Name: Diamond Certified Experts: How to Identify Dangerous Snakes
Uploaded: 2022-06-13T20:05:32Z
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Description: James Schmerker, owner of Animal Damage Control, a Diamond Certified company, provides some helpful tips on how to identify dangerous snakes on your property. To learn more about Animal Damage Control, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/report/animal-damage-control/ To learn more about Diamond Certified and find top rated companies in your area, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/

DISCOVERY BAY — James Schmerker: There&#8217;s a lot of snake and or other reptile activity when it&#8217;s warm. So &#8217;cause they&#8217;re cold blooded. And so these will be all over the place in people&#8217;s homes. This snake particularly got caught in a kitchen, or I caught it in the kitchen. They&#8217;d seen it. And people are always worried about rattlesnakes. They are one toxic snake. And this is a gopher snake. They end up looking, they go kind of like a rattlesnake, they&#8217;ll hiss and do things like that. But they&#8217;re absolutely harmless. It&#8217;s really a shame to kill all the non-toxic snakes, cause they&#8217;re all part of nature as we know it.
The easiest thing big or small would be, see this little guy, his head and his neck and his body are roughly very uniform, garden hose-looking. His tail is pointy like a sharpened pencil, any snake like that is non-toxic, there&#8217;s many different types and they all have that little aspect.
Rattlesnakes are even scary. They&#8217;ve got cat eye pupils. They&#8217;re vertical. Their head is wide. The neck is narrow and they look kind of like a flat tire. This guy&#8217;s more like a garden hose.
Even the smallest ones have a button on their tail, not even rattles, but it ends in like an eraser end of a pencil, not like a sharpened one. And that&#8217;s the best way to tell them apart. At a distance, any snake is safe, but you want to keep track of it and make a call to animal services people. Even county sheriffs, they&#8217;ll be able to help.

James Schmerker, owner of Animal Damage Control, a Diamond Certified company, provides some helpful tips on how to identify dangerous snakes on your property.

How to Identify Dangerous Snakes from James Schmerker of Animal Damage Control.

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James Schmerker, owner of Animal Damage Control, a Diamond Certified company, provides some helpful tips on how to identify dangerous snakes on your property.

To learn more about Animal Damage Control, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/report/animal-damage-control/

To learn more about Diamond Certified and find top rated companies in your area, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/

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