As Ken states, non-venomous water snakes can develop an attitude real quick. I'm all about picking up snakes, but those suckers can be a handful. One clamped down on me a few years back, right in the web of skin between thumb and forefinger. Left a nice, horseshoe shaped ring of bloody dots.

And that smell....

"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.