probable certaintity leads to it being a black racer. Totally harmless and they do eat mice and rats.
Once when I was giving a snake demonstration to a group of second grade students at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, I was handfeeding a dead mouse (microwaved to approximate living temperature) to a black racer. The snake was eating the mouse and I was engrossed in my own comments to the kids. Before I knew what was happening, the 5 foot snake had consumed the mouse as well as my thumb that was holding the mouse. Snake teeth are curved backward so I had quite a time releasing my thumb without hurting the snake. The school kids thought it was a great ending to the show.
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