Red-on-Yellow,Kill-a-Fello

[Jim Boyd]

Here is Charlie. All of my nieghbors knows him but nobody knows exactly who he belongs to. "Somebody across the lake"


Well he is always hanging out with me and my dogs in the shop. Today I looked out the shop door and saw himafter something in the grass. I asked what he was doing and he snached up the critter and started shaking it. This is what he killed. He earned a doggie treat!

[SplinterHead]

Jim, what type of snake is that (besides deadly)?

[L. D. Jeffries]

Now THAT is scary! Sure glad I live where I do and only have to worry about black flies. mosquitoes, raccoon's eating my bird seed, deer eating all the hosta's and skunks digging for grubs in the lawn, ground hog's digging up the garden and red squirrel's trying to set up housekeeping in the attic!

[dkhoward]

Doggie Treat???? that pooch deserves a steak!

That is a pretty good size coral snake. ANd it looks like it recently lost part of its tail. That is new growth on the end so it may have been a little longer than that originally.

[L. D. Jeffries]

PS: Its a coral snake!!!

[maxparot]

I know Charlie looks like a dog but I think he's part Mongoose.

I believe that Coral Snakes are the most poisonous in the Continental US.
We out here in AZ only have Rattlesnakes, Scorpions and Blackwidow spiders to worry about.

[cwsmith]

CORAL SNAKE!!!! Man, I didn't know they were over there in Texas too (just figured they were in south east swamp areas).

I think you should adopt Charlie, or at least get him a very nice, perpetually filled dog dish. Having a Corel Snake in close proximity to the house would certainly scare the heck out of me. Up here in Steuben County, NY all I have to worry about it deer ticks and the occasional rattle snake. The latter get a bit too close to the house when the weather is hot and dry, and I'm glad I'm moving soon. At least in Broome County, we don't have rattle snakes.

CWS

[wreckwriter]

That's a nice coral. Corals are the most venomous snakes in the U.S. but they are very shy and rarely seen. Even when seen they are somewhat reluctant to bite and are not really strikers, you pretty much have to pick one up to get bitten, so are really much less dangerous than rattlesnakes which can be a lot more agressive.

The "red touch yellow" rhyme does work. Also, corals have black at the very tip of their head. A snake with a red head or where red touches black is a type of kingnake, a benificial rodent eater, totally harmless.

[John Hunter]

I think I would buy Charlie a steak!

[lcm1947]

That is a good size coral snake. The last encounter I had with one was in Viet Nam. Found him in my pup tent one morning. I was sure glad when we moved out of that area. Course I didn't much care for the Cobra either. Heck I didn't even like Viet Nam for that matter. My wife and I just got back from Costa Rica a couple of months ago and while there learned that out of the 139 different type of snakes that 13 were poisonous. I sure was watching where I was going after that. Oh and we were in the jungle for 3 whole days and 2 very long nights. I can truthfully say I don't care for snakes or the jungle.

[just4funsies]

At 22", that is a BIG coral snake. Funny thing about them, though. You practically have to MAKE them bite you. And then you have to let them hang on. It's weird. That's one lucky dog, though. A normal coral would have had to bite him on the tongue, nose, or between the toes, because of the long hair elsewhere, but that big fellow could have gotten a grip just about anywhere and done the deed.

[Whaler]

Shure glad all I have to put up with are gophers, racoons and possoms.

[thestinker]

I know that a lot of snakes are benifiacial and eat mice and what not.. but I still say the only good snakes has been made into boots or a hat band

[430752]

what the ...?

This is why all natual things must perish. Coral snakes? rattlesnakes? black widows? Man, that's stuff you read about, not live. Look, here's what you do, pave everything asunder and choke the air with diesel. not much in terms of natural stuff will live, and you'll like it that way. you can take vacation to look at trees and whatever. That's insane, I like my life threatening danger from other humans, not from some Gummi snake looking thing.


curt j.

[Pappy]

Got one a couple of years ago with the lawn tractor. Not that big, though.

Curt, I'll put up with the occasional snake or scorpion...They come with relatively clean air and these...


You can keep the concrete jungle.