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It was a cow snake, non venomous but neither my husband nor I are very good at identifying snakes, especially in a new area so we were unsure whether it was a copperhead or cow snake as they have those same kind of markings down them. This was the third time he'd manhandled a snake from the house since moving there and I was the one that gave him doubts about what it was. He grabbed the snake and out to the back porch we go. He lets it go as it's squeezing his arm, I grab a shovel and he grabs the tail as it's racing away and it's fast. We almost loose it but I slow it down with the shovel and then he finishes it off. Then we are examining the head trying to remember how to tell, poisenous or non poisenous... round eyes or slanted? Shape of head maybe? Open the mouth.. fangs? yes... do they all have fangs? We discuss that for abit... we figure.. yeah they probably all have teeth. He took it to a neighbor ... Cow Snake. Then there was the time I was weeding the strawberries....... another shovel experience. I killed that bad boy myself. That was a black rat snake and hubby wasn't proud of me at all. Said I should have left it.

Yeah right

I don't like snakes either.

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