What to Do If You Encounter A Snake

North Carolina Wildlife Commission gives tips

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With warmer weather finally here, more and more snakes are coming out and being spotted in peoples yards, along nature trails and many other places. The North Carolina Wildlife Commission offers tips on what to do if you should encounter a snake in the wild. First thing they stress is that you should not panic, snakes will not harm you if you simply leave the alone and walk away from them. They only bite or attack if they feel threatened. They also stress that you should absolutely not attempt to kill any snake because that is when most injuries occur.

One North Carolina man had a surprise encounter with a large snake in his own yard. The man was reaching for what he thought was a garden hose in his backyard and realized it was a large black snake. Luckily, the snake was identified as the non-venomous eastern-rat snake, part of the constrictor family. The snake was about six feet long, on the larger end for what a rat snake can grow to.

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See A Snake? NC Wildlife Commission Offers Advice

Now that the weather is warm, more people are starting to see snakes in their backyards, along trails, and in the woods. However, seeing a snake outside is no cause for alarm — if you see one, don’t panic.

Leave it alone and walk away.

That’s the advice biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission give to the hundreds of people who call the N.C. Wildlife Helpline each year, typically in the spring, wanting to know what to do about the snake slithering in their yard. Read more

Summary: The North Carolina Wildlife Commission offers tips on what to do if you should encounter a snake in the wild. First thing they stress is that you should not panic, snakes will not harm you if you simply leave the alone.

Man reaches for hose, realizes it’s very big snake in NC yard

Confusing a black snake for a black garden hose nearly got Brian Walsh bitten outside his North Carolina home. But he considers himself lucky. Walsh says he realized his mistake just in time — a foot away — and the snake wasn’t venomous.

Still, the incident has earned the Huntersville family a level of respect on social media, after they shared photos on a Snake Identification Facebook page with 170,000 members. Words like “big,” “huge” and “enormous” have been used to describe what was eventually identified as an eastern rat snake, a constrictor that suffocates its prey. See more

Summary: One North Carolina man had a surprise encounter with a large snake in his own yard. The man was reaching for what he thought was a garden hose in his backyard and realized it was a large black snake.