I am new to this site, so forgive me if this has been covered before. This evening, my cat brought me a small snake, dead, approx 12 inches long, greyish smooth skin with patterned head. have checked out the site www.planetepassion.eu and from the photos it appears to be a young whip snake, which I understand is not harmful to humans. Would they be harmful to my young cats? We have sighted several snakes in/around my hay over the last few weeks, as well as some shed skin, but I could not identify them from the photos, one was at least 1.5 metres long, and very green in colour, but not terribly 'thick'. another was approx a metre long, unfortunately, it was so fast I did not see its head, its body was grey/black with very fine markings, but not 'stripey' we have seen more snakes this past month than in the last four years we have been here, why would this be? Although I am quite fascinated by them and think they are beautiful, i am also a little afraid of them.