Meet and Greet: Bullsnake!

[@LinnersC]

I grew up in southern Alberta with the pleasure of being around both rattlesnakes and bullsnakes. In the wild area behind my house there was a rattlesnake hibernaculum that my mom protected diligently against the roving teens that tended to pour boiling water or gasoline down the hole. But we also had a resident bullsnake that stuck around for a couple years. It lived under our front steps and came out in the morning to sun itself on our pavement. Me and my brother loved it and named it Sammy (gender neutral name cause we werent sure if it was a boy or a girl). Never handled it or anything, but we loved watching it. The mail carriers weren't the most pleased finding a 6 foot snake blocking his path to delivering our mail though! 😂

[@AutumnFalls89]

Haha, oh dear. I'm also in Alberta. I've seen more garter snakes than bull snakes or rattle snakes though.

[@LinnersC]

@@AutumnFalls89 I grew up in Medicine Hat. We were always told to watch out for bullsnakes falling from trees because they like to climb, but can be a little clumsy sometimes haha. I've seen a lot of garters too.

[@AutumnFalls89]

@@LinnersC I never heard that when I was in and around Lethbridge for a couple years. I knew to watch out for them while walking in the coolies, but I never heard of them falling from trees!

[@ragnkja]

Tora (variant of Thora, and also feminine of “toro”) or Tyra (“tyr” means “bull”)

[@KarlBunker]

A person sees a snake that goes: "Hiss, hiss, [tail shake, tail shake], [rattle, rattle, rattle] -- yeah, I'm a dangerous rattlesnake; you'd better run!" Person looks closer: "Oh, that's a lot of bull, snake!" -- Is that how they got their name?

[@esoteric9333]

Pinecone would be fun! That's what her pattern reminds me of

[@LL-nb1er]

I agree I think pinecone is a great name

[@Eyagsf]

♥️“Valentine”♥️ I love the way she ending the video by being so relaxed in your hand😍

[@ps374249]

Bullseye! I read the title wrong at first, and then I immediately thought "that'd be a good name though"

[@coolionotcool]

I like the name Isadora, because she is-adora-bull

[@raineberry7627]

So cute ugh

[@kenrickbautista6141]

I absolutely ADORE snakes! They're one of my favorite animals, and they're so plain awesome. 🐍

[@bubbajenkins123]

Name suggestion: Minnietaur

[@CheySandra]

I second Minnie!

[@inevitabletraitor]

Name idea: Fernanda, feminine version of Ferdinand (the peaceful bull).

[@cathylarkin5664]

I like "Fernanda", maybe Fern for short as she has the gracefulness of a fern swaying in the breeze.

[@Xix1326]

OMG, childhood memory being dredged up. I had a little stuffed bull I named Ferdinand when I was a kid. This is a wonderful channel.

[@nikkicyrier]

Was just going to say the same!

[@jdhouse2850]

My youngest daughter and I can't get enough watching your videos. We are learning so much, plus the love you have for these animals shine. Keep it up and thank you.

[@sweatpantsprincess3239]

Mavis or Maeve, after the legendary bull-kidnapping irish queen Meabh.

[@Just_One_Tree]

You could name her Ferdinand. After the bull from the awesome children’s book 🐍

[@zoetasia5138]

Callie. She’s from CA. She’s cute. And she’s so clever!

[@yvonnerogers6429]

Y’all, I just learned that “Sonic the Hedgehog,” the new movie based on the 1990s video game that comes out this weekend, takes place In MONTANA!!!! Perfect excuse to update us on your hedgie (hedgies? How many have you got now?) and snag some subscribers! Best!

[@Myrtle2911]

Welcome, Little Bullsnake! It's so important to educate people about snakes, especially non-venomous ones. They're so beneficial!

[@agricolaterrae]

With those beautiful scales, I think Checkers would make a good name.

[@TheDarlingDeer]

Name Ideas: -Mimi (Short for Mimick) -Lucida -Lamb -Sandra

[@LycaWatyre]

She is so gorgeous! Thank you for sharing her with us.

[@BadHairdayKimmie]

She looks like a Flossie to me. It just seems like a nice name and follows along with the rope, noodle, string, hose, tube, etc. theme people use for snakes.

