Rat Snake

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terruth snake are vary cool and a lot in the world 10/19/2011
jonathan h Awesome! Cool facts! Awesome-st website ever to find facts about things! 10/3/2011
sara i found a snake in my house but dont know what kind it was 8/7/2011
Sherry Malone I think I may have killed a rat snake by accident last night.
It struck at my cat then my dog and then me, so I got mad and killed it.
When I looked at it in the daytime today, it was 4 ft. long and had large round eyes and it's head was not pointed but sort of squared.The snake had a whitish/yellow belly.He was really fat.He was a gayish brown on the topside.I have no idea if this was his natiral color or not.He seemed to have some splotches in the background but very faint.I live in East Texas.Can you help me identify this snake?		 4/4/2011
ali well i keep snakes myself corns,pythons,rats,boa,gopher ,well i think the part saying they are ill tempered etc was an unfair comment snakes any snkes may bite if they feel theatened but from my experiance with them ive never in all my years with snakes been bitten not once,kindness and patience and understanding your snake is all thats needed 12/1/2010
brennen i have a corn snake, everglas rat, black rat all elaph obsleta sorry can't spell it but you should not give to much info to public people don't know how beautiful rat snakes are 10/21/2010
man2 ya he has a cool corn snake i like your site i have a rat snake and other snakes it is really cool like all of his i like your detail in the site 10/21/2010
joe s nice site i know alot
about snakes		 10/21/2010
man I KNOW alot about rat snakes but need more info 10/21/2010
jasmine wow that is instersting facts i didn't know that thank u for telling me this 9/29/2010
Stevi I thought it was very helpful lots of interesting facts, but just a little more detail with it enviromental needs... 4/28/2010
april I have a taiwanese beauty rat snake its a get pet and he watches every move I make and he does not like me cats looking at him. he is also very strong snake he goes straight up in the middle of his tank then goes around the top then back down with out falling down. 4/11/2010
Bert Simpson Comment in respect of this paragraph - "The rat snakes are rather ill-tempered and aggressive by nature and are always ready to defend themselves. Their defense mechanism includes coiling up, raising their head, striking continuously at anything that they can get their fangs to and vibrating their tail. This vibrating nature of the snake often leads to the misidentification that these are rattlesnakes"

With respect, that is nonsense. They cannot be misidentified for a rattlesnake unless the person concerned was blind. Also, they are not aggressive, hence their attractiveness as a pet, particularly for beginners. Perhaps the author is a beginner himself?		 2/8/2010
manuel Not koo 9/4/2009
Tom Dunkerton On the whole Rat Snakes are NOT ill tempered, but some exhibit individual inclinations to defend or flee when approached. I've NEVER been bitten by a Yellow Rat or Black Rat Snakes and have onlt been bitten twice by a Red Rat Snake out of a great many that I've handled. Just my opinion. 3/28/2009
Joel I need to know how many eggs those a rat snake lay 2/15/2009
kathrin beatiful snake
where is it comon
met a few
what reaction to human presencse is comon		 11/19/2008
donisha pictures but love it 11/17/2008
donisha jackson i love this website! 11/17/2008
ernie curtis i have a mexican bard rat snake we are finding it harde to understand wath is going on with him as we have to hand feed him a he will not take his food by him self anny more it is also nesseary for us to help him shead as he seams to have lost the enegery to do this by him self he is now 9 years old and know matter wath we do he keeps losing weight and we are realy worried as anny one we have enquired to here in ireland can not tell us how to look after him properley or are wee doing somthing wrong we would be verry greatfull if you could help us look after our snake properley yours ernest curtis 11/17/2008
hayley i think it is very good info thank you for it...love ya 6/19/2008
tanjila begum i think that rat snakes are very intrestings snakes and i would like to find out more about them. 5/2/2008
danielle this description on the rat snake is very useful in many ways it has helped with my gcse and also how they live and now i know they dont like humans im not worried 3/18/2008
ronaldo give pictures 3/1/2008
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