[HELP] Type of snake?

was going down to my place and found my smaller cat toying with this snake, i am in costa rica and am having trouble findin what type of snake, i have found red black yellow, but not this style of band.. anyone any ideas

dam! it seems to be an Eastern Coral Snake, which are venmous!!

Eastern Coral Snake

http://centralfloridaz​oo.org …s/Eastern_coral​_snake.htm

Red on yellow kill a fellow.

I'd move your hand and check the cat
Brian V.

You either know exactly what you're doing or done something you shouldn't have. If it's the latter, put the lid on the pot and call a professional.

Yup-looks like some version of the coral snake and they ARE poisonous. Better be careful.
Karen

YIKES I hope all is ok, That is a poisonous snake, beautiful but poisonous

Be very careful and check out this web site.

http://www.dominical.b​iz/reptiles/SnakeBite.​htm

Ron

Indeed a Coral, and certainly poisonous. On a good note though, this snake's fangs are in the rear of it's jaw, so invenomation is less likely.

That IS a Coral snake Not to be confused with a Kink snake....red touches yellow, Deadly fellow ! Dont kill it, take it out into the brush and let it go.

That's an eye opener! holy wow....

Yeah, definitely a Coral snake there. I always was told "Red against black, you're okay Jack. Red against yellow, you're a dead fellow." Yeah,be VERY careful with that beauty. bright colors often have meanings in nature...
Reed

in the future i would probably suggest that if you dont know what you are doing dont touch it...especially if you are not sure if it is poisonous or not...coral snakes are a pretty common poisonous snake (at least here in Florida they are). also there is a variety of kingsnake that uses the same colors but, as others said, with the red and black bands touching. kingsnakes are non-poisonous but, as with any snake, can still give a painful bite!

Has anyone noticed Mathiau has not replied to any of the posts for 17 hours..? Should we be worried?

lol, i am fine

when first saw it, since i have 2 cats and a dog, i didn't want to leave it around here, when my kitten was playing with it (about 7 months old), the cat seemed smart in that it would always stay behind it, not getting hers it's head and more a curious swat to the tail of the snake now and then, snake really just wanted to get away.

I had thought of trying to pick it up with my hands when i first saw it, but was smarter then tat and thought "this is costa rica after all" so i went and found my massively long BBQ tongs and got it by the tail and placed it in the deep pot, i had the lid on it, and took it off only to take pictures, i was about 4ft from it when i took the pics.

I was very very cautious with it not knowing what it was and more so once i found out what i was.

i did let it go, down the street near some jungle area (not close houses)

So, what will i find next! window's in my garden, snakes on my patio, centipedes and millipede's are the house now and then..... scropions stinging me twice..lol

Althought wondering if a net is around as just over a week ago my cat was playing with s much much smaller baby snake, but i did did see the colors on it.