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Saw this girl swimming in the lake this morning.

Figured I'd catch her and show her to the kids. My first thought was "Oh well, I'm about to be made a pin cushion and be musked all over", but to my disbelief the snake never musked or even attepted to bite.

I guess there are SIX friendly northerns out there, lol.
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Joe

there's only one friendly northern, you just keep finding it over and over again.

it goes along with my belief that there's only one Buttermilk snake in Louisiana. It just moves so fast the I keep seeing it all over the state. Sometimes it's in two places at once and appears to be different sizes. Now that's fast.
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

I think the snakes just like you. The funny thing is, most of the aggressive northerns I've run into have been adults around 3 feet long. The hatchlings and juveniles have all been calm as black rat snakes. Ah well...live and learn.

Congrats on your find. The colors on that snake are beautiful.

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0.1 Banded California kingsnake - Zorro
1.0 Betta fish - Billy
0.0.3 White Cloud Fish
1.0 RES - Chopstick
0.1 Australian Shepherd - Jet

Most of the northerns I've run across have also been as calm as ratsnakes- meaning they'll bite the fire out of you if you give them half a chance. Where do you live that you have all these mellow snakes?

I just caught one sunning itself on my driveway in N.H.
About 18 inches. I was debating on keeping it for a while. Has anyone gotten one to eat unscented pinks? Just curious.