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A Visitor and another stray, Hedog see pics
susie
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Caught a mama cat in the varmint trap. She is now being fed and hopefully gaining some weight. She will hang out in the hall bath until she sees the vet next week. I think she is pregnant.
Had a sneaky snake in the chicken coop. I invited it to leave. I do not kill it. It has been living in or near the barn for years. It's at least 6 feet long.
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Forgot to mention it's body is larger than my wrist.
You've got a very kind soul, Susie. Good on ya for taking care of the kitty and relocating Mr. Snake.
I think that it's either either a Black Rat snake or a Northern Pine snake but most likely a Black Rat snake. . He dog will straighten it out.
mrsdeere found one in the hen house last week. She reached in to get things and put her hand on it. She yellled "Aye! Black snake!"
Two year old granddaughter was with her. All day long we hear her say " Blace snate! Black snate!"
Where she lives a black rat. No pine snakes in Missouri. Where I grew up in central Mo, adult black rats were black with white venters.
I am lost here, what is a snakes venter, He Dog?
I think we have 2 kinds here in WNC.
One is solid black and the other has a white belly.
He Dog are they the same snake just different colors?
Then thare fellers can get quite big, say at least 6 + feet long.
Brother Dog, venter refers to the ventral (belly) side as opposed to the dorsal (back) side (not to be confused with a backside). I think were you are you are seeing two different species. The black rat snake with a white underside and a black racer with a black underside. The racers are often accused of chasing people, ("That snake chased me for a quarter of a mile." from a guy who could not have run 100 steps). In fact I have encountered a number of racers that came right toward me. They either went right by or between my feet, but none ever attacked. It is actually a great confusion tactic.
My Papa told my brothers and me that a black racer would chase you down and kill you. They would wrap around your neck and beat you to death with their tail. He said that you could not play dead because they would stick their tail up your nose to see if you were breathing. Don
I guess we know now where your ornery streak comes from!!!
When I was a kid I was told that a black racer would bite onto his own tail, and form into a circle like a hula hoop, and roll towards you to catch you, especially if you were fleeing downhill.
My uncle (you know that one crazy relative we all have one of) told me the same thing. About age 10 or so I realized most of what he told me was a fib, tall tail or pure bull flop !!!
The snake looks like a recent visitor we had on the front porch..
How is the kitty doing susie ?
HeDog, that would have been my guess, thanksssssssssssssssssss.
My experience with racers are just as yours Dog. They just slid on by and show no aggression.
Shadow the kitten is growing in leaps and bounds, literally and figuratively. 😆 He and Max chase each other all over the house and furniture. When they are finished playing they cuddle up and Max gives Shadow a good cleaning.
Awesome. They just got a promote
Sometimes our fathers are wrong. Most of those old myths had some basis in reality. Racers will come right at you, if you turn and run, you never know what happens next. Racers and whip snakes will crawl through the grass, even tall grass with head elevated so they can see over the grass. Perhaps that looked to someone like a rolling hope. Not to mention the effects of alcohol on observers, yarns and outright lies.
Glad you didn't kill the snake, to many people kill them. I was tearing out concrete this spring and dug up a Rat snake, at first I thought it was dead. Once it warmed up it I saw it was ok, darn thing kept crawling towards the excavator and it's former home under the concrete. After 3-4 times of getting out and putting it in the grass I took it over to some old concrete parking blocks. It must of liked them as it scooted right into them. I was about done when I saw a 3 foot one, so scooped it up with the excavator and took it over to a brush pile.
Last year the neighbor called m she had a snake in her basement and her husband was gone. The way she described it it had to be close to 3-4' long. I went down there, picked it up and took it outside, all 6-8" of it. Had to take it a long ways from the house, when I came back she was unhappy I didn't kill it. I actually felt sorry for the poor snake, if she wasn't so scared of snakes it would of been dead.