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| Eastern Rat Snake - Author's Picture |
My mom's dog, Chaos the beagle, found a rat snake on the front porch. The picture was taken in the summer of 2015. It had dropped by to try to steal the eggs from a bird that had nested on the porch. These snakes can grow to be 7' long. This one looks like a long one.
Eastern rat snakes used to be called black rat snakes. When I was little, we called them "chicken snakes." When (as an adult) my daughter raised some chickens, we frequently found them raiding the nests for eggs. They ate little chickens, too.
