Yellow Rat Snake? Rat snakes are good to have around.
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I had 9 snakes in my backyard last summer. One crawled out of my sons dump truck as he picked it up. Try as you might---nobody could convince me snakes are good to have around!
Hi! I looked up Bull Snake and Yellow Rat Snake on Google. While most of the photos on the Yellow Rat Snake showed lengthwise stripes, there were some with stripes going the other way...and this is what this snake looked like! I then read up on them, and apparently they are dominant in the northwest part of Florida. The mystery may be solved.
Thanks to everyone for their input!!!!!
OMG, Rita. I love this. I was bitten by a ground rattler when I was five. I wandered around a bit before going in to see my Grandma at the little country store she ran. I went in and she sat me up on the counter. I told her I had been under the plum tree and had stepped on a bee. She saw the fang marks in my heel and started screaming for my dad and Grandpa.They went out back to get the snake to take with me to the hospital. The snake struck at my grandpas work boots and got it's fangs stuck in the leather and thats how they caught it so I would be given the right anti venom. I still don't fear them but have a healthy respect for them when we meet.Just remember - this is what rattlesnakes learn starting in preschool:
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