[at-l] Indoor wildlife surprise

[carol1944 at brmemc.net (Carol Donaldson)]

However, you will see more water snakes (usually the brown kind) than 
anything.  They *look* like copperheads or cottonmouths and can imitate 
them - they like to sunbathe and hang from trees and they can be quite 
tenacious - but they aren't venomous.   More of them are killed every year 
than copperheads or cottonmouths because they are often mistaken for them.
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I hate that happens.  I let the poisonous ones go and the non-poisonous ones, too.

I was walking on the floodplain with the dogs when I let out a scream at a snake.  A HUGE black or king snake, at least six feet long, tip to tail, 'flew' between me holding the leashes and the oblivious dogs.  That sucker was moving fast, but I caught a look at his or her head and it wasn't a triangle, so my heart attack didn't materialize.  If the snake had just kept sunning itself and not tried to 'shoot' back to the trees, I never would have seen it.

Coosa 
Carol Donaldson
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