Camfer Wrote:Depending on the size of the snake, maybe the cats should be worried that they snake will find them!
How do you set a live trap for a snake?
I have made several traps out of 2-liter soda bottles. You cut the top of the bottle off, so that you have a cup (from the bottom part) and a funnel (from the top part). Then invert the funnel and tape it to the cup. In the end, you have a funnel leading into a cup area where you put a dead mouse. By putting holes in the trap and setting it on a heating pad and then covering it with a towel; the snake should be able to smell the bait and enter into the funnel. Once inside and after eating the mouse, the snake will be too big to get back out of the funnel; at least until it has had a few hours to digest the mouse.
Unfortunately, the snake just ate 3 days before her escape
Snakes can go for unto a year without eating...SOOooo I am hoping the weather will cool off again soon, because snakes need heat to thermo-regulate and will be attrated to the heating pad, probably before she is attracted to the mouse.
No luck trapping her so far, nor has my room-by-room destruction of the house been successful as yet.....will make more traps tonight and put them out before bed....
Interesting to read on how to make the live traps, Beaux, thanks. I didn't know a snake would be attracted to a dead mouse. I don't envy you needing warmed dead mice in the house.
I've had the occasional stray bull snake in my house that I've had to escort outside. One was 4 feet long (1.2m), stretched out on the couch in the sun! Pretty funny. They can be very aggressive when disturbed, but I've been lucky with the ones that stray into the house.
I did have a crazy incident one summer where I stepped out the front door, slamming the screen door behind me, only to hear a strange buzzing noise and some movement at the bottom of the screen door. So I turned to look and I'd not only stepped over a rattlesnake, I'd pinned its tail with the screen door! It struggled to get into my house and free of the door. Roommate was battling this angry rattlesnake in the entry, and got it to retreat up against the screen door, then roommate closed the door to the house. Then I opened the screen door and the snake was freed.
Living where I do, snakes are just a part of the picture in the summer. With all the rats, mice, voles, moles, gophers, and prairie dogs around here, I generally let the snakes do their thing.
Okay one more rattlesnake story. One warm April day, the BF and I are hiking in a narrow canyon and decide to scramble up a south facing rocky slope to get a view across the valley. An old cinder cone, the slope is fully covered in medium sized basalt rocks. Some were loose, so the footing is tricky and off balance.
As we get to the middle of the scree, we get a nice 80-mile view of the valley and the circle of snow capped mountains, but we also hear a buzzing rattler. We're surprised to hear it so early in the year, as we can have another 6 weeks of snow. So we start to head down the slope, only to hear another rattler, then another, and another. Because of the size of the rocks, with spaces between all of them, there is nowhere to go but through this field of rocks and rattlesnakes.
I figure we're right on top of their hibernaculum, where dozens or hundreds of rattlesnakes congregate together to overwinter. The black basalt rocks in the sun gave them some good warmth, so they were active that day. We couldn't go more than five feet without another rattler buzzing us.
We could not see any of them, because they were all between the rocks were where walking on. It was an awful feeling, not having any choice but to walk right through a slope full of disturbed, hungry rattlers.
We got out without incident, which is fortunate, as they don't even keep two vials of antivenom at the local hospital, and an airlift to the city hospital would be tens of thousands of dollars.
Here's a funny video, even though I don't like how he's disturbing the snakes with his video camera. Don't drop your camera into a pit of rattlesnakes! Oops!
just read your dilemma - did the snake re appear yet ?? I do love animals of all shapes n sizes so to have a pet on the loose is not fun - I had a 2 pet rats and one loved to hide behind the gas fire through a small gap ,,took lots of bribery food to get him out....a day later, blocked the gap up quickly after that
Camfer Wrote:Hey [MENTION=13210]Beaux[/MENTION], any sign of your snake?
No I am at my wits end! I have traps set all around the house and in the garage (before I knew she was missing, I was unloading groceries fro. The car to the kitchen and left the door to the garage open for about an hour, so she ~could~ be in there...).
A friend of mine, who keeps snakes, told me that her son's baby corn snake escaped and they gave up looking after a couple of months, assuming it was dead; they found it eating dog food at 4am one morning THREE YEARS LATER!!
So...yes I am still looking for my lost snake
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