Snake net catches another one. (pictures)

[shesaredroan]

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I'm right there with you mtngrl!!!
I've never figured out a way to get them out of the netting without cutting the netting. Since I've never found one who was still alive, I simply put the netting down on the ground in the sun and let nature take it's course.

I realize there are those who like snakes and those who don't......I'm in the latter group........they scare me GREATLY!!! I have a good friend who is a herpetologist, when we see a snake at my place he runs TO it as I run AWAY from it. He loves snakes but understands why I don't want them around my place.

I used to have a wonderful toad population around my house. They would come out in the evenings and eat the bugs around my front and back door....then the natrix (sp?) (black water snakes) came, ate my toads and started hanging around my front & back porches. AAACKK!!!
Cats are my method of rodent control. I let my cats come in the house, sit on my lap.....I enjoy petting them and listening to them purr. I suppose there or those who do the same with snakes (without the purring LOL) but that's NOT for me. Give me cats that purr and toads that croak.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[sadies chicks]

Man I would love a rat snake on my property. We have rats up the *****. My DH sits at the upstairs window with his binoculars and a bb gun and has "target practice". Needless to say...he needs more practice....

the traps get the rats, not hubbie

 

[mtngrl812]

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[mtngrl812]

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I agree 100%, they don't bother me and I deal with them in my own way. Venemous snakes "go away", non venemous are welcome to stay and eat all the mice they want. If you want to kill them on sight that's up to you however to let any animal/predator slowly die isn't right in my book.

Steve

I doubt anyone intends for them to die slowly, that is pretty cruel. But unless people go out multiple times, night and day to check nets, they aren't going to know a snake it trapped. And if you find one trapped in a net, it will surely be very angry, so how would you deal with it? It would be a tricky thing, for me at least. Ick!

I have quite a few toads around my place at night and I have seen a few "Blue-Tail Lizards" during the day, I also have my old kitty. She wont eat the mice anymore, but she still kills them. I have seen a few Bull Snakes, but not close to my place, they wouldn't be too bad I guess... as long as I didn't see them

 

[N. Virginia]

Dumb ? What is a snake net? I have black snakes thateat my eggs ever day, but he chickens are still in a stall (and out daytimes). Am budding a pen and sure would like to keep the snakes out!

Tx,
V

 

[Lady Chickadee]

Oh wow!! What a snake! Eeeep!

lol

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[daver]

Found a rat snake in the coop two weeks ago. About a five footer.

I knew something was up because none of the chickens had come off their roosts when they heard me come out of the house a six am.

Opened the pop door and was eyeball to eyeball with him. Of course I freaked, dragged him out and dispatched him.

Wish I had just dragged him out and relocated him, we do have mouse issues from time to time.

Dave

 

[emvickrey]

Everybody has their preferences about different creatures. No snake is welcome here. I have a cat that is a wonderful hunter and I like the frogs and so do my grandsons. lol We leave on a big light where most of the chicken pens are to deter larger predators at night and it draws alot of insects which the frogs love. We've had a frog living in the shed and it's getting bigger everytime I see it. I just watch where I walk so I don't squash it. I"ve seen smaller ones from time to time but only the 1 big frog.

I almost stepped on a copperhead one morning while changing the water in the duck pen. I looked down and it was about a foot away from my foot and it was looking right at me. Of course, like I said, I don't want ANY snakes so I did away with it with the shovel that was right there also. I found a rat snake in the coop as it had just had a meal of fresh eggs. Again, no more snake. I found another one coiled up on a branch just behind the coop where I have another pen that has chicks in it. I chased that one away and haven't seen it again. then just a few feet away at the same time I saw the last one was a copperhead crawling into a pile of bricks. That one got away. It may be the one I almost stepped on. If it was, it didn't get away after all.

Dh saw a huge rat snake slither under our trailer the other day. So we went around with the moth balls and tossed them under the trailer all around it to run the snake out from under our home. Then we put them out around the shed and I put several in water bottles with holes poked in them in the coop where a snake can get in and one in the pile of bricks and another in the brish pile behind the coop. We haven't seen any snakes as of yet anyway. I"m hoping we managed to run them off.

If I had one that had gotten itself stuck, I would dispatch it and end it quick. The thought that it might get out of the netting would give me nightmares. There is NO WAY I would touch it to get it loose.

My daughter is a snake person and I truely believe it's because i'm afraid of them. At 31 years old she is still one of those teenagers (at heart and mind) that just has to do the opposite of what the parents want.