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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.
found snake
Posted by Wendy
on November 8, 2004, 4:54 pm
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Help! I keep getting these snakes in and around our pool. I live in Atlanta. They seem young...first as small around as a pencil now more like an inch around. They are brown, maybe taupe in color with dark markings at top like alternating rows of dots or diamonds,lower half of body is stripes. When caught in a pool net this week to take out to back of property he lunged at a person who walked by. I'm concerned that they are aggressive...we have dogs. Neighbors have warned of copperheads, but it doesn't look like the pics I have seen. Hard to tell, because they seem to be young, and most pics I find are of adults.
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