Black rat snake, oh what a biggun

[raisedin99]

Yeah, but the hat sets off the entire ensemble, don'tcha think?

Can't argue with that.

terry

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Give the snakes a few golf balls. Impossible to digest, impossible to pass. The chickens don't seem to mind having a golf ball in the nest.

 

[Donna K]

When I was in the 1st grade, in the 60's, we lived on a 30 acre farm at the foot of the Horse Heaven Hills of eastern Washington. I remember arriving home on the school bus one day to find my normally very stoic mom visibly shaken. She'd found 3 very large rat snakes in our pasture, and not knowing what they were, massacred them all with a shovel. I remember my dad not being real happy about it, and giving her a lesson about good snakes and bad snakes. We didn't have chickens, so no danger of losing eggs, but the farm did have a large population of gophers that probably increased with the demise of the snakes

 

[SMSgt]

At one time my wife would have driven her Explorer across a dozen lawns to run down some poor rat snake that had the misfortune to cross the road in front of her. I think I've finally managed to get her down to one lawn.

 

[goatsnguns]

I finally found the photo I was looking for. This is my son holding the actual egg sucking snake just before we released it across the road. The snake looks a little sad, don't you think, maybe just still hungry.

 

[swsig]

We don't get too many snakes in our living room, but here's one, a small rat snake seeking the protection of our terra-cotta statue of Saint Francis.
Smart snake. It was released unharmed.