Those crazy snakes in Wyoming...

[MedusasOwl]

Amarin was telling some folks in a chatroom about her new Brooks Kingsnake, and this conversation ensued... This guy's snake info just keeps snowballing... um, WOW... Names have been changed to protect the ignorant! The ignorance is pretty average at the start but stick with him... his story gets better.

Chatter #1: (oh and gratz on the new snake thing.)
Amarin: ^_^
Jimmy: what kind of snake?
Amarin: Brooks kingsnake
Jimmy: hmm sounds dangerious
Amarin: A kingsnake?
Jimmy: thought they were poisonous
Amarin: Kingsnakes are harmless! Absolutely sweethearts
Amarin: Now king COBRAS are poisonous...
Jimmy: well yeah
Amarin: And kingsnakes may EAT some poisonous snakes...
Amarin: They eat rattlesnakes
Jimmy: so they are related to the Boa
Jimmy: of course we have to watch out with the Boa's and gardener snakes around here, they be cross breeding with the rattlers
Amarin: What?
Jimmy: yup we been getting poisonous Boa's
Amarin: Kings aren't in the boa family at all.
Amarin: And there's no such thing as a poisonous boa. Boas and garter snakes and rattlers CAN'T crossbreed.
Jimmy: yeah tell that to their DNA
Amarin: That's like trying to crossbreed a pigeon and a chicken.
Jimmy: they have done the DNA testing on them, they've found Boas and diamond back rattlesnacks crossed
Amarin: Who's done DNA testing?
Jimmy: not sure who it is, most likely the Game and Fish
Amarin: Is there an article out there on this?
Amarin: If there is I'd love to see it.
Jimmy: not that i know of, atleast i don't know of one on the internet
Amarin: Well, where'd you hear about this? What state?
Jimmy: Wyoming
Jimmy: my mom found out about it at one of the City Council meetings
Amarin: So you're telling me that the boas and garter snakes and the diamondbacks in wyoming are all crossbreeding.
Jimmy: well not willingly, they tend to nest together in the winter though because it gets so damn cold here
Jimmy: but they are finding Boas with fangs and poison sacks but no rattles, and rattlesnakes with no fangs or poison sack but rattles
Chatter #1: oh come on, just admit the snakes up there are all horny perverts.

The conversation moved on to other things from there, but Amarin's brain is still recovering. My favorite bit?

Amarin: So you're telling me that the boas and garter snakes and the diamondbacks in wyoming are all crossbreeding.
Jimmy: well not willingly

[steveo]

ROFLMFAO!

[stangs13]

Your all wrong!!!! There's no such thing as a poisonous snake!!!

[MedusasOwl]

Wyoming Garterattleboas are totally poisonous. You don't want to know what happens if you eat one. :eek: Just ask Jimmy!

[JLC]

That's pretty funny. What amazes me is when people will believe something their mom heard from their cousin's boss who was talking to a guy who knew a city councilman in a town that once found a garter snake in the middle of downtown.....but when someone with some real credible knowledge tells them something different, they won't believe it. It confounds even the most minute sense of logic.


And where the heck did the rattlesnakes find boas in Wyoming anyhow??? That's what I'd like to know.

[jknudson]

I'd love to see a locality of boa that could live in WY!

What a joke!

[jknudson]

Here in MN we're having a problem with Mousders.

[wildlifewarrior]

I hear something similar to this whole hybridization, but with pythons, cotton mouths, and queen snakes in IL. they look like pythons with white mouths and little crowns on their heads, some have robes and a smaller snake that follow it around which is assumed to be the jester LMAOLMAO!!!! but to think it was talked about at a local town council meeting is SCARY!!!!!!!


wildlifwarrior

[wildlifewarrior]

That is scary on so many levels. HAHAHA. their only natural predators in the wild are griffons

Here in MN we're having a problem with Mousders.

[Blu Mongoose]

Here in MN we're having a problem with Mousders.

That is so cute!! And I'm staying the hell out of Wyoming.!!!!