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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chris Crawford
> > 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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