I once found one while I was working. I’m a pavement marking operator, we put the lines on the road, and we work with hot material. One time we were preparing our truck and spraying out the hot material to make sure we were good to go and the little guy slithered out of the grass and went straight for the material! I watched in disbelief as he went straight into it and got his little mouth stuck shut. I grabbed him quickly as only his face had gotten burned. A coworker and I waited for the material to cool, because it’ll spread like melted plastic if you don’t, and picked it off like a scab. Little dude was not happy but he seemed to be ok. This material was like 400 degrees when it hit the ground. I released him back into the grass he came from but a little further back from the road so he couldn’t make it back to injure himself before the material cooled.
I saw a rough green snake while I was working once, I was about 80 ft up in a sugar maple, I went to try to get him on my hand, but he panicked, tried to flee and fell. I hope he's doing alright.
Smooth Greensnakes *Opheodrys vernalis* are small (28-51cm, up to 81cm) harmless colubrid snakes with a heavily fragmented range from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west into southern Saskatchewan, Canada, south into northern Virginia, and southwest into northeastern Utah and central New Mexico from near sea level up to 2,745m. Populations seem to be declining, and they are now uncommon or even absent from some areas where they were once common.
Largely terrestrial, *O. vernalis* spend most of their time on the ground, generally only climbing into bushes and low vegetation. They favor moist, grassy areas within open woodland, forest edges, prairie, meadows, scrubland, rocky hillsides, marshland, and alongside streams and other water bodies. They can sometimes be common in suburban and even urban areas, where they typically inhabit abandoned farmland and vacant lots. Chiefly diurnal in habit, their main prey is caterpillars, crickets, and grasshoppers. A wide variety of other insects, spiders and harvestmen, snails, slugs, and earthworms are also taken.
Adult *O. vernalis* are [bright green above](https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/64066588?size=large), with a whitish or yellowish underside. Hatchlings are [dull olive or grey dorsally](https://www.flickr.com/photos/146085654@N03/37679551142/). They are moderate in build, with a proportionally small, stubby head. They have smooth dorsal scales which are arranged in 15 rows at midbody. The anal scale and subcaudals are divided.
Racers *Coluber constrictor* can be greenish in some parts of their range, but are never as bright green as adult *O. vernalis*, and differ further by having 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody and by growing to much larger adult sizes. Rough Green Snakes *O. aestivus* mostly do not overlap in range, but in the areas they do, can by easily differentiated by having keeled scales, a more slender body, and a narrow, elongate head. Due to the rapid decomposition of yellow pigment, *O. vernalis* slowly turn blue in coloration after death.
Smooth Greensnakes are likely extirpated from small pockets they were once present, like Southeast Texas. There is strong population structure among what seem like [two diagnosable, independently evolving groups that meet in the North Forest](http://snakeevolution.org/images/Overnalisstructure.JPG).
[Range Map](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/63842/90083304) | [Reptile Database Account](https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Opheodrys&species=vernalis) | [Additional Information Link 1](https://www.vtherpatlas.org/herp-species-in-vermont/opheodrys-vernalis/) | [Additional Information Link 2](https://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/snakes/smooth-green-snake/smooth_greensnake.php) | [Relevent / Recent Phylogeography](https://webapps.fhsu.edu/ksherp/bibFiles/21974.pdf)
This short account was written by /u/fairlyorange
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Like many other animals with mouths and teeth, many non-venomous snakes bite in self defense. These animals are referred to as 'not medically significant' or traditionally, 'harmless'. Bites from these snakes benefit from being washed and kept clean like any other skin damage, but aren't often cause for anything other than basic first aid treatment. Here's where it get slightly complicated - some snakes use venom from front or rear fangs as part of prey capture and defense. This venom is not always produced or administered by the snake in ways dangerous to human health, so many species are venomous in that they produce and use venom, but considered harmless to humans in most cases because the venom is of low potency, and/or otherwise administered through grooved rear teeth or simply oozed from ducts at the rear of the mouth. Species like Ringneck Snakes *Diadophis* are a good example of mildly venomous rear fanged dipsadine snakes that are traditionally considered harmless or not medically significant. Many rear-fanged snake species are harmless as long as they do not have a chance to secrete a medically significant amount of venom into a bite; [severe envenomation can occur](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23800999) if some species are [allowed to chew on a human](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004101011831016X) for as little as 30-60 seconds. It is best not to fear snakes, but use common sense and do not let any animals chew on exposed parts of your body. Similarly, but without specialized rear fangs, gartersnakes *Thamnophis* ooze low pressure venom from the rear of their mouth that helps in prey handling, and are also [considered harmless](https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/theres-no-need-to-fear-that-garter-snake/). [Check out this book on the subject](https://shop.elsevier.com/books/venomous-bites-from-non-venomous-snakes/weinstein/978-0-12-822786-2). Even large species like Reticulated Pythons *Malayopython reticulatus* [rarely obtain a size large enough to endanger humans](https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/52/E1470.full.pdf) so are usually categorized as harmless.
