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craig had taken the dogs out for their "business", and came in anouncing to me he saw a snakeskin outside in the backyard.

i asked if he took a picture, he hadnt thought it nessessary (he doesnt get it, i need the pics to have something to blog about), and grabbed the camera and took a picture.

i asked if he could recognize the snake by the skin, and he wasnt sure.

but added:

"maybe its a rat snake and it came and ate the rat."

he also brought it inside...looked really, very generic as far as markings go, but was over a foot in length.

my thoughts then went too 2 areas:

1)- how long does it take a snake too shed their skin, and how long had this snake been doing it undesterbed by my dogs AND cats?

2)- if this thing could eat an animal the size of that rat we saw in the backyard..it could have swallowed my BONO up!

what a thought! put him out for a few minutes and BAM, hes consumed by some wandering slithering sepent..and wed have never known.

craig also mentioned that it may be held up in the garage.
great!
just what i need when i go out there to organize is to meet a snake face-to-face!

from what we can tell its no threat....but then the markings arnt very good....
so..it COULD be....

i just hope it went off to someone elses yard, left mine alone.

MICHELLE