Quote Originally Posted by jeffnme View Post
I was at a cookout a Hybrid Garage a few weeks ago and someone said there was a snake so I ran over to look at it and when I picked it up and that suckra tried to eat my face off! lol Well...not really but the pics that were taken look like he was!

I am not sure what it was...looks kinda like the one your hubby found except WAY smaller.

here is one of the pics...DON'T LAUGH!
Great pic, Meme! Too bad you can't see the snake too well, but you know he's in motion!

Quote Originally Posted by hoo-t View Post
I caught the one in the grocery store on July 10 of this year. There is a pic in the "Herping in the local grocery store" thread. I didn't get any pics of the one I caught at my uncle's cabin. I wish I had, he was impressive! Rat snakes are generally pretty defensive in the wild. They will put up a big show, posing to strike, hissing, rattling their tail, and generally won't hesitate to bite. The big one that I caught never did any of that. I even thought maybe he was an escaped pet, because he was so calm. The little one from the store, though, was a different story! He did (and still does) it all, tail rattling and hissing as loud as any of my bps! You probably already know this, but corn snakes are actually rat snakes, just a different subspecies. I've heard they can be pretty nasty in the wild, too. I had a corn snake for several years and was only bitten once, and that was a stupid feeding error. The other subspecies of rat snakes, from what I've heard, are more unpredictable in their behavior. I really haven't spent a whole lot of time trying to "tame" the grocery store snake, as I've always thought I'd return him to the wild.

Steve
Yeah, I didn't know BRS'es could make all that racket. It blew my mind.