[@EricBrosch]

My vote, as well as my daughter's are "Ferdinand" from the children's book. My son votes for "Bill Gates"

[@Spacey7]

She's beautiful. What a great addition to your menagerie 🥰

[@PenitentHollow]

I live in Southern Ontario, Canada and I've noticed Stouts in my yard and I'm very happy to have them for neighbors, not just because they are adorable but also because they prey on mice (keeps them out of my house) and frogs (keeps them out of my pool). It's good to understand your wildlife neighbors so you know which ones to respect and leave alone and which ones you actually need to get evicted.

[@sickofthestupid1067]

Name her Noodle!

[@ediekoller1144]

I live in Rattlesnake country but I do not have any snakes but I do love all animals. Thanks for the info regarding bull snakes and rattlers. I am sure the patreon's will give this sweet snake a great name. Thanks Jessi:)

[@KaaSerpent]

She's a beauty. I have a certain...affinity for snakes. :)

[@michaelbushee3968]

To second a couple of comments, I really like Maeve or Wadjet. I love mythological names.

[@unplannedsyntax]

Snakes are awesome (and a bit mysterious!) I've learned a lot from your videos! Thanks

[@jslferrell]

She’s just a baby! Awww

[@joyavenzant5086]

That spatula technique is freaking genius

[@StarSong936]

Name suggestion - Diamond, given the similarity of her pattern. I used to have a garter snake I called slither. She loved fish, so I stocked her water bowl with feeder fish. I tried feeding her a cricket once, but had to take it out because slither didn't want to eat it, and the cricked started eating the snake. We would spend afternoons hanging out in the afternoon sunlight with her on my belly. I had to take her back to the pet store because I had to move, and the place I was moving to did not allow snakes. I hope she got adopted by a good caretaker. At the pet store, when they took slither out of the container, their comment was "Oh look, she's not even afraid!" I guess I was doing something right, because she had not been handled much before I got her. Where I grew up, we had a lot of garter snakes and milk snakes. Milk snakes look like rattle snakes in their markings, but are harmless. There was one time my mom met me at the door to the house, and asked me to take the snake next to my brother's crib outside. I looked at the snake, looked at my mom and said "Okay." Picked up the snake and released it in our garden. I did not find out until years later that she thought I had put the snake there. I told her, no I had not put the snake there, it crawled up from the basement. She told me if she had known that, she would never have asked me to remove it (dead snake if she had known). Milk snakes are generally calm as long as you don't stress them out and can be handled easily if you are gentle with them. Do make sure of your identification, milk snakes look a lot like rattle snakes, but without the fat head and no rattles. If they are in dead leaves, the will vibrate their tail in the leaves to mimic the sound of a rattle snake to try and scare you away.

[@Smokescale]

My name suggestion: B'Elanna, named for the chief engineer of the USS Voyager: B'Elanna Torres, because she had a feisty attitude too.

[@BugzysEvilDeeds]

Here in Arizona, they like to shake the mesquite beans drying in the trees. Scares you that there's a rattlesnake over you in the tree. lol

[@sth.777]

My husband always jokes that, if I get a pet snake (I used to have tarantulas), he would name it "Ababambalela", which is kind of Swiss German for "letting hang down". ;-)

[@pebblesthecat3625]

Name suggestions: Slythering Hufflepuff Nagini ( Voldemorts snake ) Parceltongue (All from Harry Potter's Hogwarts School)

[@maggieedna]

oooooh shes so lovely. those glossy scales and so energetic.

[@HayyanPro167]

Please help, our cockatiel is losing her tail feathers, less than half are left. What should we do?

[@davidforgot79]

Brahma, as in the Brahma bull 😁

[@itsadancepartyy]

Eight feet!!! 😳 All things really do start small!!

[@daisydropper]

Tickles is a great name .

[@Oracle428]

In Greek, Ophio means serpent... Ophelia means serpentine... how about Ophelia?

[@Myrtle2911]

They already have an Ophelia. She's an opossum. :)

[@earthlingsartist]

Good, but it would be confusing to have two Ophelias of VERY different species

[@misschief4283]

_Taurus_ or _Taura_ from the Latin for bull, _Tavros_ (pronounced Tav-rhos) from the Greek for bull, _Boli_ which is the old Norse word we get the word Bull from or perhaps _Tarw_ (pronounced Tar-oo) which is Welsh for bull :)

[@Ravenzpeak]

Happy 💗 Day to all our Animal Wonders babies!

