Caught ! by kansas

Photography • Animals • posted on Nov 18, 2004

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These photos are not very good. I don't have a good camera. But I think you can see them well enough, I hope. Hope you enjoy seeing this. Several weeks ago, on a Saturday, when my husband was checking fence, he came upon this bull snake stuck in a hole in this fence brace. He kept wiggling and struggling to get out, but did not make it. We checked on him later in the day and he was still there. Each day I checked on him every morning and late afternoon. In the morning he was very sluggish and hardly moved, probably due to the coolness of the nighttime temperature. By afternoon he had warmed up enough to continue his struggle. When I approached he would raise up and watch me as he repeatedly stuck out his tongue. We have no idea when he got himself into this situation. We guessed that he had crawled into the square tube seeking possibly a mouse, ate it, and then he was too large to squeeze out of one of the holes. Fortunately, it did not freeze any of those nights. By the middle of the week it appeared he was making some progress. Six days later, Friday morning, he really had managed to get more of his body out. By Friday afternoon, he was gone. So it took six or more days for him to sufficiently digest whatever he ate to enable him to extract himself.

Comments (53)

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Richardphotos

9:10PM | Thu, 18 November 2004

I guess you could say his eyes was bigger than his stomach,no his stomach was too big-whatever, nice foto and thanks for sharing

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jocko500

9:37PM | Thu, 18 November 2004

a good story and good angels shots

Kropot

10:00PM | Thu, 18 November 2004

Yeah, jee, what a story. Good to see people looking after these gritters instead of killing em. Ypu realy amezed me. :) Gready bugger :)

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DennisReed

12:22AM | Fri, 19 November 2004

Entertaining photo! I'm happy he made it, and he was lucky a bird of prey didn't have him for lunch!

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WandM

3:00AM | Fri, 19 November 2004

O my, what a story! Fantastic that you checked this poor fella twice a day and i'm happy he's free now. Such a beautiful place where you live.

gallimel

5:46AM | Fri, 19 November 2004

this pics are actually very good, and together they have really style :)

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CarolSassy

10:09AM | Fri, 19 November 2004

Great story and pics! V (:

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avalonfaayre

12:53PM | Fri, 19 November 2004

What an amusing story! The pictorial account is wonderful! I had to laugh...Thanks! My daughter raises snakes (but not at MY house...) and she would appreciate your kindness. Of course she would have wanted to capture and breed it....yuk!

LFNForever

5:11PM | Fri, 19 November 2004

Absolute and total excellence!!! :)

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redbeard

5:19PM | Fri, 19 November 2004

Now this is really fascinating! The shots are really good, I'm supprised though that the urge to get out and attack you didn't manage to free him earlier. At least there's one less mouse around!

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