Monday, June 11, 2012

Bailey 5 Garter Snakes 1



The totals are in, after this weekend with two additional captures, five garter snakes relocated, one escaped. The niece was back after Dad located another snake in the bulkhead. Turns out there were two and one actually made his way into the house. While hunting the first one the second one slid into the house. Thankfully, the basement is cold and it did not like its sanctuary. When the first one was relocated, Dad and the niece closed the bulkhead and figured if left alone it might return to the heat of the bulkhead. Sure enough, after an hour, they checked and while stubborn, he was captured and relocated. During his capture, he also gave away the location of the snake entrance and exit. Dad has since boarded this up, so he has high hopes this will reduce or eliminate snakes in the bulkhead.

Dad said I was instrumental in locating and flushing out the snakes. However, I was also responsible for the snake that got in the house as I got between the snake and the niece in an attempt to protect her from the snake. As a result, it was able to make its escape. I was very glad when it was caught later. I am also hoping that Dad's patch works.

Katy is getting tired of me working all the time. Yesterday, we had our first good yard zoomie in ages. While Mom was doing her yard walking exercises, I chased Katy through the hosta and lily plants. She was so happy. Katy also reminded me that we need to practice for the Blogville Olympics. We are hosting Squirrel Hurdles and while I have been hunting snakes, my training for clearance of hosta and other floras have been limited. Katy while shorter has a much better clearance range than I do right now. Yesterday she showed me some amazing moves. I have some work to catch up.

14 comments:

  1. Nice to hear that you took some time off wrangling those snakes and had some zoomies fun with Katy! I'm sure glad you got the snake that got in the house!

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  2. Keep up that snake hunting

    urba hounds

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  3. SNAKES ALIVE Bailey.... I would have been sooooo scared. You are very brave!!! I hope the Patch works TOO.

    Ernie and I are BOTH working on our Squirrel Hurdle skills. It is gonna be sooooo exciting...

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  4. Oh you ARE brave! I couldn't do that, no way!

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  5. I would love to keep garter snakes in my garden to eat insects. Unfortunately my dogs think they are the world's greatest toys.

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  6. We still have plenty in the gardens and surrounding areas. What we are trying to eliminate are the ones that are in the bulkhead and burrowing near the foundation.

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  7. I am not a fan of snakes. I think I would just freak out if this happened to me. But...I did enjoy reading your story!

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  8. You sure have been busy! What a productive weekend. :)

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  9. Wow! That's a lot! I've decided that if I see another snake at our house I'm going to move:))

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  10. Bailey you are sooooooooooooo brave!! Just the thought of them is making me cringe!

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  11. We've given you an award http://www.weinerfullife.com/2012/06/happy-tuesday-happy-award-tuesday.html

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  12. Glad you were able to determine where that snake entrance was -- hope you guys were able to board it up real good. Is there a blogville olympics? Didn't know about that.

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  13. That was very noble of you to protect the niece from the snake (even if the snake got away because of it!).

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  14. Pawsome, simply pawsome. Way to get them snakes

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