S-s-s-s-snakes, no thanks

As we started digging in the ground around the new place we kept across snakes two feet underground. Had never seen this before. It was too warm for them to be hibernating so what were they doing in the ground?

Knew they weren't poisonous because of the shape of their heads but we like to know what kind of pets we have.Bob Jennings, the old TV animal guy for Oklahoma, once told me that if you have non-poisonous snakes to talk to them and give them names because if you have them you probably won't have poisonous ones. Not enough food for everyone.

Friends came up with lots of variances on the same name for the snake. Mud Snake, Rough Dirt Snake seem to be the two most popular. Main thing is they like mice to eat ant they won't hurt us.

So meet Sammy Snake!