Unlike most snakes, a black snake will also stop, face you and rear up
to defend himself if you chase him and get too close. I've had that
happen at distances of 3-4 meters. Most snakes will just keep
skedaddling as fast as they can unless you get so close they have no choice.
Chuck Norcutt
Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> That's the beauty of it, I don't have to. He comes and goes as he pleases.
> Snakes will actively hunt a territory and his territory includes a portion
> of the woods next to my house, my front and back yards, my garage and even
> the walls of the house. Where the mice go he will follow. They are
> wonderfully efficient predators. I come across him regularly in the yard and
> garage. When he senses me he slithers off at a rate faster than I can run.
> I've heard stories of farmers catching them and releasing them in their
> barns for rodent control; but I'll be damned if I know how they catch them.
> They are very fast.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Nicoletta Da Ros <nicodaros@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> uh... but how did you get *him* to move out when his job was done?!?
>>
>> nico.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>>
>> Yow! Mother Nature *can* be a real bitch. For controlling mice,
>> nothing
>> beats a Black Snake (aka Black Racer). I had an army of mice living
>> in my
>> garage until a Racer moved in (I found a shed skin in the grage door
>> springs). They're very thin and can work their way into the smallest
>> crack.
>> He didn't even have to catch all the mice; once they sensed him the mice
>> moved out.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Chris Crawford
>> <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> wrote:
>>> Wow, I've never had a cat get eaten. Not much in Indiana that will
>>> tangle
>>> with a cat. My grandpa's old cat, Molly, has killed two
>>> rattlesnakes. When
>>> I
>>> lived in Santa Fe, people used to talk of cats being eaten by
>>> coyotes and
>>> one person I knew had a cat get eaten by a large owl. That woman had
>>> several
>>> horses and she kept complaining that her barn was full of mice and she
>>> couldn't seem to get rid of them. Noticing that she didn't have any
>>> cats, I
>>> suggested getting one to live in the barn. That's when she told me
>>> that her
>>> last cat got eaten by the owl that lives in a tree on her property.
>>> She
>>> says
>>> she saw the owl tear her cat apart while it was still alive! That
>>> traumatized her and she never got another cat.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Photography & Graphic Design
>>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>>>
>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
>>>
>>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/8/09 6:44 PM, "WayneS" <om3ti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nice sequence.
>>>>
>>>> We have a cat who roams our neighborhood, but never lets me get
>>>> close.
>>>>
>>>> Problem in our neighborhood is that predators usually consume cats
>>>> that
>>>> roam the neighborhood. We have lost 4 cats. I know one was to a fox.
>>>> The others were either from a fisher cat or coyotes.
>>>>
>>>> Our latest two cats, against my long history with cats, are
>>>> relegated to
>>>> indoors.
>>>>
>>>> my dude Zeus:
>>>> http://www.zuik.net/OM-4t/zeusey_MG_9273.jpg
>>>>
>>>> WayneS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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