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They trapped this little girl (65 grams) under the swimming pool ladder platform. I guess she was attracted to this area because of the tree frogs that are breeding in the pool. She is a nice little snake, not hissy or tail buzzing. I think she is an '08.

Do they all look like that up there? Before I really focused on it I was thinking vertabralis/bimaris...that is some really red in those saddles up front, at least in the photo.
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This one is a bit redder than the usual gophers in my area.
Here is Gomez. I found her last year being stalked by a feral cat:

She is a lot more brown than the new one, even though they are only a few miles apart in location.

Whatever she is its beautiful. I want you to keep this snake just to see what it looks like in a couple years. Can you send your cats my way-Went out for the first time this year in AZ with my buddy.

1 Night snake
1 Lyre snake
4 Rattlesnakes
2 DOR Rattlers with there heads and tails cut off
1 DOR whipsnake

I was really hoping to find a gopher for the first time out, but this picture just made my day better. . .what a looker.

Thanks! Yes, she is a beautiful little girl. I debated whether or not to keep her because I don't like to deplete the wild population, but then I figured since I have all I need to keep her properly, why not. If she does not adjust to captivity I have a good safe place to release her.

Heh! My cats are great herpers but they don't guarantee live delivery!

Xeno, my most prolific herper! Look at that expression on his face; I had just rescued a little king snake from his clutches!

That is one wild looking cat! Got some feral hunter genes in there

That does look like one pissed kitty, his ears tell me how he really feels haha.

I don't think collectors (or taking a couple of wild gophers) can deplete wild populations, most would not agree with me but its my personal opinion. My greatest fear for wild reptiles is shopping malls, soccer moms, and housing developments.

Well, one good thing that has come out of the economy crash is the major slowing down of housing developments, at least here in California. I hate these big sprawling subdivisions more than I can express verbally. Paving over the most fertile farmland on earth to build all this ticky tacky crap just enrages me! Not only reptiles, but humans will suffer in the end because of this misguided use of finite resources.

Sorry, just one of my rants getting out of the cage! LOL!

What an awesome find! I wish I lived in an area where that was possible.

beautiful snake.i would keep her. you did'nt collect her you saved her

This morning she is in the cardboard paper towel tube in her cage. I put a couple of live pinks in the tube; see if she might be hungry. The tube is most like a natural place she would find food. I don't know when she ate last. We still seem to have just as many frogs, going by the volume of the chorus they create at night.

This little snake is a bit shyer than her wild counterpart Gomez. Although lately since coming out of brumation Gomez has taken to having to be put in the feeding jar over the UTH in her cage with her live fuzzies and left over night. The fuzzies are always gone in the morning.

Once the new snake starts eating I will try feeding her in the feeding jar as well. This is my feeding system and I like all of them to be comfortable with it. I don't like to put live food or prekilled food in the cage and have it disappear only to fester and rot if not consumed.

I have named her Ruiza; I am not the best expert at determining gender so if she turns out to be a boy she can be Ruiz! LOL!

She didn't eat the pinks in the tube so I went ahead and put her in the feeding jar over the UTH and covered it with a towel. When I came back an hour later the pinks were gone. Now I feel she is a officially a keeper.

Not to offend you but cats doesnt belong in wild. I once had a baby cat (thrown on our backyard) we raised it to adulthood but outside. That thing killed everything, from lizards, birds. It made me so sick (dead animals), I called the pound to pick him up. Cats are ok if kept indoors, outdoors and its killing machine.