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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Backyard Visitor
From: Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:07:07 -0500
I prefer it here in northeast Indiana where the endangered Massassaugua
Rattlesnake is the only poisonous snake. It is small, half a meter long at
full growth, and very rare. My grandpa's old cat, Molly, has killed two of
them but he lived out in the country. Here in the city they are never seen.
Garter snakes, corn snakes, and several other common harmless snakes are
actually very common in the city here. My son and I caught a brown garter
snake last summer under a log in front of the apartment building we live in.
He was pissed..tried to bite me but my pants were too thick.

http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/family-snapshots/snake/

We kept him overnight in an aquarium then let him go the next day. He 'ran'
off quick and never came back!

A few years ago there was a fat 1 meter long garter snake in front of my
parents house sunning himself on the sidewalk one afternoon. He was friendly
and let me get up in his face with a macro lens. I don't have his photo
online yet.



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On 1/10/09 6:50 PM, "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Most of ours are harmless or close to it - gorgeous pythons up north
> - but we lack the common, small non-venomous types like Garter snakes.
> I'm quite fond of the Red-bellied Black Snake and the Australian
> Copperhead. Lovely docile snakes and you'll only spend a couple of
> days in hospital if bitten. :-)
> The Taipan is big, assertive and best admired from a distance - about
> 5 kilometres - and our Brown Snake is fidgetty, twitchy and gives me
> the creeps.
> But there are very few deaths here from snakebite. A young girl was
> bitten twice by a Tiger Snake the other day and that made the news -
> she was hardly harmed by the experience.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/01/2009, at 3:18 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>> But I would not recommend that you play with most of the snakes in
>> Oz or
>> a select few in the US.


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