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Hello there /an/, I've got a question.
This guy was sitting next to my back door, just hanging out, then slithered under the step. I live in Michigan, near Detroit, so this was really strange.

I'm just wondering, anyone know what kind of snake this is? Is it poisonous? I like snakes, but I have a 10 year old Boston Terrier who likes to lay in the backyard, so I'm a little worried.
>> Anonymous
Wow, usually there's only garden snakes around there.
>> Anonymous
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>>273686
I know, right?

Oh, by the way, OP here. Let's make this a snake thread as well as an "answer by question" thread.
This is not the snake I found earlier, but I had it on my comp.
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That looks like a type of garter snake, probably Easter Garter. The only poisonous snake in Michigan is the Massasauga rattlesnake.

If you live in North America, it's easy to identify poisonous snakes. They are all pit vipers except for coral snakes (rear-fanged), and coral snakes are shy and easy to identify. Pit vipers, including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, etc. all have a large triangular head, heat-sensing vents (their "pits") behind their nostrils, and vertical pupils.

http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Venomous-Snake
>> Anonymous
>>273689
*Eastern Garter, I mean. Anyway, if you see a venomous snake, don't kill it if you can avoid it. Too many people kill snakes "just in case", but even the poisonous ones are usually afraid of people and don't want to bite you. They'll just leave after a while if they feel you coming.
>> Anonymous
>>273689
No such thing as a poisonous snake.
Poison is injested, either by touch or eating it.

Snakes are VENOMOUS and have to inject venom.

If you touch a venomous snake you don't absorb venom into your blood stream.
>> Anonymous
>>273689
Oh wow, thank you so much, I appreciate it.
>> Anonymous
Fuck dude! Holy shit one of those got my brother by the artery and he fuckin exploded. Kill it. And go find the nest and kill them too. They make colonies of several million with one queen snake that's super poisonous.

What is that thing? Like 10? 12 feet? I've seen those fuckers get to 25.
>> Anonymous
>>273698
ingested.
>> Anonymous
>>273703
why did I lol?
>> Anonymous
>>273700
Well.
Fuck.

I'm tired of people "LOOKEEE HURR, DASSA POISON SNAKE JIMMY!"
>> Anonymous
>>273713
I lol'd, too. :D
>> Anonymous
>>273719
Well, people don't know. At least OP asked before killing it.
>> Anonymous
>>273749
OP here, I would never kill a snake unless I had no other choice. I wish I could pick this little guy up, actually.
>> Anonymous
>>273757
You can pick him up, but if he's big enough, or freaked enough, he could bite you with his tiny snake teeth. Personally, I worry less about snake bites than I do their musk. A lot of snakes release a horrible musky scent when they get scared; it sticks to your hands and reeks like death.
>> Anonymous
>>273769
It sticks to you because it's actually a fine spray of fecal material and stuff from their cloaca. eeww. :x

Also related: Once I picked up a little green snake I found on the road, and it cut my finger with its face. True story! Freaked me out.
>> Anonymous
cant remeber the name of it but it is not harmful to you, unless it bites you ^_^ it will hurt a little thats all
>> Anonymous
its a garter snake
its completely harmless
but in michigan...?
i thought these things were more native to canada...
>> Anonymous
>>274391
Nope. When I lived in Minnesota and Michigan, I caught them all the time.
>> A.r. !!1J3JRobqN2a
I wish I saw more snakes around here. Unfortunately, I live in the Bible Belt of the South where any and all intelligence is pretty scarce, hence most of the snakes are killed on sight :/ Though I have at least one friend with two pets snakes: a ball python and a hognose. She says the hognose is adorable.