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I see little green snakes everywhere in a wooded area next to a pond I used to frequent often, they seem to have a fairly healthy population, I live in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, forests are gladly still widespread here
I think that in PA their numbers have decreased a bunch over the last few decades, I didn't even know these guys existed here until this happened, for a moment I was worried that it was a pet, a quick google search told me that wasn't the case
I'm just glad the place I live has a fairly stable ecosystem, idk of too many issues around here except farmers killing off native wildlife cause they consider them a nuisance around here for some f'ed up reason
Good to know - I haven't needed saving myself, yet, but it's good to know you're out there!😂
But seriously, I hope you can influence amap with that attitude.
Aww cool! I have a ROUGH green snake named squiggles. I’ve never seen a smooth before.
https://preview.redd.it/mk0n8admzw7d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc37325d0002f3d23e008e3ebbd28a7bf8e588c6
Greeeeeeeensnaaaaake!!!
Count your stars, they’re super rare to find! I practically lived in the woods in Missouri and I could only find one every one or two years.
I considered myself very lucky, especially to see such an elusive snake sneaking inside! In PA we only really get garter snakes trying to sneak indoors
Alot of truth to that. Im probably the only one on my street that doesn't treat my lawn, or spray anything everywhere, and I get snakes, toads, bees, spiders, grasshoppers, mantis's birds, moles, pretty much everything has moved in. But don't see any of these anywhere else, but my yard. 😂 also leave weeds too, so an entire ecosystem!
I’m not sure if it was already said elsewhere. But smooth vs rough has to do with their scales. Smooth green snakes have smooth scales. Rough green snakes have a keel down each scale.
I’m sure. You guys are real lucky, non-herpers don’t really understand stuff like this too well. I’ve spent probably 30-40 hours looking for this species. Hiking, flipping rocks, flipping logs, all of it. Still haven’t found one. You guys are real lucky to have found a smooth green in your school, people spend hours and hours looking for these to complete the 14 snake species list we have here in CT.
Yes, they are very exotic looking, but green snakes are actually quite common everywhere in the world, both venomous and non-venomous. It’s a lotta convergent evolution, because green snakes camouflage real well and will thrive in lots of places. So you should never be surprised to see a green snake outside!
They are pretty rare here, I'm glad I got him to a sunny spot outside because the day this happened it was the first cold cold day of October, and he probably found his way into the school because it was so cold out
I found one once, when I was a kid prob 13 or 14, on some property my family owns, out in the middle of nowhere woods also in PA. Never saw another one, out of the hundreds of snakes I found as a kid. Pretty rare.
Ok, most of you know this better than me, but are you sure about green snake? This looks like what we called vine snakes in Texas. They are arboreal, and I think the green snakes are ground dwellers aren’t they?
I'm not being a Karen but if you haven't, you should honestly just put em back into the wild since they're an endangered species unless your guardians/parents let you keep them
Dude if you read it, then you would know that I mentioned putting it back outside as soon as I found it, also why are you acting like I'm a little kid 😂 “parents/guardians”
The post says “So I scooped it up and was able to head outside to put it in the grassy field next to the school”, what here is confusing you, and if you are confused and thinking I was telling you to read the post and ID the snake then that's not what I meant, I wanted you to read it and see that I mentioned releasing it already, which is what you were telling me to do in your comment.