[@MadMorgie6318]

She's such a cutie~!

[@kagehikari4281]

You bet they get huge, I personally ran in to one on my farm that had to be at least 8ft. Had to been about 14 or around there. Freaked me out big time! I first thought it was a rattler! Treated it like one and used a long stick to put it in a barrel. (I know, stupid. but we had chickens and i wasint gona let it hurt any) Then one of the farm hands id it. So releaved. And thats how I learned bull snakes exist. lol Neat snakes. I wanted to keep that one but my folks said no. u_u For a bull snake, I remember it was actually really chill and dididnt even strike once.

[@lu-gp4ld]

Feen - the german word for fairy and in Northern mythology the personification of gracefulness

[@brandilee520]

Someone else mentioned Emily from Snake Discovery for more information about Bullsnakes. But I also like how they go about naming their snakes they give them names like Janet, Brad, Peanut and Doug because her thought is that a snake with a normal name seems less scary to people who might not be a fan of snakes.

[@purplesuitcase5815]

Name idea: Cleopatra I know bullsnakes don´t live in Egypt but I think it would fit as she´s soo beautiful

[@brastongray2480]

Great video! I keep and breed bullsnakes and some other pituophis species. To me the one you have there looks like a gopher snake, maybe a San Diego gopher snake (which could explain her California origins) or Great Basin due to her patterning and her head looking more like a true gopher snake than a bull. But bullsnakes are technically a subspecies of gophersnakes, so it isn't really wrong either way. She's beautiful!

[@moiraaoibheane]

She looks like a Jasper. What a cutie!

[@YashaVatrushka]

I have a southern pine, I couldn't find a bullsnake here in the uk, they are unfortunately not very popular :( but my pine snake is incredible. I love her so much

[@chrispbacon955]

Very cool snake. 🐍❤👍

[@josephno1347]

I just got a 5' bull snake from the wild in tonopah az it's awesome

[@soupbowl2750]

I love her wow

[@NightNike]

I would've call her Wonder, just because I think it suits her. :)

[@carmenclemons2556]

The "Snakes in mythology" Wikipedia page mentions a Rainbow Snake in the myths of Africa and Australia, so I'm suggesting "Rainbow" for her name.

[@TheMdnghtShadow]

Wadjet! She is the snake goddess of Ancient Egypt and the fierce protector of Lower Egypt.

[@redwolfjoy]

I miss seeing bull snakes in Oklahoma. Besides bull snakes, king snakes also are great at keeping rattle snakes away.

[@popatkapopat]

I like the name piper..she looks like a piper

[@viviennesuntailart3346]

I have a name suggestion, Taura (like taurus because it is a bullsnake, and taurus is is bull, and it sort of sounds like a girls name?)

[@jenacorn]

I vote on Outhouse (cause my family found a giant bullsnake in my aunt's outhouse many years ago).

[@JooBrothers]

no one ever disliked this. Whew!

[@b21.9]

I vote for Belle if she's a girl, and Ferdinand if he's a boy! By the way, you definitely should make a collab with Snake Discovery! I believe Emily and Ed live on Winsconsin/Montana.. It'd be awesome😍😍😍

[@FlyKiwi]

Not relevant to the video but, I love your shirt! I think she looks like a Spots

[@canadiancruelty]

gotta name her Bean. Bean the bullsnake

[@DenisRyan]

I think Torus. It has a similar sound to Taurus, the bull zodiac sign, but it's the curved shape, like a donut, and that bull snake clearly likes to curve around your hand.

[@mrscary3105]

Name idea: Aster... She was the inspiration for friendship day and the first nerd-fighter. (I think it would honor her)

[@LaineyBug2020]

You keep calling her this beauty, how about Beauty or Belle?

[@thebermudaI]

I love this! I vote for Beauty!

[@auriellev8197]

Marble would make a cute name.. cause of her patterns.. or Cerci after the Greek goddess of serpents!

[@LouisGedo]

*The best people in the world........tend to be those who are kind toward animals*

[@Alyss93]

How about Artemis?

[@ironythegoddess3815]

I feel like a good name for her would be Fluffy, but that's because I like giving animals odd names (had a hamster named cat, and in a game of stardew I have a chicken named Goat). Also, Maria or Marie popped into my head, and the geek part of me says Dona Noble would fit.

