Snake identification requested

[Petunia D. Feeble]

I'm coming in late here, but it looks like good info. I'm in San Angelo and have seen plenty of them. Even had a rather large one let itself in through the doggie door not too long ago. Kitchen smelled for hours afterward.

It's pretty safe to handle. If you can catch it and relocate it to an unpopulated area you'll be doing it a kindness, but I'd probably just leave it alone. Snakes in the yard means less bugs and mice and frankly, if some genius decides to kill it it's really not much of a tragedy in a broad view.

For each one you see in the neighborhood there's a few dozen that you didn't.

Glad to see the concern though. I'd much rather have one snake than twenty mice. Even if it is a decidedly smelly one.

 

[moshow9]

It will find its own way home. Most likely it was hunkered down between the brick and the wall waiting for the big bad human to go away so it could go about its business of looking for bugs and mice.

Well this would appear to be the case as I haven't seen it since my last post in this thread, so it probably found its way home. But if it takes care of the black widows I sometimes get then it is always welcome here and can bring the whole family over for some good eating.