KALI !!! Come get your Bull Snake! - Democratic Underground

ashling

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Thu Jul-23-09 01:18 AM
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KALI !!! Come get your Bull Snake!

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orleans

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Thu Jul-23-09 01:25 AM
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1. is this a sex thread??? n/t

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ashling

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Thu Jul-23-09 01:46 AM
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2. Get your mind out of the gutter!!!

This is about rattlesnakes...

Bull Snakes (also called Gopher snakes) are docile and do our habitats a great service by keeping down vermin populations. They eat mice, rats, rabbits, and prairie dogs, and they keep down Rattlesnake populations as well. Bull snakes are not aggressive by nature and will rarely bite unless provoked.

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NJmaverick

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:36 AM
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3. How do they keep the rattle snake populations down?

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:40 AM
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4. they are both after the same prey...by eating all the prey the

rattlesnake has no need to come around.

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NJmaverick

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:44 AM
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5. That makes sense

although wouldn't some hawks or falcons do the same thing?

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:52 AM
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10. and cats. I never see snakes in my yard because I have cats...

maybe this is all old folklore but, that is what I have always heard.

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hobbit709

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:46 AM
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7. King snakes eat rattlesnakes.

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Kali

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:46 AM
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8. I always heard they were like King snakes - immune to rattlesnake venom

and would eat them as well.

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hobbit709

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:48 AM
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9. King snakes will eat rattlers almost their own size

Bull snakes occasionally eat juvenile rattlers.

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Kali

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Thu Jul-23-09 11:07 AM
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11. Any idea why I wouldn't have King snakes around here?

By all rights they should be, location is good, guidebooks say they are here, prey sure as hell is here, I know they are around the San Pedro valley, but I have never seen them here.

two pix my sons took walking up a little draw, within 200 feet of each other

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Thu Jul-23-09 11:54 AM
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12. holy hell

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Kali

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Thu Jul-23-09 10:45 AM
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6. Gimme!

I replied in my starter thread. He's a good one. I think I need a half dozen, this is turning into a daily event! Sheesh.

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