On Fri, 01 May 2009 14:53:12 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


I had a big black racer on my pool deck I was trying to grab a while
ago. He was striking at me like a rattle snake and aggressive as hell.
My current dog (Auggie Doggie) came in under my arm and bit his ass. All
of a sudden that snake curled up like a hockey puck with nothing but a
couple inches of his tail sticking out, trying to look like a rattler.
I picked it up and threw it out in the yard, still rolled up. After a
minute it straightened out and "raced" away.

We do have black racers here. Now that is a beautiful snake, if you can
say that about a snake. We also have a hog-nosed snake. Damn ugly, but
it's interesting in that it will play dead.