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Posted by: Bigfoot at Sat Sep 1 23:50:30 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bigfoot ]  
   

I do hope you are still reading and hope you can understand why some people on this forum have gotten upset about the snake being killed. That particular snake is particularly upsetting because it obviously had an abberent color pattern. As such, a live snake would have been worth a fair bit of money and would have been a delight for a herper to own and breed.



I saw a similar pattern today in a cornsnake X Honduran kingsnake cross. It is highly unlikely such a hybrid would be crawling loose around NC but it might have been an abberent cornsnake. If I had a corn of that pattern, you can be sure I would be breeding up a lot of them.



The other possibility might be an abberent copperhead, which is poisonous. They bite more people in NC than any other poisonous snake though bites are uncommon and it has been at least half a century since one has killed anybody in North Carolina. The way to tell a copperhead is to look at the top of its head. It is a true copper color. You won't find that in any other NC snake. I don't keep copperheads but I know somebody who does.



Whatever the snake, if you find another with the same pattern, don't kill it. Maneuver it into a container and email me. I'll be happy to come get it.



Bigfoot.



p.s. I also saw a beautiful solid yellow rat snake someone had caught wild somewhere in southeast NC. It's going to take the person who caught it 3 or 4 years to start getting the same color babies but once he does, he's going to be making thousands of dollars.

   

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