Not everyday you go for a walk and get hissed at!

Any idea what snake this is?  I thought maybe a hog nosed snake.  But I think they just do the rattle thing with their tails to imitate a rattle snakes.  Then they play dead.  And make a funny smell?

  This guy was all too happy to hiss, and had no interest in playing dead.  And wasn’t humored at all.

I guess it was just a hog nosed snake?

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/outdoors/2019/09/27/hognose-snakes-funny-comical-play-dead-mississippi/2429711001/

yeah, it looks like a hognose. When I was a kid my stepfather picked one up and it bit him. He almost passed out! We laughed about that for years.

Snakes and rodents don’t really bother me.  But now I’m a little older, I definitely don’t want bit.  It’s not so much the fear of pain.  Knowing my luck, I would get some strange infection and be patient zero.

Maybe you would become The Amazing Hognose Man.

Already got an upturned nose and scaly skin.  Might as well have the bifurcated tongue.