This canebrake rattlesnake was too close to the farm workshop at Okra Paradise Farms, so I used a hoe to put it in a cardboard box and took it far away.
How? I show the snake a hoe. It either gets in the box with a nudge from the hoe, or it gets in the box in two pieces.
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Maybe I should clean out that gutter more frequently.
I’m assuming an oak snake left that skin, but of course I assumed that about the snake that turned out to be a rattlesnake.
Anyway, I also had to remove the grapevine, because it had grown roots into the gutter, completely blocking it up.
-jsq
The dogs found this snake, and Gretchen didn’t like it.
![[Canebrake rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-10-03--rattlesnake/20221003_180340.jpg)
Canebrake rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus
Honeybun, Blondie, and Arrow led me straight to this Crotalus horridus. Unlike our previous dogs, they kept their distance.
Gretchen called them back, I got the hoe and a cardboard box, put the snake in the box, the box in the truck, and drove the truck miles away.
This rattler now has woods to catch mice with nobody living nearby.
-jsq
Again, Gretchen was the first to see a snake.
She still didn’t want me to pick it up, though.
-jsq
Mark it on the calendar: first time Gretchen ever saw a snake first.
All the dogs and I walked right past this timber rattler in the front driveway.
She didn’t think I should pick up this Crotalus horridus. I don’t know why.
-jsq
This rat snake was stuck on the sticky traps.
Fortunately, vegetable oil softens the glue and the snake writhed free.
Didn’t seem in any hurry to go anywhere. Continue reading
Honeybun was happy to back off. She is barely visible, bottom left.
The snake was making a big show of striking at them.
Yellow Dog was more, “I hate snakes. That’s a snake. I’m gonna get it.” But eventually she gave a huff and flopped down to sit near the snake. I had to pick her up to get her to move away.
Then the snake slithered quickly into the woods.
-jsq
The least menacing snake you will see today.
At the entrance to the Cypress Swamp. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog didn’t even notice.
-jsq
Update 2019-05-20: A more likely identification.
Definitely not a rattlesnake. Whatever it is, it chose poorly by showing up right in front of the dogs’ doghouse.
Don’t know which dog dislikes them most, maybe Yellow Dog. Continue reading
At the far side of the pond, Yellow Dog spotted a moccasin before anybody else. The small but deadly Agkistrodon piscivorus didn’t stand a chance against the pair of experienced snake wranglers, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog.
![[Snake, hoe, box 2023-03-21]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-03-21--snake/many.jpg)
![[Gutter snakeskin on grapevine]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-01-08--gutter-snakeskin/20230108_143303.jpg)
![[Oak snake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-08-31--snake/20220831_093653.jpg)
![[Canebrake rattlesnake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-08-17--rattlesnake/20220817_172746.jpg)
![[Thanks for the olive oil]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-05-26--rat-snake/20220526_124827.jpg)
![[Honeybun, Yellow Dog, snake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-05-18--dogs-snake/20210518_190310.jpg)
![[Not moving very fast]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-08--serpent/20200508_082734.jpg)