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Ooooh, it looks like a very healthy bull snake ( link )
I hear they taste like chicken, and they'll also eat your chickens... as well as any rats.

If you don't have any vermin on your property he'll probably find more favorable grounds. If you do, then I'd say you're pretty fortunate for having him around.
 
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yup, i like to keep them bull snakes around cause i sure as hell would rather get bit by one of them than a rattler, round here them bull snakes been known to kill rattlers, they eat alot of pesky mice as well.
 
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That milk snake as we call them here are very common but not that big, yeah they will eat a rattler like a black snake, the venom from from a rattler does not bother them.
 
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<span style="font-weight: bold"> There goes the neighborhood </span>

look on the bright side you could live in seclusion like me and have: 2x convicted pedophile, his drug addict son along with the sons welfare scamming whore girl with 10 kids from different dads move in down the road - at that point think <span style="font-weight: bold">"There goes the neighborhood"</span>
 
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So what kinda snake is it?
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Yes Sir...Big <span style="font-weight: bold">Bull Snake </span>right there!!!

If you ever get a chance to play with one push him around with a stick.....

...they coil just like a Rattler and wiggle the end of their tails giving off the impression that they are a rattler so you or any thing else will haul butt away......


they are about the only snake I won't kill.....just because they are a natural enemy to the rattler!!
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JCH</div><div class="ubbcode-body">if my wife saw something like that here we would be packing up and moving! </div></div>

Don't look too closely then. Pituouphis inhabit most of the more temperate southern US, including your neck of the woods.

It took over 100 mice to make him. I'd rather stumble on a snake than deal with dispatching that many mice.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tomekeuro85</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i have one just like that as a pet... and a baby one </div></div>
snake is not a pet. I don't know what is going on with people these days. They have pet as pig, donkey , tiger, lion , etc... 0_o" rat too.
 
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One of God's beautiful creatures. If people in the area are scared of it then by all means relocate the snake. But please do not kill such a fine specimen unless you are going to eat it, then by all means enjoy. But to kill it without utilizing it is a waste of the big guy's endeavors. Tom.
 
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When I worked on a F&W Refuge in MT. there were a few bull snakes that liked to live around the buildings... When you are not expecting to run into them they will sure startle you. I think they like scare people. I have seen them kill rattlers.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AXEMAN</div><div class="ubbcode-body">think about all the mice, rats and stuff he ate to get that big... </div></div>

Laffin....one of them bit my wife in the yard a couple of years ago and she would have liked to have died of fright. Local doctor told her she was good to go...just had a chewed up spot on her leg.
 
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My wife discovered a Bull snake curled up in the toilet of our vacation home and she totally freaked out. We spent that night in a motel on that trip.
Now, every time she goes to the restroom she takes our Labrador retriever with her...problem is, the dog is just as scared of snakes as she is.
 
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My parents live here in Havasu too, but on the edge of town, the guy across the street from them was in his garage and this HUGE rattlesnake came into it. Going for the back door really fast, on its six was a HUGE kingsnake! The battle was in the back yard, Kingsnake won.

Out hunting a few years ago, my buddy and I came across a rattlesnake by Kingman in the mountains, that was enormous. I went to grab my rifle, we were in the truck, and when I turned around with rifle, it had taken off at mach 2. I had no clue how fast they move, zero, nada, zip.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sean the Nailer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"There goes the neighborhood"




That's exactly what I said (seeing as I'm in Canada) after ya'll's last election.


-Ba-Dum-------Crash......

Problem is though, facts are proving me right.
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Yeh, while Europe is running as fast as it can to the right, America is moving as fast as it can to the red!
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gildoom</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My parents live here in Havasu too, but on the edge of town, the guy across the street from them was in his garage and this HUGE rattlesnake came into it. Going for the back door really fast, on its six was a HUGE kingsnake! The battle was in the back yard, Kingsnake won.

Out hunting a few years ago, my buddy and I came across a rattlesnake by Kingman in the mountains, that was enormous. I went to grab my rifle, we were in the truck, and when I turned around with rifle, it had taken off at mach 2. I had no clue how fast they move, zero, nada, zip. </div></div>

You see any of those baja rattlesnakes coming over the border illegally into the kingman area? neat snakes but they need to go to the back of the line, get their papers in order and come here legally!
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VIET</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> oh god not another snake... -_-" i hate em. either it's poison or not i will shoot it or chop it off. dude you gotta see this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZyrKaxnzcU how scary is this ? </div></div>

Snakes are great, spiders are what I hate(well I like tarantulas, wolf spiders and jumping spiders) Whole foods in Tulsa had an incident with a banana spider chasing people around the store hissing. Those things will kill through cunvulsions in 10 minutes! Whole foods imports non-insecticide bananas so the spiders come in and terrify all the hippies and yuppies.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pre64WINmarksman</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gildoom</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My parents live here in Havasu too, but on the edge of town, the guy across the street from them was in his garage and this HUGE rattlesnake came into it. Going for the back door really fast, on its six was a HUGE kingsnake! The battle was in the back yard, Kingsnake won.

Out hunting a few years ago, my buddy and I came across a rattlesnake by Kingman in the mountains, that was enormous. I went to grab my rifle, we were in the truck, and when I turned around with rifle, it had taken off at mach 2. I had no clue how fast they move, zero, nada, zip. </div></div>

You see any of those baja rattlesnakes coming over the border illegally into the kingman area? neat snakes but they need to go to the back of the line, get their papers in order and come here legally! </div></div>


haha!