Thread: What is this snake?

I came in from the FD this a.m. and my bullheaded chessie, had her next victim. Danged old water moccasin. Looked similar to the first post. She had that thing gutted like i had never seen, and got an extra pat on the head.. when she brought it to me. Now I just took a large bullfrog from her.. What's next a big nasty loggerhead?

Originally Posted by firefighter_958

I came in from the FD this a.m. and my bullheaded chessie, had her next victim. Danged old water moccasin. Looked similar to the first post. She had that thing gutted like i had never seen, and got an extra pat on the head.. when she brought it to me. Now I just took a large bullfrog from her.. What's next a big nasty loggerhead?

Well while we are correcting each other.... Why stop now?

A loggerhead is a "sea turtle"
We have common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtles.
The common has a long neck and can strike like a rattle snake!
The alligator has no neck and you will find they sit with there mouth open and wiggle there tongue when the fish comes to the wiggling tongue SNAP! we have a couple of commons in a fish tank, that's where extra minners go!

alligatorsnturtle alligator loggerhead same species...dont see many common water turtles... if aint aggressive enough it may just become gator bait

Why does everyone think that the only good snake is a dead snake?? Most do more good than harm. IMO it is much better to learn to identify which are poisonous and steer clear of them. Let the non-poisonous live to eat more rodents and vermin!!

I'm with you
cache22

Let the snakes slither if at all possible. The problem now is that they are absolutely everywhere since the high water. Most snakes I run across are of the non-poisonous variety. Even some of those can be really aggressive. Ran across a king snake in the road a few years ago and I stopped cause I wanted a better look. When I tried to drag him back into the road, he put me in the truck.:D

I also agree with cache 22, when I as a kid I carried a spreading adder around in my pocket...just kick a little dirt on a spreading adder and it will play dead, roll on to its back with its mouth open and tongue hanging out...looks really dead until you roll it back over on its belly, then it rolls back on its back and plays dead again...cannot make one bite you (I couldn't anyway)...I stopped carrying it around in my pocket when my Grandma asked what was moving in my pocket...she was sweeping out the well house and broke out the light fixture when she tried to hit the snake and me with the broom...from that day on she thought I was a troubled child...never could catch a blue racer...

Originally Posted by firefighter_958

alligatorsnturtle alligator loggerhead same species...dont see many common water turtles... if aint aggressive enough it may just become gator bait

Common "snapping" turtle not water.
Google logger head, its a sea turtle genius! Google it and do some research before you argue with me!

Hey Einstein we are in Arkansas, and there are no native sea turtles in the river bottoms here, maybe in your part of the state, but I really and truely doubt it. Do some research, besides google. If you will follow the link>> alligatorsnturtle << You will see what I was talking about "The largest freshwater turtle in North America is the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macroclemys temminckii, often locally called the Loggerhead Turtle (not to be confused with the Loggerhead sea turtle that is common along Louisiana’s coast" As for arguing or correcting, as you stated prior, It was not meant that way, only posted as a comparison.