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25 May 2006

HOLY CRAP A SNAKE! I came home from a walk with Silver and found this on my front porch. Kinda cute for a snake, really.

post by: eekacat at: 13:12 | 25 comments

I should add that that's a macro shot. It wasn't really big.

posted by eekacat 25 May | 13:14

SNAKES ON A PORCH!!!!

(it had to be done)

posted by Lotto 25 May | 13:17

Great photo! Pretty snake, too. Does the yellow line continue all the way to the tail?

posted by Hugh Janus 25 May | 13:18

Mine does. : )

posted by Pips 25 May | 13:21

Yeah it does, Hugh. Some kind of garter snake I imagine, and I think he recently shed since he was so brightly colored.

posted by eekacat 25 May | 13:25

Your photos are beautiful.

posted by rainbaby 25 May | 13:28

who is silver?

posted by Wedge 25 May | 13:30

...I think he recently shed since he was so brightly colored.

Are we talking about me or the snake? My new skin's so smooth...

(Pretty snake, though. I'm rather fond of snakes and reptiles in general. Held a baby alligator in Florida once; he felt like an alligator bag -- imagine that. He did not like having his jaws taped shut, though.)

posted by Pips 25 May | 13:34

Good thing mudpuppie's not online today.

posted by Specklet 25 May | 13:43

That's probably the cutest snake I've ever seen.

posted by iconomy 25 May | 13:44

Silver is my puppy. He's on my flickr page too.

posted by eekacat 25 May | 13:46

Buddy a mine breeds emerald tree boas, green tree pythons (plus a few other Amazon basin varieties), Kenyan sand boas, and a rainbow of corn snake flavors, plus the odd gecko, iguana, and Russian tortoise. Feeding time is wicked. He has about a hundred different snakes. I've only been bitten once while snake-handling, and that was because I wasn't drinking beer at the time.

posted by Hugh Janus 25 May | 13:48

Snakes are scary.

posted by flopsy 25 May | 14:06

Garter of some sort, tell me where you live and I'll tell you what kind it is. I want one of these myself.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 25 May | 14:10

I bet it is this one, if you live in an area where they are found.

It is really common.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 25 May | 14:12

Huh, never knew garter snakes were so pretty!

posted by deborah 25 May | 14:16

Eekasnake!

posted by sarah connor 25 May | 14:17

Even within one particular type of garter, you can have a lot of color variation. I have seen common eastern garden snakes that were really dull and I have seen some that were absolutely glowing with color. I saw a really vivid one last year in an area that was being cleared and burned off for development, I wanted to catch it and release it elsewhere as I knew it was likely going to be killed by heavy equipment or fire, but it went into a mole tunnel. Perhaps it found a way out of the lot.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 25 May | 14:21

I did not click on that picture and I do not take iconomy's word for it that the snake was "cute."

Slithering death is never cute.

posted by jrossi4r 25 May | 15:08

Good thing mudpuppie's not online today.

Someone said exactly that last night in IRC about a different context.

As if the pup could go off at any moment, or sumthin. Maybe y'all know stuff I don't.

posted by danf 25 May | 15:41

Well, mudpuppies and snakes are enemies...

posted by iconomy 25 May | 15:43

I'm in Colorado Weretable, so I bet you're right. He was a placid guy, and wandered off on his own.

posted by eekacat 25 May | 16:16

Someone said exactly that last night in IRC about a different context.

As if the pup could go off at any moment, or sumthin. Maybe y'all know stuff I don't.
posted by danf 25 May | 15:41

I think this is fairly well established.

And I probably don't want to know what y'all were talking about last night, so I'll just try to put it out of my mind.

Except if I do that, I start thinking about snakes.

Fuck. Can't win.

posted by mudpuppie 25 May | 16:17

And I probably don't want to know what y'all were talking about last night, so I'll just try to put it out of my mind.

Um, um . . .

Just random boy-girl stuff and we all jumped down someone's throat on your (well our own, actually) behalf. I don't remember the exact exchanges. . .but it was just funny that someone TODAY said the same thing in a different context.

posted by danf 25 May | 18:04

Well, I'm sure that you totally served my interests and protected my honor.

posted by mudpuppie 25 May | 18:26

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