Baymule
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Buy some King snakes. They eat other snakes. They eat rattlesnakes.
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Many snakes are ovoviviparous... giving live birth to baby snakes... it's the turtles and such that do the egg laying in nests... and things like salamanders, and frogs and such... that lay eggs in water/boggy environments and they hatch and become "like tadpoles" for a short period and then develop the legs and such... not sure what snakes actually lay eggs...
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According to what I just looked up... many snakes lay eggs... the majority of them are in the more tropic regions and are in the python/constrictor types... snakes that squeeze to kill... didn't know that the rat snake and the corn snake here in the US are egg laying... and there are conflicting reports from different sites that black racers lay eggs and other sites say they give birth to live young... I have never kept any of them... they do not like people and will bite... again not poisonous but it will hurt as they do have sharp small teeth.
Milk snakes that can look like copperheads and have often been killed because of that, actually really eat alot of rats/mice etc... they lay eggs...found around more old farmsteads as that is where their preferred mice/rats etc are attracted to.
Milk snakes that can look like copperheads and have often been killed because of that, actually really eat alot of rats/mice etc... they lay eggs...found around more old farmsteads as that is where their preferred mice/rats etc are attracted to.
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SageHill
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Well that makes me wonder if the last one had eaten a meal or was about to gift me with more of the same. Glad it's gone either way.
We do have King snakes and Gopher snakes - both of which eat the nope-ropes. Add in the hawks who will eat them (sadly last hawk ate a gopher snake) and the road runners will also eat them.
We do have King snakes and Gopher snakes - both of which eat the nope-ropes. Add in the hawks who will eat them (sadly last hawk ate a gopher snake) and the road runners will also eat them.
A few years ago I was out near my ponds. I moved some object, and uncovered a tryst. I snapped a photo, replaced the object, and went on my way. Black racers are common here, but always flee at my approach. Except caught in the act?
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SageHill
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Cool pic!
Ridgetop
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Love those grandbabies! 
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SageHill
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Looks like a gully washer yesterday 
0.15 #rain2026
And another rattlesnake - sadly it made a successful run for it and is still out there so can't count it until it's rehomed.
So it's a "head ups" until then.
0.15 #rain2026And another rattlesnake - sadly it made a successful run for it and is still out there so can't count it until it's rehomed.
So it's a "head ups" until then.
Ridgetop
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Ratlesnakes are actually protected in California. You are not supposed to kill them. It goes along with the coyotes coming in and killing your livestock and when you complain to Animal Control they send yo a pamphlet telling you to pick up the fruit from yur fruit trees, cover your trash cans, and "learn to live with our native wildlife". 
SSS!
@Baymule - can you post that funny article about the difference between how the Texas and California governors handle coyote attacks? It is great!
SSS!@Baymule - can you post that funny article about the difference between how the Texas and California governors handle coyote attacks? It is great!
