Saturday, October 22, 2011

Meet the New Mouser

Mama Boots.....
You have competition!


I found this Plains Garter snake on 
the doormat in the garage.

Looks like we have one less mouse around the house!

11 comments:

  1. Garter snakes are great mousers! Snakes are cool and good predators. When I was about 8 years old, I brought a garter snake home. My mother didn't bat an eye and I was able to keep him for a few days before she convinced me that he would be much happier out in the grass with his friends. ;-)

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  2. I've never seen a snake on our property - a garter snake would be most welcome.

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  3. I prefer unseen snakes thanks. My brothers used to throw garter snakes at me, and I have had an aversion to them ever since. Nice mouse-sized lump though.

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  4. Very pretty snake. I could use one in my potting shed.

    Cindy Bee

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  5. We have snakes, but I never see ones that I recognize as harmless. We have copperheads and ones that look like copperheads, and I avoid them all.

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  6. Wow! At first I thought you were going to say that someone stepped on it. Pretty snake.

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  7. At first I wasn't catching on to your comment about the mouse... but THEN I see, you are probably right about that! At least garter snakes are harmless...

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  8. It's a beauty! I love garter snakes. When I find one, I take it to the garden.

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  9. I like garter snakes. My brother caught one when I was a kid and we tried to keep it in a shoebox, but it wouldn't eat the dead flies we served it, so we let it go.

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  10. Very cool. . . is it wrong to feel kinda bad for the mouse, though?

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  11. Lucky thing. Fewer mice is always a good thing, though, I do have to admit that I always get a case of the "awwwwww's" when I see one. They're such cute little nuisances.

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