[@Silly_Billy0225]

I just have one quick question, how expensive is it to care for all the animals food and stuff (per week)?

[@ShesAaRebel]

My suggestion for a name is Torrance. If you're a fan of Bring it On, then you'll get the reference. ;)

[@rebekahlee7360]

I think she should be named Hathor after the Egyptian goddess of cows. Or maybe Hera, as the cow is Hera’s sacred animal.

[@Zahri8Alang]

How about Garde? Bullsnakes helps keep other snakes from their area right? Seems fitting

[@WireMosasaur]

She has big shoes to fill? I had no idea Slither wore shoes

[@errinwellman1960]

Okay when are we going to get a Snake Discovery collab.

[@shelbipreston3073]

The two dislikes on this video are rattlesnakes who couldn't move into the neighborhood because of a bullsnake.

[@babalabaloo11111]

Sophia would be a cute name!

[@FoiledFeline]

I was gonna ask if bullsnakes were also called gopher snakes. I love in Sacramento and we see these guys fairly often, but have always called them gopher snakes, not bull snakes. Interesting that there's subtypes of gopher snakes, TIL! Thanks for teaching people that these cool noodles aren't danger noodles and will keep the danger noodles at bay by eating their prey.

[@Stephanie568]

Name ideas: Spunky, Amber, Agni, Edana

[@lucindajennings148]

Pinecone - cause her pattern kind looks like one Ariadne, she's the princess who helped defeat the Minotaur Pasiphaë the mother of the Minotaur, Minoa (culture that worshiped bulls) Apis (ancient egyptian bull god)

[@Beryllahawk]

Would you happen to have any general suggestions for educational resources - or I should say, TYPES of resources - for finding out more about local snake species? I don't know if we even have bull snakes my part of the Southeastern US, but I know we have rattlesnakes (two species, no less), water moccasins, and some of the more common non-venomous sorts like racers. There are also quite a few sorts of "king snake" which appears to be a general term for any non-venomous snake that eats other snakes...? But when I just try a general search I get all sorts of conflicting information, and absolutely nothing useful in terms of "how do I make sure an area is safe for the snake AND me" type questions. Identification isn't so much my issue: if it's a snake of any sort, I'm not touching it! But things like...oh, for instance, back in west Texas it was just a known thing, you didn't leave piles of ANYTHING in your yard, not rocks or bricks or wood or even milk crates, because the Western Diamondback really, really likes dark places to hide, den up, and generally hang out. So if you didn't have any good snake hang-outs in your yard, you were good to go. But here it's a different story. It's like people don't talk about sensible precautions. The only stories I hear from family members have to do with shooting the poor snakes! It's frustrating.

[@eleigh5351]

She seems like a "Dolly" to me but I love the Isadora suggestion..

[@Chillazilla2]

I like Billie or Gypsy as a name.

[@MrCockatiel2007]

I said that name just now

[@hollyodii5969]

P.S. Update video on Zima?

[@shriyashsingh9379]

Snicker will be a good name

[@talygirl369210]

How about Tora?

[@ragnkja]

talygirl369210 Either that or Tyra

[@drewsutton1888]

How about Blue? I thought of it as an homage to Paul Bunyan's Blue (an ox, which is just a cow or bull used for draft). It should resonate with kids because they likely know of Blue Ivy Carter, Beyoncé & Jay-Z's daughter.

[@angelinaromero417]

Pepper, Amy, Amelia, and I like Ferdinad too

[@alice83ruby]

Stella or Ruby are cool names

[@madeleinesells6939]

I like beauty and belle too

[@yku.luvryry]

Eye like bullseye

[@jeanielee9008]

My kiddos like name Mossy, or Sara!

[@xdeltaptx]

I'm from portugal so I don't have one of this, but I have a huge (like 2m long) rat snake and I swear we are friends: i don't disturbed her and i keep cats and humans from hurting her and in return she eats rats the size of my husband shoes. It's a pretty nice relationship but I already had to threaten a man whit a gun that really wanted to kill Cinza (grey in porruguese). So I would call her "amiga" because she is a friend of the house, like my little friend!!

[@ianpecoraro1220]

Bulma the Bullsnake!

[@Valdagast]

Ariadne, from the tale of Theseus and the Minotaur.

[@pvtpain66k]

I volunteer the name "James Gunn" because he directed "Slither" (2006).