death of snake

[Dameco13]

As I was riding my bike a couple days ago i came across a cat. In the cat's mouth was a snake. Being an owner of a snake I felt that I didnt want the snake to be eaten. I scared the cat and it dropped the snake. The snake slithered to the side of the path. I looked at it for a while and it was still squirming. I picked it up because after about 15 minutes of examining it from a short distance I noticed it was an all black Garter Snake with a dark gray underside. I looked at it and it made me wonder. - Are there all black garter snakes in Georgia- By the time i texted ChaCha to ask them they said there were many different Garter Snakes in Georgia. I looked at the snake once again and it stopped moving. I knew that it was dead. I picked up leaves and placed them over its body. I placed a stick in the ground in front of it and thought to my self - What if that had been Zippy (my garter)- Has anyone ever had a simular experience? What did you do differently?

[BUSHSNAKE]

kill the cat

[Jeff B]

lol!!!
let the cat finish eating the snake, theeeeennnn kill the cat, have some respect Joe the cat desives to enjoy it's last meal.

[ssssnakeluvr]

Doesn't sound like a garter snake to me. melanistic eastern garters are all black, belly and all, with a white patch on the chin

[BUSHSNAKE]

i was thinking black racer myself, but you never know

[Dameco13]

I closly looked at its head and underside and it was a garter and i made a mistake in the desciption it wasnt a dark gray coloring i kinda let myself wander. Im a writer/drawer. it was just all black

[ssssnakeluvr]

sounds more like a black racer....

[mustang]

coluber constrictor

[infernalis]

this is my boy Toby... a black racer I raised up from a hatchling.

Did it look like him??

[wolfpacksved]

depends on size of the snake. juvenile black racers are not black, they have blotches along the back and a fair amount of speckling on the belly. a pic would have been nice. there are unicolored species, worm snakes, earth snakes, black rats, black racers, etc etc.

@infernalis : just curious. how old is Toby? nice looking specimen.