This is a lovely big 5 and a half foot grass snake which shot stinking anal fluid onto me on my journey through the woods!, hissed alot but didnt strike although it made some pretty convincing positions coiled up looking like he would attack, and me being a nature noob wasnt sure if it was venom i got shot at me from a adder .. no once i looked it up i see what it was ... anal fluid .. nasty and realy does stink to high heavens (id stay away from these little ******* unless you want to smell like absoluty nastyness for a while). Regards, Matt.