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I saw a snake near my house. I want to catch it to transport it away, but I don't know how. Any suggestions?

I usually just grab them if they're not the venomous kind. You'll probably get bit that way though. You can always buy some snake tongs and do it that way. If your not sure what it is I wouldn't mess with it. It's not going to bother you. If fact it's probably eating all the things like mice and rats that are more dangerous to you than the snake itself. If you really feel the need to get rid of it I would call someone who knows what they're doing.
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I have a dog who sometimes eats lizards and snakes wouldn't be to big of a streach.

Wrong Icon, supposed to be a crying face. I am new at this.

i seen someone post an idea for a trap where they put a mouse in a box, the box had a small hole cut into it. the idea is that the snake would be small enough to fit into the hole before it ate, but afterwords, it couldnt because well it's belly is bulging with the mouse, the problem with that is, if you're talking a wild snake, he/she might not eat a frozen/thawed mouse ya know. But good luck, I wouldn't worry about it personally, because regardless of whether or not you relocate this animal, imagine how many of them are out there that you don't see. I spent a few nights with a camera posted outside my garage watching my back yard just for giggles, because i wanted to know. Well I seen raccoons, possums, a skunk, a few coyotes, quite a few cats, an owl and a couple bats. I never knew that many animals frequented my yard! I have since started leaving my trash cans inside my garage, I so don't want a skunk to make a home in my back yard!