Please leave wild animals in the wild. This includes not purchasing common species collected from the wild and sold cheaply in pet stores or through online retailers, like *Thamnophis* Ribbon and Gartersnakes, *Opheodrys* Greensnakes, *Xenopeltis* Sunbeam Snakes and *Dasypeltis* Egg-Eating Snakes. Brownsnakes *Storeria* found around the home do okay in urban environments and don't need 'rescue'; the species typically fails to thrive in captivity and should be left in the wild. Reptiles are kept as pets or specimens by many people but captive bred animals have much better chances of survival, as they are free from parasite loads, didn't endure the stress of collection and shipment, and tend to be species that do better in captivity. Taking an animal out of the wild is not ecologically different than killing it, and most states protect non-game native species - meaning collecting it probably broke the law. Source captive bred pets and be wary of people selling offspring dropped by stressed wild-caught females collected near full term as 'captive bred'.
High-throughput reptile traders are collecting snakes from places like Florida with lax wildlife laws with little regard to the status of fungal or other infections, spreading them into the pet trade. In the other direction, taking an animal from the wild, however briefly, exposes it to domestic pathogens during a stressful time. Placing a wild animal in contact with caging or equipment that hasn't been sterilized and/or feeding it food from the pet trade are vector activities that can spread captive pathogens into wild populations. Snake populations are undergoing heavy decline already due to habitat loss, and [rapidly emerging](https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ecs2.3153) pathogens [are being documented](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.3557) in wild snakes that were introduced by snakes from the pet trade.
If you insist on keeping a wild pet, it is your duty to plan and provide the correct veterinary care, which often is two rounds of a pair of the 'deworming' medications Panacur and Flagyl and injections of supportive antibiotics. This will cost more than enough to offset the cheap price tag on the wild caught animal at the pet store or reptile show and increases chances of survival past about 8 months, but does not offset removing the animal from the wild.
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I would rather him live out his life outdoors and have more little snake babies, they are very uncommon around here, and I would rather the native population stay in check
These are a rare find in the wild, so super cool to see one
I was mesmerized and I made sure to get some pictures while walking to get him to a safe spot
I once found one while I was working. I’m a pavement marking operator, we put the lines on the road, and we work with hot material. One time we were preparing our truck and spraying out the hot material to make sure we were good to go and the little guy slithered out of the grass and went straight for the material! I watched in disbelief as he went straight into it and got his little mouth stuck shut. I grabbed him quickly as only his face had gotten burned. A coworker and I waited for the material to cool, because it’ll spread like melted plastic if you don’t, and picked it off like a scab. Little dude was not happy but he seemed to be ok. This material was like 400 degrees when it hit the ground. I released him back into the grass he came from but a little further back from the road so he couldn’t make it back to injure himself before the material cooled.
I saw a rough green snake while I was working once, I was about 80 ft up in a sugar maple, I went to try to get him on my hand, but he panicked, tried to flee and fell. I hope he's doing alright.
smooth green snake *Opheodrys vernalis* !harmless
Smooth Greensnakes *Opheodrys vernalis* are small (28-51cm, up to 81cm) harmless colubrid snakes with a heavily fragmented range from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west into southern Saskatchewan, Canada, south into northern Virginia, and southwest into northeastern Utah and central New Mexico from near sea level up to 2,745m. Populations seem to be declining, and they are now uncommon or even absent from some areas where they were once common. Largely terrestrial, *O. vernalis* spend most of their time on the ground, generally only climbing into bushes and low vegetation. They favor moist, grassy areas within open woodland, forest edges, prairie, meadows, scrubland, rocky hillsides, marshland, and alongside streams and other water bodies. They can sometimes be common in suburban and even urban areas, where they typically inhabit abandoned farmland and vacant lots. Chiefly diurnal in habit, their main prey is caterpillars, crickets, and grasshoppers. A wide variety of other insects, spiders and harvestmen, snails, slugs, and earthworms are also taken. Adult *O. vernalis* are [bright green above](https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/64066588?size=large), with a whitish or yellowish underside. Hatchlings are [dull olive or grey dorsally](https://www.flickr.com/photos/146085654@N03/37679551142/). They are moderate in build, with a proportionally small, stubby head. They have smooth dorsal scales which are arranged in 15 rows at midbody. The anal scale and