rat (aka chicken) snake?

also, if she's hanging around your house, you don't have a rat snake problem, you probably have a mouse or rat problem

ID?

Young racer. Your location will give away which subspecies because the young ones pretty much all look alike.

That would make it an eastern yellow-bellied racer.

Went into our crawl space to show my wife how to replace a water filter. She found this guy at the base of the water pressure tank. Our crawl space is encapsulated so he was lying on white plastic. This particular crawl space is 6' so it's easy to move around.

I grabbed a five gallon bucket and broom. Took him five miles down the road and let him go. Crazy dude started chasing me back to my truck. I used the bucket to encourage him back to the woods. I headed back to truck and here he comes again! I had the bucket lid and swatted him back a few times. The last time he had his bell rung and immediately turned and quickly slithered away.

This guy was only fourteen inches.

Now, my wife and I have no desire to enter into our other crawl spaces which are about 30" tall. Too old for that as it is.

I think I'm calling a snake pest control company and have them inspect all spaces. We had the encap done 9 months ago. There must be some gaps.

Thanks to this board I was calm and cool as I went about the business of capturing my first venomous snake. Not sure how I would have behaved had it been an adult! Yes, I knew it was a copperhead.

tunefx said:

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Went into our crawl space to show my wife how to replace a water filter. She found this guy at the base of the water pressure tank. Our crawl space is encapsulated so he was lying on white plastic. This particular crawl space is 6' so it's easy to move around.

I grabbed a five gallon bucket and broom. Took him five miles down the road and let him go. Crazy dude started chasing me back to my truck. I used the bucket to encourage him back to the woods. I headed back to truck and here he comes again! I had the bucket lid and swatted him back a few times. The last time he had his bell rung and immediately turned and quickly slithered away.

This guy was only fourteen inches.

Now, my wife and I have no desire to enter into our other crawl spaces which are about 30" tall. Too old for that as it is.

I think I'm calling a snake pest control company and have them inspect all spaces. We had the encap done 9 months ago. There must be some gaps.

Thanks to this board I was calm and cool as I went about the business of capturing my first venomous snake. Not sure how I would have behaved had it been an adult! Yes, I knew it was a copperhead.

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Meh, they can get through tiny gaps. Not very surprising honestly.

When they feel threatened they flatten out like that but can't seem to go past their vent.

Ummmmmm! I'm confused by this post. That appears to be a rat snake to me. Am i wrong?

I'm no expert, but that looks extremely non-venomous.

It's a chupacobra. You're doomed.

AGpops1923 said:

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Chat gpt says western hognose. But by the shape of the head and the slit pupils in the eyes. I was thinking it was poisonous.

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Chatgpt is 100% wrong. Western/Texas Rat Snake

Also, snakes are venomous, not poisonous

09 knows his snakes. What I'm surprised by is no regular poster called out the "poisonous vs venomous" part of the post.

Deepest apologies snake nerds, on the earth shattering faux pas. I truly hope you can recover from my mistake.

Edit to remove just a bit of my sarcasm.

AGpops1923 said:

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Deepest apologies snake nerds, on the earth shattering faux pas. I truly hope you can recover from my mistake.

Edit to remove just a bit of my sarcasm.

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You didn't edit enough of it.

I don't think anyone on here was personally offended that you made the mistake of poisonous vs venomous, but we did point it out for educational purposes. Just like telling you the snake you killed was harmless. Maybe next time you'll have more knowledge thanks to this thread?

Kind of weird to come to a thread for help, get the help you asked for + additional insight, and then get a little snarky when you get it.

I can confidently say that is NOT a snake.

I saw 18 new replies to this thread and got excited, assuming multiple new snake pics/post.

No real snakes, just some snake measuring going on...