What picture?

 

The copperhead's saddles, on the other hand, are most narrow on the back and wider on the sides. They have an hourglass shape. Lastly, a copperhead's belly is unmarked and cream colored. A milk snake's white belly is marked with black squares that create a checkerboard effect.
It sounds to me like you have a Milk snake.

 

I'm not sure what it is, but it's not a copperhead. A copperhead's head is the color of a penny with no stripes, also venomous snakes have slit like eye pupils . (vs. round)

 

Grab him and hold him still while you look in his eyes. If the pupils are elliptical he is a poisonous snake, if the pupil is round, he is non-poisonous.

 

Most of us don't want to ask questions while the snake is actively nearby - when in doubt.....

 

Yep, it's pretty cold out now already and I don't think he'll get far so I'll release him tomorrow. I always forget the eyes, that is a very easy ID. These are round as can be. For some reason when I see a copperhead, I know right away. When I'm guessing what it is, it's never harmful.

 

I don't care what it is!!!! KILL IT I HATE SNAKES!!!! :sign0020:

 

I don't care what it is!!!! KILL IT I HATE SNAKES!!!!

Yup, he'da got the mower treatment in my yard...

 

Let it go free.
There may be a couple less mice to chew on your car in the future if you turn it loose.

Don

 

A good snake is a dead snake in my book:scared0016:

 

Aw he's just a little bitty thing, I know of a little pile of leaves that I can cover him up with till he finds his old home. If it were a copperhead, I'd probably kill it although the web site I was looking on says not to kill them either. Sorry but I have 2 stupid dogs, 1 was already bit by a copperhead and dang that vet bill was high. If it weren't for the dogs I'd let copperheads live too. Good mousers.

As far as the vet bill, well I learned a good lesson. The fricken emergency pet center in Knoxville isn't the place to go. If she gets bit again give her all the benadryl I can (I've got liquid gels that I can peirce and squirt in her mouth), then go to the vet and let them give her benadryl and pain relief intravenously. 99.9% of the time no anti venom is needed. It was $670 for anti venom and that wasn't nearly the whole bill!

 

Its a cycle the snakes are there for a reason they may be helping in keeping other animals from causing harm

 

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't come back, it never was". ....But you should kill it anyway.

 

You guys aren't exactly into nature much are you? Just a vibe I'm sensing.

 

Doesn't look like a Copperhead to me. The head looks different to me. Let it go. Although venomous, Net says let it go too .Mike

 

Now that's a copper head for sure.

 

I don't think the round pupil versus the slit pupil is the differentiation between poisonous and non poisonous.

It may appear to be like that in the US, but there are other snakes with round pupils that are poisonous in the snake world, and other constrictors that have the slit but are not poisonous.

If I had a copperhead, and the internet said to let it go, that would indicate that I was actually touching it..... the internet should say, just leave it be, or go get a shovel, cuz they work great at turning a snake into pieces. :sign0020:

 

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I rarely ever kill snakes even poison ones. I caught a little pigmy rattler and gave it to my eldest son. He is the park super at Lake Charles State Park. I started a thread on this forum about it a while back. He has the snake on display in the nature center. He has other snakes & a alligator also. The one snake I don't like is a cotton mouth they are aggressive. I had a cow die from a cotton mouth bite. I don't know why but where you have goats the snakes are fewer. Maybe its because they eat lots of the type browse that field mice & pack rats eat. Also they keep the cover reduced and hawks & owls can catch the rodents & snakes?