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    Juvenile snake bio6464's Avatar
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    attempted snake suicide...lol

    I am in the process of moving and took my son to cut the grass today. While cutting he yells "snake"...so I catch and relocate him/her to the other side of the yard by a treeline. When I let go it heads straight for the middle of the yard where my son's cutting. I grab it again to move it and notice pretty good scars...I assume caused by previous encounters with a weed trimmer. Since self destruction is on it's mind I grabbed it and added it to my group. I will post pics later, but I'm pretty sure it's a radix...beautiful garter either way.
    Jerry

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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Some just like living on the edge. Wonder what drew him/her back to the same area? I don't think the vibration of a weed eater yells out FOOD!
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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Quote Originally Posted by bio6464 View Post
    I am in the process of moving and took my son to cut the grass today. While cutting he yells "snake"...so I catch and relocate him/her to the other side of the yard by a treeline. When I let go it heads straight for the middle of the yard where my son's cutting. I grab it again to move it and notice pretty good scars...I assume caused by previous encounters with a weed trimmer. Since self destruction is on it's mind I grabbed it and added it to my group. I will post pics later, but I'm pretty sure it's a radix...beautiful garter either way.
    Jerry
    Heading back to a mower.
    That's not typical radix behavior.
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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Thats such an interesting behavior x) Post some pictures of him!
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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Here a a couple of quick pics...sorry for the image quality.
    Curious:

    Very red sides, head and especially tail:

    Belly gets redder as you move towards the tail, which is very red:

    Finally a pic of my big Eastern girl, shes HUGE...over 3 ft now and still growing:

    Jerry

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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Nice Eastern, Jerry!
    James.

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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Very nice red radix.
    Steve
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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    Lovely snakes
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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    beautiful radix!!
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    Re: attempted snake suicide...lol

    maybe it wanted to help edge ur grass...great snake...take it to a psyciatrist (forgive my spelling)
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