them and catch some.
 
Today is the first day Charlie didn't bite me when I picked him up. *knock on wood* because the day isn't over yet, and I'm about to feed the two babies. :rolleyes:
 
I wish this was an option for me because honestly some of the most beautiful snakes I've seen have been wild but like I said the only snakes around here are the green garter snakes and milk adders (not sure of their real name) Maine is pretty boring when it comes to snake variety lol


Nicole
 
The laws, of course differ by state, but it wasn't hard to find information when I last looked them up (assuming, the info was kept up to date).

People sure do differ on the ethics of it. I understand that, and personally I would never just take a healthy snake out of the woods, but when you find a couple of hatchlings in your house, and it is already too cold out, and they are both in terrible shape, and the avail sources say it IS legal...

Well, just sayin.
 
I have a whole clutch of holdbacks, 15 of them, and they went through a phase where more than half of them would (feeding) bite as they were removed from their vivs for feeding! Now that they are nearly two years old, I'm happy that they have outgrown this. It was BAD when they were yearlings!
 
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