Does he think it's a mate? *snake warning* UPDATE

[jazzcat]

I went out to water my flowers and this is what I found. Luckily I saw him before I picked up the black garden hose.





Maybe he's found a girlfriend?

A close up of his head.



He's been there for over an hour now. I'm still waiting to water my flowers.

UPDATE: Well now I know why he was there so long, he is DEAD! When Richard got home I showed him and he wanted to kill him. I didn't want him to so I grabbed the pool pole to try to move him out to the woods and discovered he is dead. I don't know why, there are no marks on him.

By the way, he was a rat snake and measured 4 feet long.

[Pam]

Love the thread title! I can't blame you for putting off the watering for a bit. Do you know what kind of snake it is?

[Sirrahsim]

I think he's cute. Is he a ratsnake?
He looks like the snake that my Biology teacher kept in our classroom. "Snakey Bob" was a 5 or 6 foot ratsnake that I would wear on my shoulders while wandering the halls at school

[slick]

AWWWW! This makes me so sad. RIP little snake.

[boomersooner]

I can look at pictures of snakes, but I really am afraid of them in person....rational or irrational fear, it is fear nonetheless....I wouldn't want it dead either, but if I had reached down and picked it up instead of the garden hose, I think I would have died......I was forced to hold a snake when I was in brownies a thousand years ago, and I really think that is where my fear came from....probably worked the opposite of what the nature center lady wanted......

[Catty1]

Oh no...I wonder what happened to him.

He is lovely - and I have held snakes. They are dry and warm (warm if they have been in the sun). They might pee on you, but that's about it. (don't cuddle the biting or constricting ones).

RIP dapper boy.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Beuitful wild specimen of a ratsnake, I wonder what he died from? RIP snake

[CathyBogart]

Poor guy, maybe he ate a poisoned rodent. Thank you for trying to save him.

[Miss Z]

Poor thing . He was a beautiful animal.

[pitc9]

Oh the poor thing... RIP Mr. Snake.

[chocolatepuppy]

Wow, 4ft.,that's a bit too big of a snake for me! Never saw one here quite that big. Sorry he was dead. I also relocate snakes that won't move on, they never come back.