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To ask a question about a snake, don't reply to this post, go to the forum home page and start a new post. Your question will get a lot more exposure. Please give us an idea of where you live, as reptiles can often be identified only by locality!
Please do not place messages about killing a snake, and asking what kind it is you have killed! That is like going onto a message board about dogs and telling about torturing one to death, and asking what kind of breed it was. You will likely get "flamed", and likely by the forum owner, depending on his mood that day.
A note about head shape in snakes: Head shape is a totally useless character for identifying a snake, and has nothing to do with whether the serpent is or is not venomous (poisonous). Many harmless snakes, especially when young, have rather large heads. Please describe color, pattern, markings, and habitat where the snake was found. The shape of the head will not help us in any way.
Thank you.
Copperhead babies?
Posted by Cathy
on July 20, 2007, 5:29 pm
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Over the past two days the snake wrangler from our local sherriff's office and animal preserve has come out and captured two copperheads from our garden in the N. Georgia mountains . He told me today that since there were two, to be on the lookout for babies. My question for you is how long should we be checking for them? I have seven kids that would love to go back outside to play, but we can't do that until we know they won't get in the way of the babies. What time of year are babies normally seen in N. Georgia? I love having non venomous snakes in the yard. I wish there was a way to just keep the venomous ones away. Cathy
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