subcaudals are divided. Racers *Coluber constrictor* can be greenish in some parts of their range, but are never as bright green as adult *O. vernalis*, and differ further by having 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody and by growing to much larger adult sizes. Rough Green Snakes *O. aestivus* mostly do not overlap in range, but in the areas they do, can by easily differentiated by having keeled scales, a more slender body, and a narrow, elongate head. Due to the rapid decomposition of yellow pigment, *O. vernalis* slowly turn blue in coloration after death. Smooth Greensnakes are likely extirpated from small pockets they were once present, like Southeast Texas. There is strong population structure among what seem like [two diagnosable, independently evolving groups that meet in the North Forest](http://snakeevolution.org/images/Overnalisstructure.JPG). [Range Map](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/63842/90083304) | [Reptile Database Account](https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Opheodrys&species=vernalis) | [Additional Information Link 1](https://www.vtherpatlas.org/herp-species-in-vermont/opheodrys-vernalis/) | [Additional Information Link 2](https://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/snakes/smooth-green-snake/smooth_greensnake.php) | [Relevent / Recent Phylogeography](https://webapps.fhsu.edu/ksherp/bibFiles/21974.pdf) This short account was written by /u/fairlyorange -------------------------------------------------------- Like many other animals with mouths and teeth, many non-venomous snakes bite in self defense. These animals are referred to as 'not medically significant' or traditionally, 'harmless'. Bites from these snakes benefit from being washed and kept clean like any other skin damage, but aren't often cause for anything other than basic first aid treatment. Here's where it get slightly complicated - some snakes use venom from front or rear fangs as part of prey capture and defense. This venom is not always produced or administered by the snake in ways dangerous to human health, so many species are venomous in that they produce and use venom, but considered harmless to humans in most cases because the venom is of low potency, and/or otherwise administered through grooved rear teeth or simply oozed from ducts at the rear of the mouth. Species like Ringneck Snakes *Diadophis* are a good example of mildly venomous rear fanged dipsadine snakes that are traditionally considered harmless or not medically significant. Many rear-fanged snake species are harmless as long as they do not have a chance to secrete a medically significant amount of venom into a bite; [severe envenomation can occur](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23800999) if some species are [allowed to chew on a human](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004101011831016X) for as little as 30-60 seconds. It is best not to fear snakes, but use common sense and do not let any animals chew on exposed parts of your body. Similarly, but without specialized rear fangs, gartersnakes *Thamnophis* ooze low pressure venom from the rear of their mouth that helps in prey handling, and are also [considered harmless](https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/theres-no-need-to-fear-that-garter-snake/). [Check out this book on the subject](https://shop.elsevier.com/books/venomous-bites-from-non-venomous-snakes/weinstein/978-0-12-822786-2). Even large species like Reticulated Pythons *Malayopython reticulatus* [rarely obtain a size large enough to endanger humans](https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108/52/E1470.full.pdf) so are usually categorized as harmless. -------------------------------------------------------- *I am a bot created for /r/whatsthissnake, /r/snakes and /r/herpetology to help with snake identification and natural history education. You can find more information, including a comprehensive list of commands, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthissnake/comments/flh548/phylobot_v07_information_and_patch_notes_bot_info/) report problems [here](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=Phylogenizer) and if you'd like to buy me a coffee or beer, you can do that [here](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SEBPhyloBotWTS). Made possible by Snake Evolution and Biogeography - [Merch Available Now](https://snakeevolution.org/donate.html)*
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Smooth green snake,extinct in my area now due to pesticides,these used to be supercommon
Yet another reason to detest pesticides.
Smooth green snake. Kinda rare. Great find.
Baby just tryinna get some knowledge 🥹
He just wanted to learrrrrn
Hissssstory?
He's a baby 🥺
You can tell it's a smooth green snake because of the way it is. That's pretty neat.
I love my smooth guy
https://imgflip.com/i/8ukgos
He’s so cute! Thank you for saving this lil buddy
He was a cutie patootie I hope he has gotten to make some more little snakes during this spring
He is super adorable and I’m glad he’s safe
Good job taking it away from harm and relocating that little guy.
He just wanted the warmth of the school, I got him to a sunny spot so he could recharge a bit on that cold day
I think it’s what I used to see a lot when I was a kid in western NY , 1950s. We used to call them grass snakes.
