¡Snek!

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

That’s more action than futureman has ever seen.

[Jerry Callo 8,722]

That indeed looks like snek pron.  You can also sign up for the Central Texas Snake ID facebook page.  The admins identify snakes and have people that can be contacted for relocation.  It is a great site if you want to learn to identify snakes.  Those two are plain-bellied water snakes as identified above.  Not venomous, but will defensively strike and bite.  

[Lat22 4,015]

ID please. I’m not at home and this is around the pool. 
 

[gsoda3 3,281]

broad banded water snake.  

[Lat22 4,015]

Thank you. I’ll call off the air strike. 

[RollLeft 5,045]

13 hours ago, Hammerin Hank said:

There’s 2 of em. I’m at the baseball game but my wife and the boy went home early. She just sent these pics. Is this snake porn?

how long before baby sneks?

Edited May 20, 2022 by RollLeft

[Homesickhorn 2,208]

14 hours ago, Hammerin Hank said:

There’s 2 of em. I’m at the baseball game but my wife and the boy went home early. She just sent these pics. Is this snake porn?

This is what happens when you leave Barry White playing on your external speakers.  I'm beginning to think you're doing this on purpose. 

[Homesickhorn 2,208]

2 hours ago, Lat22 said:

ID please. I’m not at home and this is around the pool. 
 

Broad Banded Water snek.  Exact same as the one posted on page 60.  Awesome snek, had one as a pet for almost four years.  Fed him guppies, and watching how he'd eat was freaking amazing.

[High Plains Drifter 11,050]

1 hour ago, RollLeft said:

how long before baby sneks?

 

2 or 3 months at the most, I believe. If those are water snakes they will be born live.

I  believe rat snakes lay eggs, which could be laid sooner.

 

[The Original Greaser Bob 2,846]

Need to vent.  Brother's Aussie in Helotes got bit last night by a rattler in the eyeball.  She's going to make it but will lose the eye.

No Country For Young Bitches

[SquishMitten 10,425]

Holy fuck. How does one manage to get struck by a rattler in the eyeball?!?

 

ETA: I somehow failed to understand he was talking about a dog rather than a human. 

Edited May 20, 2022 by SquishMitten

[TwiceHorn 31,532]

11 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Holy fuck. How does one manage to get struck by a rattler in the eyeball?!?

Curious doggo without avoidance training. 

[Jerry Callo 8,722]

1 hour ago, Homesickhorn said:

This is what happens when you leave Barry White playing on your external speakers.  I'm beginning to think you're doing this on purpose. 

That's true.  The question is why his wife was playing Barry White while he was at a baseball game . . . well, not so much of a question as an observation.

[SquishMitten 10,425]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Curious doggo without avoidance training. 

Gotdamn I'm stupid. For some reason I thought he was talking about his brother's Australian wife.

[4th and 5 4,915]

He is.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Went cruising for snakes this afternoon.  Large ratsnake got away from me and saw what was likely a ribbon snake hauling ass across the road.  Also a dead cottonmouth and this nerodia that was not keen on me getting closer.

And this non-snek

[tfoolry 8,231]

 

 

[NorthLoop 14,229]

14 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

 

freg

[thunderlounge 7,916]

1 hour ago, tfoolry said:

 

 

Should be in the holy shit thread for multiple reasons. 

[South Austin 52,576]

1 hour ago, tfoolry said:

 

 

Well, there goes my good night's sleep.

[tfoolry 8,231]

5 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Should be in the holy shit thread for multiple reasons. 

Done. 

[bschoolprof 6,271]

I've seen that clip in a nature documentary on netflix, ironically.  

That whole island/land mass should be nuked pronto.  

[The Original Greaser Bob 2,846]

On 5/20/2022 at 12:56 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Curious doggo without avoidance training. 

LIttle girl is at home, lost her eye.  Doctors a bit concerned that the skin that was sutured around the eye pocket may have been a bit compromised by the venom, so keeping a close watch. 

[thunderlounge 7,916]

Is that that snake island or some shit off Brazil?

[ChickenSandwich 9,849]

1 hour ago, bschoolprof said:

I've seen that clip in a nature documentary on netflix, ironically.  

That whole island/land mass should be nuked pronto.  

Planet Earth II

 

Iguana vs Snakes (Full Clip) | Planet Earth II | BBC Earth - Bing video

[South Austin 52,576]

26 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Is that that snake island or some shit off Brazil?

No.  Snake Island is a whole other level of hell.

 

[thunderlounge 7,916]

13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

No.  Snake Island is a whole other level of hell.

 

oh yeah. the non-round eye island of fuck all that shit hell. 
 

I dunno where that was filmed, but if it was on my list it’s off. 🤣

[Native Horn 3,512]

I would like to envenomate that Australian 60 Minutes reporter though.

[Homesickhorn 2,208]

I just heard that Iguana entered the transfer portal. Someone better pick his ass up.

