Early this afternoon I decided to have a little fire to burn some of the few hundred cattle feed and seed sacks that have been stacking up in a garage over the Winter. Realized it would go faster if Mrs. Cow got in on the action. She left her comfy recliner to join me for a bit of amateur arson fun. She grabbed about the first three sacks in a pile and promptly discovered something she did not want to discover. SHRIEK!
I hated to ask, but, I did. It was a young black snake, no more than three feet long, chillin' out in the seclusion of the stacks of sacks. I gently persuaded it to move to a better spot and it cooperated. Took about 30 minutes before Mrs. Cow would return to moving sacks. She kept a pitchfork in a readily available location, just in case.
Where she grew up, the most likely snake to make an appearance was a rattlesnake.
I must give her credit for being a good sport about it and continuing to help me out
It looked a lot like this one.
This photo is from a Facebook site that Mrs. Cow follows for some insane reason.
Kansas Herpetological Society is the name of the site. There may be similar sites for other States. Many of the posts are from people asking what kind of snake, turtle, frog, toad, lizard or skink is being shown in the picture they are posting and the county, city or general area where the picture was taken. I view this from time to time and am amazed at the wide variety of snake names that are found in Kansas. As for me, the only good snake is a dead snake.