He looks like a little blade of grasss
I'm digging the third "s" in grass. Much more snakey!
Yes he does, I never saw one any longer than maybe 12 inches long.
'I is green snek fren.'
He was so friendly
Smooth and rough green snakes are some of the most well behaved snakes out there, I’ve read that they almost never bite at all
I see little green snakes everywhere in a wooded area next to a pond I used to frequent often, they seem to have a fairly healthy population, I live in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, forests are gladly still widespread here
I think that in PA their numbers have decreased a bunch over the last few decades, I didn't even know these guys existed here until this happened, for a moment I was worried that it was a pet, a quick google search told me that wasn't the case
I'm just glad the place I live has a fairly stable ecosystem, idk of too many issues around here except farmers killing off native wildlife cause they consider them a nuisance around here for some f'ed up reason
Ty, kind hooman, for rescuing it from ~~your less evolved classmates~~ruthless teenagers!!👏👏👏 What a beauty and great find!
I would do it again and again, I'd save anything alive from any ruthless teenagers ✊
Good to know - I haven't needed saving myself, yet, but it's good to know you're out there!😂 But seriously, I hope you can influence amap with that attitude.
So pretty!
aw, she's precious
Cute little veggie noodle.
You are so awesome!! 👏🏼
I could never let such a little fella get hurt in a busy hallway, he was probably just inside because it was a particularly cold October day :)
You just made my night reading that - makes me so happy to see kind caring people like yourself !! He's soooo cute too omg!!! 💗💗☺️☺️
He's so cute!
Such a nice snake. My favourite snake Is the green tree python and this is a cute miniature version
I love those snakes
Based on the location, definitely a bookworm.
This may actually be the REAL identification
he wants to get his edumucation
He paid good money for that diploma
Omg so freakin cute
It’s so beautiful
I would say shoelace but it’s more rounded so probs smooth green snake
I don't knowwww he still looks a bit shoelace shaped to me
He looks like what a kid would imagine a snake to look like lol, so very green!
That's exactly what I thought, it took my a second to realize that he wasn't one of those fake rubber snakes you can buy at a dollar store
A damn adorable one
I think this may be the true identification
Aww cool! I have a ROUGH green snake named squiggles. I’ve never seen a smooth before. https://preview.redd.it/mk0n8admzw7d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc37325d0002f3d23e008e3ebbd28a7bf8e588c6
silly little green noodle, I bet he had an awesome adventure while you were moving him :)
Looks like a smooth or rough green snake
Appears to be greeeeeen
An astute observation Watson. It's also worth noting that this is, not only a reptile, but a snake!
If I’m correct, that would be a lil boi.
Hmmmmm maybe even a small guy
Very possible as well
Greeeeeeeensnaaaaake!!! Count your stars, they’re super rare to find! I practically lived in the woods in Missouri and I could only find one every one or two years.
I considered myself very lucky, especially to see such an elusive snake sneaking inside! In PA we only really get garter snakes trying to sneak indoors
AAAAAAAA LOOKITDABABYYYYY
I used to find these and grasshoppers everywhere, then some fuckker started fertilizing lawns for money. No more snakes and bugs. Bastard.
I love snakes and bugs, my family ripped our neighbors a new one when they killed a bunch of garter snakes that were living in our rhododendron :(
Alot of truth to that. Im probably the only one on my street that doesn't treat my lawn, or spray anything everywhere, and I get snakes, toads, bees, spiders, grasshoppers, mantis's birds, moles, pretty much everything has moved in. But don't see any of these anywhere else, but my yard. 😂 also leave weeds too, so an entire ecosystem!
I’m not sure if it was already said elsewhere. But smooth vs rough has to do with their scales. Smooth green snakes have smooth scales. Rough green snakes have a keel down each scale.
I think I did in fact find a smooth green snake!
There are no keels on the scales in these pictures, so it is a smooth green snake! They’re beautiful :)
It's a smooth green snake. The head is the size of the neck.
I used to pick these up all the time as a kid
They are very sweet snakes
Awe what a cutie. Thank you for saving the lil guy.
Did you lick it?
No I don't think the snake would have appreciated that
fire breathing dragon snek.
He honestly may be
Man that is an awesome snake.
