[Jenn218]

Speaking of not knowing about snakes.....we talked w/ our forestry snake person not very long ago, because we had noticed several odd looking snakes. So, I was wondering if it was possible for the snakes to interbreed/crossbreed, etc. They said no, but I still do not know.....

For example....we had a HUGE snake that we thought was a garner snake, it was the black w/ greenish yellow stripe (what they should be), but it was huge....it was over 4ft long and about as thick round as a garden hose. AND it's head was big and a fat triangle look. The garner snakes I have researched online and in books, are skinny and perfectly rounded at the head. Nothing like this one. I had managed to wrangle it into a 5gallon bucket w/ lid, but the forestry man never came out, so my husband killed it.

Another occassion, we had what we thought was a hognose snake...they look so evil (also called a spreadinadder because when messed w/ their heads spread flat and wide like a cobra). They do everything to make you leave them alone (like hiss and play dead, etc). They are said not to be dangerous, but we found one that had a different looking head (a coppery sleek one like a cooperhead) and the colorings were different. I thought is was a copperhead and when I went to kill it (w/ a shovel) it's head flattened out and it tried to play dead. I killed it anyway and my husband looked at it when he got him and said that the markings and head were definitely a copperhead, but he wouldn't know why it would act like another snake.

It is crazy.....I say, you just never can be too careful!!!!