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Dog barking woke me today.....this was on the kitchen floor...kingsnake.
 

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Morning Rick, Whew! Seeing that in your kitchen certainly could raise the blood pressure. I guess I will be the first, "wonder what that would look like as a pen".
 
I thought that too till I read about them. They eat rattlers....plus he needs to get bigger to fit around a pen tube......Scarlet king to be exact.
 
I was thinking about keeping it but sounds like its more involved than I am willing to do...back to the wild with him. First, I may freak out the guy next door, he hates snakes..... I think it came in the dog door.
 
Not for sure either but I do know some king snakes resemble coral snakes. Yes they do eat rattlesnakes. The only way a rattlesnake can kill a king snake is if it strikes it in it heart. I had a science teacher in high school that had a king snake as a pet and they fed it baby rattlesnakes. He also said they have a distinct smell and you can rub the snake on your pants legs and walk through a den of rattlers, and he says the rattlesnakes will litteraly party the way, like the red sea! I haven't and dont plan to try! Cool find!
 
From the boy scouts. Red and black friend of jack, Red and Yellow kill a fellow. That's how you tell them apart the king snake and the coral snake.
 
Yep we see them all the time down here. Glad ya didn't kill it. Ya need to put a sign on the dog door "No Snakes Allowed" Maby it came to wish ya happy birthday. :smile::cake:
 
Red touches yellow ... kills a fellow.
Yellow touches black ... he eats rats.

That is how I learned to tell a Coral snake (deadly) from a king snake (harmless).
You should let him go in some farmers field ... that snake is one of the good ones.
 
Wildman said:
Another vote for Scarlet King/Milk snake, which do eat mice and rats.

No, they do not milk cows, that's just an ugly rumor.
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Like the Hoopsnake???:biggrin::biggrin:


I don't know what it was... probably a grass snake, but a few years back one of the cats brought a snake into the house and let it go.... it went under the fridge and my wife refused to go into the kitchen until I got it out of the house.
 
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Thank you for not killing that wonderful helper on site. Many people have such a fear of them without knowing what they are and do.

Our cats brought a beautiful rat snake into the kitchen last week. Thqnk goodness my wife did not freek out. She just tole me to take it outside and give it away. My late wife reverted to a three word vocabulary whenever she saw any kind of snake, "SNAKE, KILL IT". I tried to hide the snake and take it back to the woods so she could not see me turn it loose.
 
How about red on yellow your a lucky fellow and yellow on red you'll soon be dead. Growing up in California I saw many of these and we called them Coral King Snakes....The deadly Coral Snakes were not indiginous.
 
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Back when cowboys rode the range checking fences, and staying overnight in line shacks along those same very loooong fences, some of them would carry a pet king snake along.

Since the line shacks stayed empty for months at a time, they tended to attract less than savory lodgers like rattlers...ride up to a line shack, toss in your pet king snake, let him clean out the squatters and then collect him back up again.

Now you have a cleared shack to sleep in for the night!

For those who appreciate an historical perspective. :rolleyes:
 
I too am glad you let it go. It will do much more good out 'there' than on a pen.
 
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