Pine snake pics

[piranhaking]

Not sure what type of pine snake it is, anyone have any idea?

[JLC]

I'd guess Northern Pinesnake. Very handsome!!

[piranhaking]

Thanks. I know one thing, it can out hiss any snake I've ran across. I've never heard one so loud and deep in my life.

[JLC]

Thanks. I know one thing, it can out hiss any snake I've ran across. I've never heard one so loud and deep in my life.

I'll bet! The larger Pituophis snakes can be very intimidating! They're awesome!

[piranhaking]

Intimidating to say the least. To a few people that were in the room when it hissed at me down right scary It took a while working around that guy before i would handle him. I actually got up the nerve to hold the 7 foot redtails before that guy (they were nice, but he tends to hiss and squirm a little until he's out of the cage and i dont like getting bit )

[ErikH]

Pine and gopher snakes are good for hissing. They also will rattle their tails in substrate or against the side of an enclosure and sound like a rattlesnake. My son's Sonoran gopher used to do this all of the time, along with striking with a closed mouth. He has tamed down considerably with age and once per week handling.

Do you use a hook to take him out or do it by hand?

By the way, he is gorgeous!

[MedusasOwl]

Beautiful! I love the cute "So There!" looks on their faces! A pit is on my list too, though probably a gopher. Gotta love a nice big colubrid!

[jjspirko]

I've not dealt with many Gophers but Bull and Pines I find all the time (bulls now pines in the past).

My experience even with adult wild ones is once you pick them up and are gentle they generaly don't bite, there is always the exception! And then can give a good one but their bark (hiss) is always worse then their bite.

Pits have a membrane that allows them to give what might be the loudest hiss of any snake anywhere. Babies are CUTE though when they do it sounds almost like a quiet sneeze.

Lots of time with babies you try to pick the up, they hiss, strike, tail rattle etc. They are just little bad a$$ dudes at leat they think they are then you pick them up and they are like, ok cool and all chill, put them down and it all starts again.

Great snakes, excellent as adults for kids programs and stuff like that.

[piranhaking]

That"s just how this one is. It acts all big and bad, but once its out of the cage its no trouble at all. Funny that you mention they are good for snake programs, because this one is actually going to one of our zoology classes tomorrow as part of a show

[Schlyne]

Pine and gopher snakes are good for hissing. They also will rattle their tails in substrate or against the side of an enclosure and sound like a rattlesnake.

Those are the main reasons why I love gopher snakes

My little guy has finally stopped rattling every time I walk by, but he still does it a lot. He is a sweetheart outside of his cage.

If i had some means of recording the sound, I'd host it somewhere.