What eats SNAKES

[pennwalk]

Now that you mention it I can't remember if the snake ever made it to lunch but I do remember the guys putting it in his lunch bag. Frank was a good guy. And his checks were always good which is one mark of a good boss. I remember him eating lunch with us and the guys used to bring him hot peppers from their moms gardens. I can remember Frank sitting there with tears running down his cheeks asking if they had any more.

Chris

 

[schmism]

most flying birds of prey will. halks, owls etc are the biggest consumer of snakes in my area.

 

[scott_vt]

My bushhog likes them.

Good Evenin Podunkadunk,
Yeah Im sure mine does too but last year we had a thread going about snakes, and one fella had three poisinous snakes thrown up on the operators platform while bush hoggin the fields !!!

No thanks !

 

[CDsdad]

It's funny that this thread is going right now. I called home today and my wife was ill because there had been 2 snakes in our yard at the same time.

The cat and dog tortured one, and another (I guess) was trying to get at a bird's nest in a young sawtooth oak in the yard. I know there is a nest there. She said the blue jays had him bayed. My little girl almost ran over that one with her 4 wheeler. Of course my wife didn't kill them, and was mad because she couldn't get up with my dad to come over. I told her that's what a hoe was for. I asked where they went. She said she didn't know where they went, but she went in the house with the kids. From her description, both were black snakes.

I've got a good idea where their holes are. I killed 2 out of the same hole last year. She had been watering flowers and vegetables pretty regular and I think they were close to the house for the water

 

[Podunkadunk]

Good Evenin Podunkadunk,
Yeah Im sure mine does too but last year we had a thread going about snakes, and one fella had three poisinous snakes thrown up on the operators platform while bush hoggin the fields !!!

No thanks !

I would have a heart attack.

 

[orezok]

My Golden doesn't eat snakes, but because of all the Diamond Backs and Sidewinders here in the Mojave, we took Tess to rattlesnake avoidance training about 2 years ago. The "course" took about 5 minutes. I said... OK, I don't know how much good that is going to do.

A couple of weeks ago, I let her out in the back yard and she takes off toward the barn. About 10 seconds later I see her come running back to the door with her tail between her legs and locking back over her shoulder. I let her in and go to investigate.

It was a 5' gopher snake.

I guess that training worked! I let the snake move on on it's own time as rats are a bigger problem than snakes so I let them be.

 

[Oleozz]

I never kill black snakes. We live in an old stone house and have snakes in our attic and under the house. Had a 4 footer on the chair rail one night upstairs in the bedroom, had quite a few baby snakes one year in our kitchen. They are something you just learn to live with.

 

[N80]

I like snakes. I don't kill any of them.

As for possums and pigs, they are not immune to the poison. If they get bit in the right place it will affect them like any other mammal.

I didn't even get too upset about this guy who wanted to see what we were watching on Animal Planet one night. I grabbed him and set him in the bushes outside the door.

 

[LBrown59]

I know that owls eat snakes.

I saw what might have been a small hawk in a front yard the other day.
looked like it had a snake.

 

[LBrown59]

Man, that is a cool looking cat with those different colored eyes like that.

My mother had a white cat like that with a blue and a yellow eye.
She called it BABE.
WhenMom died in 89 Babe moved in with my brother.