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Help getting snake out of the garage
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I am having a hard time with the pic. My first reaction was copperhead but I do agree with a few others that a banded water snake can look quite similar, in the dark, if you are startled, and with a bad/fuzzy pic. I know that at that size, the copperhead will have a clearly visible "copper head", shiny and penny colored.
Water snakes are quite thick. Generally you can get an idea of venomous vs non venomous by the thick body, but a water snake does blow that theory/method. I found a water snake in my garden, tangled in netting at this time of year. Given the rain, and the frogs (which they eat), it is quite possibly a water snake. If you are not totally afraid, try to identify and don't kill a water snake.
Good luck. I have a fear of spiders, and every one I encounter dies, so I do understand.
Water snakes are quite thick. Generally you can get an idea of venomous vs non venomous by the thick body, but a water snake does blow that theory/method. I found a water snake in my garden, tangled in netting at this time of year. Given the rain, and the frogs (which they eat), it is quite possibly a water snake. If you are not totally afraid, try to identify and don't kill a water snake.
Good luck. I have a fear of spiders, and every one I encounter dies, so I do understand.
Oh, and...... All you need is a good shovel. If it is a copperhead, you can kill it with a shovel, and not do any damage to your floors/walls, etc. Snakes have a decent strike, but they don't have super powers. We have dispatched many 2-3 foot copperheads in the yard with a shovel.
Lewis Grizzard would say that was a prime example of the dreaded Copper-Headed Water Rattler. He was so mean if you went to the Holiday inn he'd get a room next door to bite you on the way out in the morning. GLWS
I'm not an expert, but I say it's a water snake...
the reason he cant find it its in his house having babys
