And a Texas rat snake is a whole lot bigger than my skinny little gopher snake. I guess Texas has bigger rats than Sonora has gophers!
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Netting is great for catchen snakes, i was able to get this King snake out but but i sure did smell from him musking my armWe do have big rat snakes in Texas. A friend about a mile away dispatches huge ones. He has all kinds of birds of all sizes and breeds chicks all summer so his farm is a great place for predators to chow down. He's shown me how to set a trap using wadded up deer netting with an egg inside. I've seen where minnow traps are used to catch snakes. Have been meaning to get some but always forget. I don't want anything to happen to my White Bobwhites. They are pets and a pure delight to have. They don't deserve to die just because a snake is hungry. Anyone have any advice? They are in a 8 by 28 foot pen with 9 foot height built with 1" by 2" welded wire and metal siding/roofing. I'm plugging openings larger then the 1 by 2 inches but would cost me a fortune to put small mesh over all the wire.
Wish I could trade you 20 black and/or gray rat snakes for 10 of your speckled kings. Now that's a good deal! lol Those speckled kings are said to be the best at eating other snakes, including venomous ones.Netting is great for catchen snakes, i was able to get this King snake out but but i sure did smell from him musking my armthere were some i could not get out This was just some netting i used in my garden and had taken it down the day before , silly snake still got tangled in it I no longer use netting so this does not happen, i just let the dogs take care of the once that get to close.
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I'm good with the "live and let live" position, but if a venomous snake is too close to the house, and my family or dogs are at risk (both dogs have been bitten at least once, and it's pricey to get them treated!) then Mr. Slithers has got to go. My wife hates all snakes, but I'm trying to get her to accept the rat snakes and especially kings and indigos.I'm the quintessential old Hippie peace freak in a small country neighborhood. You will see a older couple in tie-dye saving caterpillars and planting enough dill for us and the scissortail butterflies. We live by the mantra "do no harm" except for the things that do me and mine harm. So.... I have a Rattler in the garden, he's dead. I have a Texas Rat snake with one of my turkey poults heads down it's throat, dead. Black widows....you gatta be kidding me. I have a 3 year old granddaughter running around digging into everything. That spider and its offspring, dead. I will not relocate these critters to become someone else's problem. I catch anyone releasing said critters around my property we will have a problem. It may look like a great piece of land to release something like that...but it's not. I'm not demonizing your lifestyle, but please don't bring those critters to my home.
I'm good with the "live and let live" position, but if a venomous snake is too close to the house, and my family or dogs are at risk (both dogs have been bitten at least once, and it's pricey to get them treated!) then Mr. Slithers has got to go. My wife hates all snakes, but I'm trying to get her to accept the rat snakes and especially kings and indigos.