Originally Posted By ndwoods
Wow. Yea our garter snakes and rattlers out west look identical almost. The garter snakes out here even lift their tails and appear to be rattling in imitation of rattlers. The only way I can tell is the heads are a little more diamond shape in a rattler and of course if I get close enough, the rattles.


Garter snakes are not at all like rattle snakes. Bull snakes are, however, close enough that a panicked person might mistake them, and they do shake their tails in a similar way.

Garter snakes are all yellow striped from head to toe, some with red spots down the yellow stripes, some just black and yellow striped, and they never get very large at all. We always caught them to feed to the king snakes. Which are black and white rings, or black, red, yellow and white rings for the Mountain King Snake. King snakes make pretty good pets.
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