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: Good pictures. It looks like a racer
: skin. They are nonvenomous and harmless
: and do eat rodents.
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: facebook.com Chris Low Andrews Check
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: Snake Skin Surprises. Will add the
: requested type photo when Hubby gets
: home.
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: I will ask hubby to take the photo.
: When
: I say I am frightened I mean petrified.
: I have not been in the barn in over a
: week and the walkway at the back of the
: house for two weeks. I said King rat
: because the Missouri Site on snakes
: called the one that looked the closest
: a King Rat Snake. Any snake that is as
: long as I am tall can be called king in
: my book. Will facebook work?
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: Well, it soes indeed sound, as Wayne
: says, like Rat Snakes or possibly
: Racers. No such thing as King Rat
: snake...
: A good way to assure yourself that it
: is harmless is to get close to the skin
: (the skin, even of a venomous snake, is
: harmless) and check the scales on the
: tail. If there is a row of two scales
: on the underside of the tail, it is
: certainly harmless. Get a good photo of
: the underside of the tail on one of the
: skins, or better yet, all of them, and
: post it on Flickr or another site that
: has photo sharing, and send us a link
: here. Wayne or I can take a look at it.
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: So how do I load a photo of this snake
: skin. I braved getting within a foot
: of the skin to take the photo. As it
: turns out it was a small skin compared
: to the two skins I discovered the next
: day. One was 18 inches long, one was
: two feet long, and the one in our barn
: was 5 feet 2 inches long. I would feel
: better about these finds if I could say
: to myself...oh its only a king rat
: snake...it won't kill me.
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: Sounds like a Black Rat Snake or a
: Racer.
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: Both are rat eaters as it turns out
: :-).
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: I am currently trying to figure out
: what
: type of snake is living in our home
: area. I admit to being terrified of
: snakes and I am trying to be snake
: friendly and learn about them. I live
: in Richmond, Missouri and yesterday I
: found a big, snake skin curled around
: one of our tiger lilies. I have a
: photo but am not sure how to post it.
: It is grayish black with a tan
: underskin. Of course it is very
: stretched. I am hoping for some sort of
: rat eater.
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