I thought the rat snakes were yellow, that one appears orange, or are there different ones?
Edit: I see Cooter made comment later.
Had one of these bastids on the side of the house a couple of months ago.
We live in a cul-de-sac, and there is a street behind us, so we technically have a next door neighbor that's on that back street. They don't take care of their damn yard at all, and they are zoned agricultural so we can't even get the damn county to do anything about it.
At any rate, I decided to let it live to take care of any crap over in their yard