Warning: There is a snake picture below!
This evening I was out doing my chores – spraying the tomatoes, watering the keyhole, checking the fruit trees, putting up the chickens .. I had on my rubber boots (no flip flops!) and I was being very careful . . listening for rattles, watching for movement. I looked down and . . what did I see? Yep, snakes — two, but they were dead.
Vince was in the house and I went and got him . . come see this! I asked him . . you didn’t throw these snakes out here, did you? I didn’t think he would. No .. he didn’t!
Goodness . . I’m trying to type stuff so no one accidentally sees a snake picture . . getting it way down the page.
What happens is this plant landscaping “stuff” . . don’t know if they call it fencing or what, but the snakes try to crawl through it and get stuck and then they try to go a different direction and they get really stuck and .. they die. This landscape stuff was right at the edge of our yard, under the pipe fencing that separates the house from the ag land.
I’m wondering how many we’re going to see this year. Maybe I don’t want to know. Last year, the entire year, we killed one snake – I killed a small rattlesnake in the garden. This year already we’ve killed 6, the 2 we just found dead and the 2 rattlesnakes the UPS guy saw . . that’s 10 already.
Two Dead Snakes
Those are two pretty good sized snakes. The sun has bleached them out a bit I think but they didn’t smell so they couldn’t have been there much more than 24 hours.
Sorry for those who think it’s gross . . it’s my life these days.
Donna says
As much as I hate snakes I’d probably have that landscaping stuff around the garden, the shed and the chicken coop and everything else. I’d just have to buy stock in the company. LOL
Deb says
Ooh. Ick. Shudder. Shivver. I can’t stand snakes. I know, I know it’s that Eve thing. I’m so glad they were dead. I’d rather shoot them then get close enough to hit them with a shovel or hoe and luckily I’m a good enough shot to do so if they aren’t moving too fast. I used to have a dog (schnauzer) that would run ahead of me down between the rows of our family garden and alert us to cottonmouths. That was in Kansas. We didn’t have rattlers but the cotton mouths were an occasional threat and numerous enough to always wear boots and be mindful. I now live in Texas. Rattlers have been bad this year. Currently I’ve been contending with wild hogs. As bad as they are I’ll take them over rattlers any day! You are amazing, Judy. And yes I know hogs are good meat but I don’t know how to field dress them and I live in a rural neighborhood where donkeys and peacocks run free ( because who can keep a peacock at a place they don’t want to be?) and some people would take issue with me slaughtering the hogs In my front yard even though they too complain about the damage to the landscaping…. Not that an occasional possum or raccoon hasn’t succumbed to lead poisoning in my yard, if you know what I mean but I can easily “dispose” of them.
Judy S says
Ten snakes and its only the middle of June? Tell Vince that’s a definite sign you need to start packing and put the house up for sale! You’ve been wanting to move back nearer Chad, Nicole and Addie. If this isn’t a sign, I don’t know what is ~ lol.
Paula (Texas) says
Sorry, I like snakes unless they are poisonous! Have even had some for pets.
Diann says
TIME. TO. MOVE!!!! But that’s me. If I even SAW a snake I would never go outdoors. I couldn’t live there for sure no matter what. And Rattlesnakes……..really dangerous. Snakes have their place in the environment just not in MY AREA. I did look at the pictures however. That’s semi-brave. MAYBE Hope you never get bitten, Vince, or your animals. Stay safe.
Robin says
Only good snake is a dead snake in my book, dont really care what color it is!?
Rhonda says
I need some of that fencing. My thoughts, the only good snake is a dead snake!!!
dezertsuz says
Actually, snakes aren’t gross. Those are good-sized ones and it’s a little sad to think they’d live to that age, and then get caught in fencing and die. But it’s two you don’t have to worry about. I’m guessing they were better fed last year and didn’t need to come among people?
Pamj says
Judy, we are building a new place in the Texas Hill Country on a little over 5 acres, does Vince have any idea where that type of fencing comes from ? Tractor Supply maybe ?? We’ve killed numerous Copper heads but rattlers nope. I don’t want to be packin’ everytime I go outside with dogs or to work, just in case I encounter one !!!
Thanks
quiltnqueen says
What kind of snakes were those? If they’re poisonous, then good they’re dead. If they’re not, then I’m sorry cause they’ll help with the mice, unless they’re the ones that raid the henhouse?
Nancy says
If only you could get all the snakes on the other side of that landscape stuff and they would all die has they tried to crawl in.