Multiple Road Kill.

[nastygunz]

I saw this snake...I think it is a Ribbon Snake?...dead on the road with a whole bunch of babies it was carrying:

[dog dropper]

Multiple roadkill indeed.

[FinsnFur]

That is NASTY!...no pun intended.
What'ya mean carrying? as in literally?

I wonder if they were following her or they got squeezed out. I dont know how that works for a snake.

[nastygunz]

The female snake actually has a short claw which it drags along the ground creating a vibration which the young snakes follow..so technically she wasnt carrying them...but they were trailing her...hence the group tire intervention.

[slagmaker]

Anyway, it's dead now and a buzzard will most lilkey eat it.

[pitw]

  The guy sure drove back and forth enough times.
   I'd done it a couple more for good measure though.

[FinsnFur]

  Barry   

[JohnP]

Just another case of profiling, if that was a deer, moose or elephant nobody would of thought of running over it!  The poor thing just wanted to get "across the road" to make a better living for its family.  Why can't we all just get along?

[coyotehunter_1]

John, I agree but sometimes SQUISH just happens.

Like the rest of the critters on earth, snakes have their place in nature. Over time I've exterminated a few pit vipers (when needed) but I still go out of my way to catch and relocate *most snakes (and turtles) I find caught on the highway.  






*That is unless Bop is in the truck at the time.... then the snake is on it's own.  

[vvarmitr]

I think JP is listening too to many anti-Gov. Brewer people. 

[pitw]

  Why can't we all just get along?

Cause them insufferable, ugly, spade headed and extra toothed long worms just don't fit in my life scheme .

[coyotehunter_1]

Hey Barry.... you sound a lot like Bopeye.

He and I were out calling coyotes one day and ran across a fair sized black snake (non-poisonous). Until that day I had no idea he suffered such a severe dislike for snakes. I reached down and picked the snake up to examine it... turned around with the snake and Bop was gone... don't tell me fluffy guys can't run.

   

[nastygunz]

jimbo did you really believe the part about the snake dragging its claw?...

[pitw]

I reached down and picked the snake up to examine it...
   

If'n it had been me with you and I was packing a gun the chances of that being your last act in life would have been very high99.99999999998%.  Just being close would get you killed by friendly fire .

[FinsnFur]

No, actually I didnt. 
I just passed the question as going unknown.

But did you know that female lions get their young to follow by dancing her tail in front of them as she is walking?

[coyotehunter_1]

I reached down and picked the snake up to examine it...
 

If'n it had been me with you and I was packing a gun the chances of that being your last act in life would have been very high99.99999999998%.  Just being close would get you killed by friendly fire .

Barry... I promise, anytime I'm standing near you, I'll never even say the word snake.

[vayotehowler]

snakes do have a spur on either side near their vent(CLOACHA) said ala crazy croc wrasslin bloke (rip steve) looks like a finger naill someone cut off and stuck in its side

[nastygunz]

No, actually I didnt. 
I just passed the question as going unknown.

But did you know that female lions get their young to follow by dancing her tail in front of them as she is walking?

Women do that too...

[Bopeye]

Hey Barry.... you sound a lot like Bopeye.

He and I were out calling coyotes one day and ran across a fair sized black snake (non-poisonous). Until that day I had no idea he suffered such a severe dislike for snakes. I reached down and picked the snake up to examine it... turned around with the snake and Bop was gone... don't tell me fluffy guys can't run.
 

Chet's telling secrets again.    I do have a mild dislike for slithering, serpents. AND I did consider what Barry proposed. 

[nastygunz]

This little beauty is still alive and well