Sorry it took me a bit to get back here and check the other messages, we've had a few issues here that needed fixing due to the flood we just went through (I'm in TN).

While I was cleaning off my fence line of some of the junk/leaves/branches that collected on it thanks to the tons of rain we got on the 1st and 2nd is when this snake came out. Each time I threw it away from me I'd scooped it up with the rake so I wouldn't hurt it with the hopes it would just go into the rocks and we'd both be fine, but twice it came back my direction after I threw it, when I finally smacked it with the rake it did finally go to the rocks.

That night I was talking to one of my neighbors who has snakes and he went and dug around in the rocks (a colvert that comes off the road to my property) and dug around a bit and found that snake and 3 others of a different kind (he said what they were but I didn't pay attention) he said that the orange belly one is not hurt and that he is going to keep all the snakes and add them to his collection.

I'm sorry if I angered people here about my desire not to deal with the snake (I normally leave them alone if they leave me alone, we have a black snake in our barn that has been there for 2 years and we are fine with it, it leaves our goats/dogs and chickes alone and we leave it alone)

Thanks again for all the info I got on this site.

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