It looks a lot like a common Garter snake, but it might be a Western Ribbon snake or a Plains Garter snake (they all look pretty similar). Any ideas?
We find a lot of box turtles and snapping turtles where we live and we have little lizards and lots of snakes up at the church, but this is the first snake I've seen in our yard. It's wonderfully educational for the boys when these critters show up.
It is important though when you see a well-fed snake around the house, to go back and do a hamster head-count.
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Grab a shovel, trap the head into the hard ground. Have Shannon come out with an exacto knife, cut the head off and have boys watch it keep trying to bite. While intertained with the head, slit snakes belly about eight inches down. The heart will still be beating. You can then go farther to check out the digestive tract.
Science lab on the driveway,
it's the homeschoolers way.
Deskis
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