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Originally Posted by Trish Crocker View Post
Species Profile: Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta) | SREL Herpetology

Check out this site. I'm not afraid of snakes neccessarily but I would really like to be able to tell the good from the bad. Do all poisonous snakes have rattles?

No they do not.
Non poisonous snakes have round black eyes. Poisonous snakes have teardrop shaped eyes with a black slit like a cat.
Poisonous snakes tend to have a tranglular shaped head....wide at the back and narrowing to the nose.

These are all very difficult to seeas we are all at least 5-6 feet at a minimum away from a very small target.

The best advice is to treat all snakes as if they were poisonous. Just leave them alone as they are not interested in humans.
Over time one gets to know the non poisonous like here in FL....there are very many helpful snakes.

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