Snake ID

[Goodfellah]

I think that snake looks just like the hog nose that was just posted here. How is the pup doing?

[flywise]

This one is a bit tricky

[BTLowry]

First guess was timber rattler, mostly due to not being able to see but about 5 scales at a time.

[Mule Skinner]

No doubt the OP's pic is a hognose.

Just like this one I almost stepped on the other day, different color phase though.

[okrattler]

No doubt the OP's pic is a hognose.

Just like this one I almost stepped on the other day, different color phase though.

The patterns on that ones head and body almost make me think it's a Western Hognose. If it was that thing is huge. Wouldn't be surprised if it would have been a record length for that species.

[El General]

Snake left. Scout the JRT certified the backyard snake free.

[Hogmauler]

Those different phases of hog nose sell for hundreds of dollars at reptile shows. We go to the annual show at the Brazos Expo Center.

[soldierarcher]

Triangled head equals dead. Sorry.

[Traildust]

I have a big old monitor and I could only see one inch of the snake at a time.

Try the resize:

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Thanks Chew.

That 100%, without a doubt, a hognose

[Tubby]

Hognose

[SaltwaterSlick]

Absolutely an Eastern Hognose snake... Use the zoom out feature on the browser and you can see the pic clearly zoomed back to about 90%... Round eyes, and that nose curvature up from the bottom to above top... Short stubby like a moccasin juvenile, but it it was that, it'd have a green tail... This one's head is actually partly distended (spread out)... also called a spread n-natter....
Dog will be fine...

[SaltwaterSlick]

Here's a screen shot of just the head...





Round eyes and NO PITS... cannot be a pit viper... Just a pizz'd off spread n-natter.

[RifleBowPistol]

This one is definitely one of harder ones. Wish we had a better pic of the head. That head looks nothing like a hognose to me but the body coloring does.

Unfortunately the snake he posted the picture of is without any question a rattler, you can see the head clearly. Definitely a pit viper. Does not look happy at all.

Well now seeing the smaller picture, I don't know what it is. Still looks very much like a pit viper, but the pattern, does not look like an pit vipers I know of in Texas. Definitely looks thick like a moccasin.

[RifleBowPistol]

No chance, the head of a HN looks nothing like the one in the pic.

I would definitely agree, I really think that's a pit viper. I am reading a bunch of guys saying hognose. I keep looking the whole head over and I keep seeing pit viper. I don't seen any hognose shape to that head. The only thing I can think of is a rare colored moccasin.

[billfromtx]

Looks like a hognose to me. But it’s not a very good pic