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By: Ryan’s Blog » Welcome Home, Fluffy!

Ryan’s Blog » Welcome Home, Fluffy! — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:39:56 +0000

[...] Yep: he’s back. I went out earlier today and, upon returning home, noticed a bag of mulch sitting up against the corner of my garage door. This would be just a foot or so away from the bag of phone books that used to be sitting by my mailbox, but which someone moved closer to the garage door after a few days. Who moved them I have no idea, but someone else – or perhaps the same person – has been gracious enough to leave me a bag of mulch. I’m guessing this is a not so subtle hint with regard to my (lack of) land-scaping, and I give them props – I like the passive-aggressive nature of the mulch far more than the boring letters I’ve gotten the last several months from the management company. Anyway…I’ve digressed. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:03:06 +0000

It’s definately not a coral snake…the head is much too large and pointy for that, not to mention the wrong coloring. You two make a cute couple, let me know what china pattern you choose.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:25:12 +0000

Thanks guys. Another reader said it was a Corn Snake, as well, so that’s probably what it is. To be honest – now that I’ve visited that FL Snakes link – it looks more to me like a FL Scarlet or a Scarlet Kingsnake, both of which are harmless. Then again, they are both sometimes confused with the Coral Snake, which is certainly *not* harmless. I don’t plan on getting close enough to see what order the colored rings are in, and I’m sure as hell not flipping the thing over to see if they encircle the entire body or stop at the underside.

I’m just gonna call him Fluffy and leave him the hell alone.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:15:11 +0000

Then again it could be a copperhead. Get a better shot of its head – It looks a little small and rounded to be a copperhead, but it’ll have little pits between it’s eyes and the tip of it’s mouth if it is.

Online guide to the snakes of Fla –

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/FL-GUIDE/onlineguide.htm

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:09:58 +0000

Or just pick it up and toss it outside. Looks like a common Corn Snake to me. Take a better picture!

By: Aeryn

Aeryn — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:49:15 +0000

OH my god, you have to get that thing out of there. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing it was in my garage and he probably isn’t enjoying it either.

Here are two places you can call:
Florida Wildlife Management
1-877-352-9453

Florida Wildlife Control
1-888-743-7287

Get on the phone and have someone else do the job! Really evil how his eyes glow in that picture, gah.