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True, I've just accepted it, kinda like the hawks, eagles and house sparrows that never leaveI'd rather have 10 cats than one snake
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True, I've just accepted it, kinda like the hawks, eagles and house sparrows that never leaveI'd rather have 10 cats than one snake
Saw a big black snake near my back door a couple years ago.Every bit of 5-6 footTrue, I've just accepted it, kinda like the hawks, eagles and house sparrows that never leave
I admire that you, unlike many folks, relocated the snake rather than killing it.
In the second photo, it kind of looks like a bull snake. Of course, all I see around here is garters and bull snakes, so maybe that colored my opinion.
But in my experience, bull snakes almost always put up an aggressive front, shaking their rattle-less tails and hissing with their venom-less mouths. I like their attitude, but it still gets them (safely) moved away from the house and poultry.
Ideas on what type of snake this is? Found it sunning itself by my arbors, wasn't very aggressive. Pretty sure I've seen this one or another like it in the past. I attempted to move it along and it slithered back under my old barn foundation (the barn is gone.) It wasn't aggressive compared to others I've come across.
Robins eat my raspberries. I'd rather have snakes.My mom was terrified of even the smallest garter snake, so I became the official family snake handler at an early age. I have relocated countless, never killed one.
My biggest catch out here has been a bull snake that was longer than I am tall (okay, I'm only 5'5"). It had just swallowed a baby robin from a nest in one of my arborvitaes. I'm told that after I grabbed it out of the shrub, I lectured it all the way past the barn. That's probably true; I was too mad to notice.
Western fox snakeIdeas on what type of snake this is? Found it sunning itself by my arbors, wasn't very aggressive. Pretty sure I've seen this one or another like it in the past. I attempted to move it along and it slithered back under my old barn foundation (the barn is gone.) It wasn't aggressive compared to others I've come across.View attachment 3836809View attachment 3836811
The snakes your cats are photo'd with are racers. Looks to be blue racers, but I they could be black racers in shed. The last photo of the baby snakes are some kind of colubrid. Most likely rat snakes or juvenile racers. Hard to say for certain as most of these look very similar in their juvenile stages. None are venomous.It was about 4.5' long ... I first was surprised it was up in my pipes in the basement ...
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When I tried to pull it out, it got quite cantankerous!
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Caught this little one in the crawl space next to my basement, under my bedrooms ... This is a rat snake too ...
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I let my 10 month old barn kitties play with it, figured it was good practice for them to learn about snakes ... Better than a copperhead for their first encounter!
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Then two days later found ANOTHER rat snake in the crawl space!
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That one would throw it's whole body at the cats in attack, cats thought it was fun to swat it down! Glad it wasn't a copperhead!
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Last fall I was rototilling my garden, and my very young kittens were digging in the soft soil ... I took the bucket on my tractor to dig a little more, up came a whole nest of baby copperheads!
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I'm down in Southwest Missouri.