"Still alive or dead?"
Still very much alive. I felt like a redneck Steve Irwin out there in pajamas and mud boots. I took gloves, a broom, and a 33 gallon brute trashcan out there. I poked a few times with the broom and it was docile i suspect from the cool temperatures. It took ages to get it up on top of the wire so I could actually grab it by the tail and using the broom handle like a dumb snake hook get it down into the trashcan. I popped the lid on it and put it on the porch until I could get home from work. I drove it several miles down the road and let it go in the hopes that I'd accrue good snake karma and nothing else would come to visit.
"That is huge
What kind of snake is it?"
Best I could tell it was just a common rat snake. When the roommate sent me the photo from the yard my first though was that as thick as it was it was going to be something else. I'm just glad it was easy going and wasn't nippy or aggressive during the capture or the release process.
Still very much alive. I felt like a redneck Steve Irwin out there in pajamas and mud boots. I took gloves, a broom, and a 33 gallon brute trashcan out there. I poked a few times with the broom and it was docile i suspect from the cool temperatures. It took ages to get it up on top of the wire so I could actually grab it by the tail and using the broom handle like a dumb snake hook get it down into the trashcan. I popped the lid on it and put it on the porch until I could get home from work. I drove it several miles down the road and let it go in the hopes that I'd accrue good snake karma and nothing else would come to visit.
"That is huge
What kind of snake is it?"Best I could tell it was just a common rat snake. When the roommate sent me the photo from the yard my first though was that as thick as it was it was going to be something else. I'm just glad it was easy going and wasn't nippy or aggressive during the capture or the release process.
