I have snakes (kings) and never saw any with hiccups, Doesn't mean they don't get it but never heard of it.

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What type snakes? Some types of snakes esp the smaller snakes like ringnecks,etc are more prone to unhinge their jaws on a daily basis and perhaps that might be what your seeing.

If it is hiccups just sneak up behind the snake and SCARE him/her. I am just goofing but never heard of hiccups in snakes.

Hmmm.....hiccups are spasms of the diaphram. Could have ate something small and took awhile to get it down. Keep us posted. Also I replied to your other thread on your Northern Water Snakes but I do not see my reply. Basically all I said was that you need a probe to sex a snake or you can squeeze them down low but if you don't have experience you can cause damage.

Also Northern water snakes will try to get away if threatened. You really have to grab them to get bit. I have been bit by them while catching them and it is not really too big of a deal. They have a mild anticoagulant in their blood so you bleed a little more. Of course that cleans out the bite and prevents infection if you are bitten.

In captivity you keep them in a dry cage. They tame so easy and eat fish from your hands in about three days. One of my favorite snakes.

Lisa

I don't know if snakes get the hiccups, but I know I start making hiccuping noises when I see them. I am all for nature, but snakes definitely aren't a favorite and I have a dog, Harley, that has managed to kill all those that have ventured into the yard for the last 13 years. GGGOOOD DOG. You guys are the bravest.

Posted by hardin 7 SE OK (My Page) on Mon, May 24, 10 at 0:09

I don't know if snakes get the hiccups, but I know I start making hiccuping noises when I see them. I am all for nature, but snakes definitely aren't a favorite and I have a dog, Harley, that has managed to kill all those that have ventured into the yard for the last 13 years. GGGOOOD DOG. You guys are the bravest.
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I know many people are afriad of them and certainly some venemous snakes but as you know if you leave them alone they leave you alone. They fear humans and avoid us plus they eat rodents and an asset to have around.

If we lived in Africa,Asia than I undersyand fearing them lol but not here in the states.

After the shock cold spell we had here in Miami I saw a 12 foot give or take dead python by canal border by Glades . Cold killed it and wouldnt want that in my yard lol but the rest of them I love.

"In captivity you keep them in a dry cage. They tame so easy and eat fish from your hands in about three days. One of my favorite snakes. "

Lisa
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I have 4 king snakes the small mt types but looked into water snakes last year as saw an albino at a reptile show and loved it was surprised to read that "you keep them in a dry cage" as just assumed fairly aquatic snakes but yes seems in captivity they get blisters if not kept dry . Other than water bowl.

Might get albino garter pair this yr as just smaller and can breed in captivity.

I have Ophidiophobia a/k/a Snakephobia, i.e. fear of snakes. Growing up in Indiana with a grandmother that also had it, made mine just get worse. After living in Florida and then Houston and now south Texas, out in the country, I've had to work on getting over it. It hasn't been easy, but I no longer kill snakes unless they are poisonous. And after having studied snakes and learned which are poisonous and which are not, has made my life much easier. I'm still afraid if I don't know they are around and fall on me, which they have done from time to time, but I'm getting better everyday and appreciate what role they play in our world.

Do snakes get hiccups?

Only if they drink their beer too fast, Cathy!
"Horton"

LOL, Horton. Good one.

It's not that I so much have a fear of them as it is I just really don't think I can tolerate them too close. Also, I have learned to be leery of them, as several years ago, the owner of a lot that adjoined mine put up a sign "Free Dirt Dumping". Needless to say, he got everything but, and I battled the copperheads for a LONG time. The youngest almost get bit by one, and with all the rocks buried in there the rattlesnakes and coppers are there. Oklahoma has several poisonous snakes and I have tried to learn the patterns, but I tend to react first, identify later. I do like how they help us out though.

LOL Horton.

I honestly think some people are genetically predisposed to having a fear of snakes. I know a couple people who absolutely freak out if they see a snake. Its not like they've had any bad experiences with them. So I never assume people are just sissies if they freak out.
They do startle me if I come across one when I'm not expecting them, but I don't freak out.
I freak out about everything else in life......so its nice there's at least one thing that doesn't bother me! haha
ltcollins..........one fell on you??? Now THAT would freak me out!
cockroaches bother me more than anything......but I still don't kill them. Fortunately, we don't have them in our house.
But....one year we had wood cockroaches that liked to live in our mailbox. I developed a fear of mail. hahaha

Oh good gracious all this snake talk on the forums lately has got me really, really nervous.

I have a SERIOUS fear of snakes. Luckily I have the world's best cat hunter in my little Tonkinese, Toby. At one time or another, he has killed (and eaten, yuck!) just about everything brave enough to venture into my yard including mice, rabbits, squirrels, bats and chipmunks. Luckily the song birds are too fast for him most of the time.

I'm hoping his affinity for hunting will extend to snakes when and if they find my pond. Or else, it might take the fire department to come coax ME out of the tree after I come across my first unexpected snake!

Yes, I've had a couple of ribbon snakes fall on me when I opened my greenhouse windows, and I've stepped on a couple when I opened my back door to head outside. I don't know if it scared me the most or if it scared the snake more. And a massaguaga fell on my yard guy when he was trimming back my bananas last month. Lucky for him that it didn't bite him on the way down. And I've found some snakes in my house that got in by doors that were not completely shut. That just scares me to death, but at least I know they are not poisonous. A garter snake got into the house one day, and my cats took care of him. I think he had a slow death!

YIKES!