Garter snakes have been discovered to be venomous. Fortunately, it is not toxic to humans.
We’ve decided it was a grass snake 
.
As in: snake-in-the-grass!
It was a kiss-my-ass snake.
Glad it wasn’t a snow snake.
Why? You ask?..they crawl up your ass and freeze you to death
Wow, WTF??!!
You alarm me @Bullitt
What!!?
@Beckdawrek, it was that snow snake description that had my eyes popping open.
Sounds not too pleasant.
Old joke, my Daddy used to tell.
Of course we had snake-pocolypse last year.
Besides little Kermit(the green snakes name) I’ve seen very few snakes this year.
So glad with the kids and extra snake-bait…erm… .I mean Chihuahuas around.
When my children were young they actually swam in the pond. Almost daily throughout the warm months. I never worried about snakes. I worried more about water safety.
Now-a-days I wouldn’t wade out ankle deep. I’ve seen loads of cotton-mouths swimming on the surface. I’ve also seen snakes under the dock. I check carefully everytime I walk out on it.
I owned a couple of caught in the wild gopher snakes and was nipped a time or two it usually involved in feeding time shenanigans
One where I dropped dinner in and instead of the usual premeal chase the meal seen said snake squeaked and dropped dead of a heart attack (apparently its a somewhat common reaction by rodents )
all reptile knew was he smelled dinner and was coming over to eat
well I was told ta the time that wasn’t a good thing and to remove the deceased rodent as soon as possible
so when snake went to grab dinner he grabbed me instead and it only took a sec for him to realize that wasn’t what he wanted and he coiled up in a corner hissing rather perturbed …
the second was where the other snake’s dinner decided to fight back and took a couple of nips of reptile before being eaten and I had to make sure it wasn’t bleeding …and touched the bite and he nipped me in an Ouch that hurted sort of way … and then dispatched rodent with more violence than usual …
they didn’t feel any worse than when our cat bit me but it did itch for a bit …
@Beckdawrek, your Daddy had a special sense of humor.
Yep. He had a million of 'em.
I used to catch garter snakes up at the cottage to show my daughter (who liked them). Once I was able to catch a large blacksnake, about 3-4’ long. It promptly coiled itself around my arm and daughter decided she wasn’t going to hold this one, but we were both impressed by how absolutely glass-smooth its belly scales were.
I saw a huge black snake on the outside of the chicken coop. Since I only got 3 eggs this morning, I assume he ate his fill.
Thieving bastard.
I let the ‘hobo’ chickens out and they ran around the coop and started worrying the snake. Dumb birds.
Heed warning! Sneaky Snake drinks root beer!
~VOW
As the bold and fearless Dionysius of his era, I’m sure Cecil has heard “bite me” many times. This may be the first time it was a sincere invitation, however.
I turned over a feed pan tonight and saw this:Black widow
I wasn’t bitten. I flipped it back and let her be.
StG
Gahh!!?!
So, was you ever bit by a dead bee?
Does a dead wasp count?Bees don’t bite