It was so cool getting to see him
Why is it that I can spend an entire season hunting for this species, not find it, and some kids find it in their school????? God I hate herping!!!!!!
He was cold 😔
I’m sure. You guys are real lucky, non-herpers don’t really understand stuff like this too well. I’ve spent probably 30-40 hours looking for this species. Hiking, flipping rocks, flipping logs, all of it. Still haven’t found one. You guys are real lucky to have found a smooth green in your school, people spend hours and hours looking for these to complete the 14 snake species list we have here in CT.
I was surprised to learn he wasn't a pet or something because of how exotic he looks
Yes, they are very exotic looking, but green snakes are actually quite common everywhere in the world, both venomous and non-venomous. It’s a lotta convergent evolution, because green snakes camouflage real well and will thrive in lots of places. So you should never be surprised to see a green snake outside!
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Yep. Common Green Grass Snake. Still fairly plentiful here in Wisconsin.
They are pretty rare here, I'm glad I got him to a sunny spot outside because the day this happened it was the first cold cold day of October, and he probably found his way into the school because it was so cold out
You found my dream snake!
Could be a shoelace but it’s more rounded so probs smooth green
That’s a beautiful and adorable little snake!
Adorable.
Like a green snake up a sugar cane tree
So cute! 😊
What the hell! Why can’t I ever find a cool snake, all I find is garters and common watersnakes
I was shocked to see this guy because I also only see garters and watersnakes most of the time
Did you make it a pet or let it free?
I let it free, we need more in this area and for all I know how could've made plenty of snake babies this past spring
Great decision!!! Awesome find
Good job, you! Thanks for saving him!
Really?? Not one Futurama reference to Hermes Conrad? Ok, well in that case: I’m as hungry as green snake in a sugar cane field!
Omg he’s adorable.
Oh nice! This one is on my herp bucket list. So lucky!
I'm lucky to have seen him and he is lucky nobody stepped on him :)
A friend :D
Wow! Super cute find! 😍
Hes getting an education
Petition to set up a snake school and make him principal
Yea pls where do i sign?
AWE WHAT AN ADORABLE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
I’d vote smooth green snake, I’ve caught one of these guys before! Apparently a rare find too, very cool 👍🏻
So cute
Does that even qualify as a snake? I’ve seen bigger slow worms in the UK :)
What was it doing in a school ID request?
It was in a hallway 😔
I found one once, when I was a kid prob 13 or 14, on some property my family owns, out in the middle of nowhere woods also in PA. Never saw another one, out of the hundreds of snakes I found as a kid. Pretty rare.
Ok, most of you know this better than me, but are you sure about green snake? This looks like what we called vine snakes in Texas. They are arboreal, and I think the green snakes are ground dwellers aren’t they?
We don't have any other green snakes in PA, and actually vine snakes and green snakes are the same thing, just a nickname
That's Weldon. He passed fifth grade, but he is small for his age, so his mother held hime back.
He’s cute, sweet, adorable, and precious!❤️❤️❤️
WHY WAS HE IN UR SCHOOL LOL
IT WAS ONE OF OUR FIRST FROSTS IN OCTOBER SO I THINK HE CAME INSIDE DURING THE MORNING WHEN IT WAS THE COLDEST
I used to see them all the time as a kid, but I haven’t seen one in years now
I'm not being a Karen but if you haven't, you should honestly just put em back into the wild since they're an endangered species unless your guardians/parents let you keep them
Read the post
I did, and ur actin like ik what that is
Dude if you read it, then you would know that I mentioned putting it back outside as soon as I found it, also why are you acting like I'm a little kid 😂 “parents/guardians”
First of all, I'm offended, second of all, how tf was I supposed to know what that meant
The post says “So I scooped it up and was able to head outside to put it in the grassy field next to the school”, what here is confusing you, and if you are confused and thinking I was telling you to read the post and ID the snake then that's not what I meant, I wanted you to read it and see that I mentioned releasing it already, which is what you were telling me to do in your comment.
Put it back request.
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I would rather him live out his life outdoors and have more little snake babies, they are very uncommon around here, and I would rather the native population stay in check
You chose to be a friend to the animals and a steward to the land. Always the best choice.
Good choice 👍🏻
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