It was Christmas morning at about 10:30. We were just taking a break from playing with our new toys to make some breakfast, when the phone rings. It's my mother in law at the other end. No big surprise, I figure she just wants to wish us merry Christmas and find out what Santa brought everybody, but instead of a holiday greeting she yells into the phone, "There's a snake in our yard!" I get my father in law on the phone who has the snake cornered to keep it away from the dogs. He knows enough to tell me that it not a venomous one, but it is 4ft long and mostly dark colored, then he says "It looks like a Boa." Ok, probably not, but anything's possible. They live about 15 to 20 minutes from us. After getting all three of us dressed, and thanks to light holiday traffic and some "brisk" driving we get there in about 10 minutes. My father in law still has the snake cornered and I immediately know it's a Rat Snake, so I bag it and take it away. My mother in law is scared of snakes and wants it gone. Now I have two rat snakes to release in the spring.
This one has much more orange color then the other one I have right now. Do get they get more orange or red then this one?
