okay, so my house is pretty much surrounded by rocks , so my mother %26 i were moving them aroung %26 she found a baby one under a rock %26 killed it. she says it was a baby %26 if the baby snake's around , where's the mother? she said the snake's stomach was yellow %26 the snake was grey %26 had a yellow ring on it's head. is this a garter snake? i really dont know much about snakes. please help. thank you. very appericated.
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Garter snakes have a spot on the head that might look like a circle. Did the snake also have a stripe from head to tail ? If yes, then it was a garter snake.
Did the snake have a ring that looks like a collar ? If yes, then it was a Ring-necked snake. (Ring-necked snakes are full grown at about 12 inches)
Image of Garter snake:
http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/snake/fact%20...
http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~borfor/reptile...
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/images/colle...
Image of Ring-necked snake:
http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/bi...
http://orioles.esu8.org/research%20pages...
It was probably a garter snake
You should tell your mom not to kill them - they wont harm you or your pets and are actually helping you out by killing small animals and things that will ruin your garden/yard. They wont bite you unless you realllllyyyy annoy them!
If you see any others that are in the way, you can get tupperware or something and shoo them into it and let them free further away from your house.
sounds like a ringneck snake to me, they're actualy very common and non venemous. dont worry, if the mother is around it wont hurt you.
http://www.enaturalist.org/images/ringne...
sorry people but it really DOES NOT sound like a garter snake =]
It sounds like a garter snake. They hatch from eggs. You really should leave them alone. They eat mice and other vermin. Even the poisonous ones would rather take off than bite.
Courtnub seems to be correct. Please don't kill the snakes - irrational fear of snakes does no one any good. Very few people die from snake bites in the US every year (less than 10), meaning that you have no real cause to fear them. Live and let live.
That's not a baby snake, it's an adult Prairie Ringneck Snake. They're completely harmless. I used to catch them all the time when I was a kid. They eat bugs and worms. Next time you see one, just leave it alone.
That would be a ring neck. My dad killed one a couple of years ago becuz he didnt know what it was. Or if it was poisinous. They are completly harmless and can help alot. They eat all the rodents and bugs around the house. I would never kill a snake and i think you should tell her not to kill another snake. PLZ DONT KILL SNAKES.
Most likely a ring-necked snake, and they are completely harmless. There are many subspecies of the ring-neck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ring-necked...
They are a lot like cornsnakes- a common petstore snake.
Snakes only provide limited care for their young, for all species in North America, they provide little (if any) protection of the eggs and then ditch the nest once the eggs start to hatch. A newborn snake can survive completely on it's own, but rarely survive due to birds and other things eating them.
That is a Ring-neck Snake-completely HARMLESS! Senseless killing of a harmless animal like this makes my blood boil! The snake your mama killed was most likely an adult, since these snakes do not get large at all, and most are the size of a pencil. Snakes do not nurture or care for their young, so just because you find a baby snake(assuming it WAS a baby, which it most likely wasn't), this does not mean that there is a mother snake around. Baby snakes are independent and leave their mother as soon as they're born, or hatched, and in the case of those that hatch from eggs, most, with the exception of pythons, will never even see their mother at all. She will leave her eggs right after she lays them and let the heat of rotting plant matter incubate them.
Another thing you and your mama ought to know is that 78% of the people who are bitten by venomous snakes, are bitten while trying TO KILL THE SNAKE! If they hadn't tried to hurt the snake in the first place, they never would have gotten bitten. If you find a snake, and you aren't certain of what kind it is, the best advice is to walk away and leave it alone! I've kept snakes since childhood, and I have never, never ever had a snake come after me, not even venomous ones.
Why is somebody giving thumbs down to all the correct answers?
I agree, the yellow belly and ring around the neck pretty strongly suggest a ringneck!
My kids love them!
It could be a ring necked snake, it could be a baby yellow rat snake. it could even be a garter snake, it's too hard to say without seeing it. You don't really have to worry about the mother hanging around since they either lay their eggs or give birth (like garter snakes do ) %26 then leave their young totally on their own. None of these snakes pose any kind of a threat to pets or humans other than the suprise of seeing one if you don't expect to . If you or your family can avoid it, please don't kill them.
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