Look what was in the flower pot!!!

[lorenmps]

This story was emailed to me today...

I almost had a heart attack this week. My son got me a potted plant for my birthday. I kept it on my kitchen counter the whole time. This week it was warm enough to plant outside. It was in a plastic pot wedged into a decorative outer container. After planting the flower, I got a knife to get the plastic pot out of the glass one. When I wedged the knife around the sides, something moved. I told my son it looked like a snake, so he took the liner out. To our surprise, there was not one snake, but two baby copperheads. I almost died! When we took the plastic pot out, there was a piece of cardboard up the side. There must have been eggs in the holes of the cardboard that hatched out when it got hot. I am sending you pictures.

Take my advice and don't bring nursery plants inside. This could have been really, re ally bad. The plant was bought at a grocery store; I won't give the name because I don't want to ruin their business, plus I'm pretty sure it was the grower & not the store who was responsible. Growers should take more care when potting plants.

I just want to warn you guys not to bring plants inside; who knows what could be leaking way down under those roots. I am only thankful it was not intended as a house plant!

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This also applies to plants that you have had outside thru the summer and want to bring them inside in the cold weather.

[chuck33]

LOL that has to be the funniest thing I have read in a while. OK, OK, OK I want to play snoops for a sec........LOL:pound:

1) Copperheads are a member of the Viper fanmily and give LIVE BIRTH, so scratch the egg theory.
2) IF those were copperheads (and there NOT) then the person that put the plant in the "decorative outer container" would have seen them.
3) if they are copperheads, they MUST be one of the rare colubrid species ones running around the states.....

LOL This is funny and designed to scare people. People need to learn what venomous snakes look like, so they can reconize them when they see them. These snakes more then likely ended up dead, and thats a shame. good looking snakes whatever they are.

Chuck

[The Snake Guru]

LOL...that is a funny story.

But like Chuck said those aren't copperheads! LOL

Hard to tell from the pic but it's definitely some form of colubrid.

~B~

[lorenmps]

HAHA... I thought you guys would laugh at this one. It's hard to tell what the snakes are from the pics. I was thinking some type of garters or maybe watersnakes???

[The Snake Guru]

My first thought was garter (due to the stripe) but they are a bit to "rusty" in coloration.....damn near looks like something from the slug and worm eating snakes (redbellys and ssp.) would fit with why they were hold up in a flower pot...LOL

~B~

[lorenmps]

My first thought was garter (due to the stripe) but they are a bit to "rusty" in coloration.....damn near looks like something from the slug and worm eating snakes (redbellys and ssp.) would fit with why they were hold up in a flower pot...LOL

~B~

Good call, Could be.

[Juggalo]

I read the post and was fixin' to just blast this person but between the three of you it got handled so I will just leave it alone and step away lmao.

[Robilyn]

Tee hee yeah...copperheads my feet! Sigh... :roll:

[carpondro17]

LOL
Wow intresting looking ''copperheads'' LMAO
Hey maybe their a new species of copperheads lol JK

[Richard_G]

My wife recived the same E-mail I laughed then and am still doing so. My response to her was they apear to be young Thamnophis ordinoides (northwestern garter snakes). The pic makes it difficult to tell for certain but the little bit of pattern color dark head and afew other details I picked up on that would be my guess. But hey I have been wrong(once lol)..