[Gatorubet 30,294]

Holy fuck. How does one manage to get struck by a rattler in the eyeball?!?

[Underdog 28,767]

Iguana met his demise in Tijuana. 

[davidg 4,038]

29 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Iguana met his demise in Tijuana. 

[Speedtrucker 2,076]

Yeah fuck snake island, saw that special once and said nope, fuck you im out

[Dutch 4,474]

Neighbor found snek on his deck near pool. Can anyone ID?

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Nerodia (watersnake). But damn, that is a weird one.

[TwiceHorn 31,532]

6 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Nerodia (watersnake). But damn, that is a weird one.

I actually blew by one on the trail Sunday pretty similar to that, with a bit more red in it, or on top of it, stretched out parallel to the trail.

They sure can do the pit viper head.  

Edited May 31, 2022 by TwiceHorn

[Brisketexan 105,279]

Got a text from my neighbor Sunday morning, asking for advice on how to handle a big snake on his porch. I put on pants and walked on over. His whole family was a bit freaked, because it had been crawling up the front door when they got home from HEB.
It had crawled down to the actual porch itself - pretty 3.5 foot rat snake.
I told him they could just poke it with a stick to get it to move along - he says, umm, how?
I take a stick, lift the snake gently, snake gets a bit pissed and rears up. I let him calm down, then move him along, he slithers around the side of the house.
I remind the neighbor that’s a good snake, you want him around. If you ever need to clear him out, now you know how.
It still kind of amazes me how some people have a visceral fear of all snakes, but it’s obviously some deep biological thing.

[Jerry Callo 8,722]

35 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Neighbor found snek on his deck near pool. Can anyone ID?

Plain-bellied water snake.  Harmless.

[Jerry Callo 8,722]

21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Got a text from my neighbor Sunday morning, asking for advice on how to handle a big snake on his porch. I put on pants and walked on over. His whole family was a bit freaked, because it had been crawling up the front door when they got home from HEB.
It had crawled down to the actual porch itself - pretty 3.5 foot rat snake.
I told him they could just poke it with a stick to get it to move along - he says, umm, how?
I take a stick, lift the snake gently, snake gets a bit pissed and rears up. I let him calm down, then move him along, he slithers around the side of the house.
I remind the neighbor that’s a good snake, you want him around. If you ever need to clear him out, now you know how.
It still kind of amazes me how some people have a visceral fear of all snakes, but it’s obviously some deep biological thing.

Spraying with a garden hose will move them along as well.

[SimonBolivar 10,958]

25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Got a text from my neighbor Sunday morning, asking for advice on how to handle a big snake on his porch. I put on pants and walked on over. His whole family was a bit freaked, because it had been crawling up the front door when they got home from HEB.
It had crawled down to the actual porch itself - pretty 3.5 foot rat snake.
I told him they could just poke it with a stick to get it to move along - he says, umm, how?
I take a stick, lift the snake gently, snake gets a bit pissed and rears up. I let him calm down, then move him along, he slithers around the side of the house.
I remind the neighbor that’s a good snake, you want him around. If you ever need to clear him out, now you know how.
It still kind of amazes me how some people have a visceral fear of all snakes, but it’s obviously some deep biological thing.

Lol do you also help him put on pants in the morning?

[Brisketexan 105,279]

Lol do you also help him put on pants in the morning?

Hess a really good dude (professional chef, amazing cook, good messican drinking buddy sitting on the curb sometimes), but he’s not exactly outdoorsy.

[The Original Greaser Bob 2,846]

So our approach of killing all snakes, no matter their markings,  with machetes/garden tools and then claiming they were copperheads is frowned upon?

[The Original Greaser Bob 2,846]

...at least by surlyites who wear trousers?

[thunderlounge 7,916]

And your mother. 

[retsevlys 408]

Not snek, but close.  My family's neighbor had a pond that needed these relocated.  My nieces caught them and relocated them in a swamp behind my parents' house. Eight total relocated.

[mchookem 16,371]

holy shit! lol please tell me you're in FL or LA and not central Texas 😄

[retsevlys 408]

AL. They're in the bend of a major river, about three miles to the river in three directions.  I grew up with alligators either coming from the river to raise young on our land or alligators walking through the yard to get to wherever they were going.  

When I was around twelve, we had a mama gator dig a hole in the swamp on our property to have her babies.  My dad went and caught a couple for my sister and I to take to school.  The mama would come up out of the hole hissing because my dad was disturbing the babies.  The babies make a grunting sound to communicate with their mother.  Kind of like an unt unt unt techno beat.

[miguelito 11,294]

cute little fellas.

[thunderlounge 7,916]

Bet they’d be good with a little smokehouse maple on the grill. 

[TwiceHorn 31,532]

32 minutes ago, miguelito said:

cute little fellas.

They sure are.  I had rubber alligators when I was a kid, from GI Joe sets and other things, and they were damn good likenesses of those lil rascals.