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Post by cliffs on Dec 18, 2020 13:30:08 GMT -6
I had two traps licked clean by the little f-ers... had that problem, ended up getting new traps and caught em, I guess the traps they were able to lick clean of a little stiff with age. An owl box is also a great investment for rodent control, assuming you can get an owl to nest in it. Barn owls are rodent killing machines
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Post by Seven on Dec 18, 2020 16:31:57 GMT -6
~7 yrs ago this cat wandered up while I was bbq-ing and brewing on the big deck. He was out in the yard talking trash so I chunked him a piece of meat. Next thing I know he was in my lap. He’s been hangin out ever since patrolling the area daily. I am always waking up to a mouse, mole, rabbit, squirrel, etc near the back door. That and we have rat snakes I see from time to time slithering around outside that seem to be very healthy for some reason. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Cats are good like that! My 2 are indoor only but the one brings up crickets from the basement often, sometimes dead, sometimes alive. She gets treats for her effort.
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Post by chils on Dec 18, 2020 16:46:29 GMT -6
Here's one of my buddies that I don't mind hanging around. By my wellhouse. I'm sure it's taken care of plenty of pests around my house.
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Post by cliffs on Dec 21, 2020 10:48:05 GMT -6
is that a python?!?!?!
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Post by Ken on Dec 21, 2020 11:01:54 GMT -6
I can't even imagine what my wife's reaction would be to seeing that. My sister and BIL live about an hour south of Atlanta and see some wild stuff... red velvet ants, black snakes, strange flying insects, exotic spiders, etc. My sister is used to it now. Chils, remind us what kind of snake this is in the video.
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Post by cliffs on Dec 21, 2020 11:17:40 GMT -6
I live near the Los Padres National Forest in California and see rattlesnakes all the time. Seeing them isnt the scary part, hearing them is!
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Post by Ken on Dec 21, 2020 12:29:04 GMT -6
I live near the Los Padres National Forest in California and see rattlesnakes all the time. Seeing them isnt the scary part, hearing them is! Mmm. Last year my wife, my son and I were in the Badlands in SD. We were walking on a trail and there was some type of commotion going on. A rattlesnake had some out of the brush and onto the trail and one of the people there got a video of it. Coming from the NW burbs of Chicago, I am woefully ill-prepared to have contact with snakes. My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Mexico and took a boat ride out to an island for snorkeling, exploring and lunch. At some point we saw a black snake with pink and yellow stripes. We noticed it, gave it space and continued on. Later, on the boat ride back we described it to the two guides that were with it. As we described it in more detail, they just looked at each other with wide eyes... coral snake, apparently. They asked us about the specific coloring and what was next to what. Red touches yellow, kill a fellow.
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Post by brewbama on Dec 21, 2020 17:32:49 GMT -6
Just a rat snake. Good to have around. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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Post by Ken on Dec 21, 2020 18:09:55 GMT -6
Just a rat snake. Good to have around. Non-poisonous? I can deal with non-poisonous snakes.
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Post by chils on Dec 21, 2020 18:39:08 GMT -6
I can't even imagine what my wife's reaction would be to seeing that. My sister and BIL live about an hour south of Atlanta and see some wild stuff... red velvet ants, black snakes, strange flying insects, exotic spiders, etc. My sister is used to it now. Chils, remind us what kind of snake this is in the video. Non-venomous. Some people call it a chicken snake, some people call it a black rat snake. I reckon most of us Southerners like to call it a black snake.
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Post by chils on Dec 21, 2020 21:50:08 GMT -6
Here's a few more for ya'll. Black snakes like to eat birds and they would get on my porch and try to get in bird bottles I had hanging under the porch roof. I'd hear a loud "thunk" and go out there. The snake would climb my swing chain and lean out trying to get in the bottle 3ft away and fall off the chain. This black snake's nose is near a post which is 8ft from the other one and he's got a few curves that aren't ironed out. Big boy. We call this a brown snake. They rustle in the leaves and eat snails. Non-venomous. This is a big copperhead I almost stepped on. Shot his head off with a .22 pistol. Would have put me in the hospital.
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Post by Ken on Dec 22, 2020 8:41:57 GMT -6
Oh yeah, the Copperhead has the "hershey's kisses". I would end up in the hospital like... I was just trying to do some landscaping and ...
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Post by chils on Dec 22, 2020 10:00:31 GMT -6
Oh yeah, the Copperhead has the "hershey's kisses". I would end up in the hospital like... I was just trying to do some landscaping and ...Yep, sucker just laid there as I had been walking around him for 15 minutes. Would have let me step right on him and then hit me.
I wish I had measured the length of this one. The world record on one is 4'5". This one was >3ft stretched out. Fat as my wrist.
All the copperheads I've encountered would lie and not move. You'd think they are slow and sluggish---until you see them in action. I was walking my dirt road a few years ago and walked up on a little one lying in the middle of the road. He didn't move. I picked up a big rock and raised it overhead to smash him. On the downstroke that little devil whipped around 90deg and took off towards the woods like lightning.
He was gone well before the rock hit the ground. I don't know why they will let something big walk up on them like that. I know they get their food by lying still until something walks up on them but they surely must know when something is too big too eat.
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Post by Ken on Dec 22, 2020 10:11:31 GMT -6
So what happens when you walk out onto the front porch and one of those black snakes is out there? He (or she) lets you take a picture of it and it doesn't really do anything? Could you walk up to it and take it down off the chain or what? Could you pick it up or touch it at all? I really have no idea on the behavior of snakes.
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Post by chils on Dec 22, 2020 10:15:15 GMT -6
So what happens when you walk out onto the front porch and one of those black snakes is out there? He (or she) lets you take a picture of it and it doesn't really do anything? Could you walk up to it and take it down off the chain or what? Could you pick it up or touch it at all? I really have no idea on the behavior of snakes. They will slowly move away from you and if you touch them they do this. I picked up his tail right here in the video and he coiled up like he was going to strike me. They also rattle their tail as a warning.
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