Anyone know what kind this is?
Looks kinda like a copperhead but the pattern isn't quite the same.
It is in a pond behind the house that the grandkids fish in.

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If it were up to my ol'lady it would be the dead kind.

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that would be a copper head and even if i wasnt it still needs to be dealt with,and with that yes i mean death.chad (only good snake is a dead snake)

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Yeah me too.........

The kids sent the cell pic to me while I was here at the shop.
Did a little research and I think it's this one, northern water snake.



They said it was acting real pissy.
Just was a bit concerned because it looked so much like a copperhead.

Here is a pic of a copperhead.
Look pretty close.

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yes it a water snake we have them in a stream in our back yard will not hurt you one bit the guy we bought the house from i shoot 3or 4 a year wife and kids dont like them . when you grow up in kentucky snake are like family

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kill all of them take no chances they maybe a copperhead impersonating a water snake to lure you in and then get you.you have heard of this animal conspiracy thing aint ya.chad

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That is some funny stuff...

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If it were my pond there'd be a RPG pointed at anything that remotely looks like a snake but.......

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Water snake for sure. We deal with them all the time.

all of you guys from west virginia must be a buch of sissies, all of my kinfolk down in west virginia are the same way. hell, i used to raise snakes when i was a kid. it wasnt too long ago, steve aka wreckincars had a big old black snake in his camper, the best part about that, the snake ate all of the mice. and if you think about it, a snake would be better than a watch dog, because if you tie him to the front porch, aint nobody gonna break in.
dave

i'm not scared of them just aint stupid enough to play all buddy buddy with them.if it even looks close to a poisonous one it dies and if it wasn't oh well it's just as dead.i work out in the woods everyday and actually today i saw a black snake eat a garter snake now that was cool and i could have then just killed it and got two snakes with one stone sorta speaking but i dont bother the non deadly ones that i know are not deadly.there is no great need for a copperhead or a rattle snake in society as far as i'm concerned,the world is not going to stop going around and around if we kill every last one of them.so i will do my part in trying to make these two snakes extinct if i can.i grew up on a farm and we had alot of black snakes that was always sneaking around but still it was a snake and i didnt play with'em and i sure the hell aint going to sleep with'em in my camper.sissy or not i aint going to get bit if i can keep from it.lol.chad

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That black snake in my camper was honestly 5 1/2 feet long, With all the mice that were in my camper it must have been a f'in feast for that snake. He worked ten times better than decon or any mouse trap. He was fairly friendly too. I picked him up and showed him to everybody around camp.
Like afterburnt, I had a few pet snakes over the years. There are kinda boring most of the time but it's cool to feed them. I don't understand the big fear of all snakes.
However a few pointers:
Snakes can strike up to a distance of two thirds there body length.
When they strike they are really really fast. Faster than you, I promise.
Their vision isn't real good, they see mostly in infra red, so they just see your heat signature, kinda like those things in Tremors 2 So if confronted by one and you don't have your trusty shotgun, throwing a jacket over them will pretty much blind them. Don't try and pick it up though.
They really are more scared of you than you are of them, well unless your a wuss.
Also copperheads and rattlers have a diamond shaped head and other non poisonous ones in this area of the country have a strait head.
Also (here's a big one) black snakes are know to prey on copperheads. So if you have black snakes around you are probably safe
But if that snake in the pic was near were my kids played I would probably kill it just to be safe.

One more thing:
Dave how are you gonna tie up the snake?

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that ones easy, you just buy a snake collar with the chain on it. i dont know why, they only have them at the porno shop and not at petsmart.
dave

I was wondering what those things were for

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