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This Black rat snake was discovered in a Hospital parking lot. Animal control was called to effect capture. The animal control officer (a friend of mine) figured she had another garter snake alert. When she arrived it was nothing she had ever seen before in this area. By now 25 or 30 people were gathered and started the copper head alert. The officer assured them it was not a copper head. She hooked and secured the snake into a pillow case then brought it to my office (taught her how to wrangle snakes safely).

He or she has been placed into isolation. Checked his bite (twice) cleaned him up. Now he is ready for reintroduction somewhere safer than or local Hospital.

Glad she got to him before the unruly mob did or this might have been a different story.

Dann..

Similar story here was involving an Eastern Milk and a gas station of frantic people sure it was a rattler. Don't ask how they can be this ignorant.
News camera's showed up. Just then a guy walked over, picked up the snake and released it well into a nearby hay field. When asked he explained that it was obviously a Milk and they were all idiots.
I think it would have been more fun to have them run the story and get all the phone calls and PUBLIC critiques. Oh well. At least the animal got away clean.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Sonya,
I just don’t get it. People know more about chewing GUM than the animals on this planet.

Well if I can’t save them all. I will have to settle for one at a time.

Dann