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6' coachwhip,,,,,,,,,,,Was caught accidently in bird netting,and a chore to remove her? after snippin her out she was a calm rescue, caught during the evening feeding the chickens ,fish and the hound sorry forgot to upload to KS pics if anyone cares i will upload

Yeah, I'd like to see the photos.
Getting a snake out of bird netting is a chore! My friend one time stuffed a bunch of plastic bird netting in a hole in his house foundation to keep rats from going under the house. He came out one morning and found a big timber rattler all balled up in the bird netting. What a chore it was to get this snake out of the netting, but with my friend holding down the snake's head by the neck with a two by four, and the other person (me) snipping the netting away, we got the very angry snake out of the netting and into a trash can, so we could take it upcountry and release it. We had considered letting the snake live under the house and clean out all the rats! But it was just too close for comfort.

I recently rescued a coachwhip from a glue trap, here is the post from my blog:

Thursday at about 10:00 pm I got a call from one of our salesman saying there was a snake in the warehouse in a box and that it was getting out. I asked him what kind of snake and he had no idea. I asked him what it looked like and he said it was tan. I told him to put something on top of the box and that I would be right there. We went down to the warehouse and found the snake attached to a glue trap. There was also a checkered whiptail attached that was already dead. Vegetable oil neutralizes the glue, so I took it home and started working to get the snake unglued. It came pretty easy, the hardest part was dealing with the angry coachwhip! Here are some pictures of the process:

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1.0 Rosy Boa
0.1 Mexican Rosy Boa
1.0 Coastal Carpet Python
3.1 Miniature Daschund
0.1 California Kingsnake
1.0 Western Coachwhip
0.2 Desert Kingsnake - 1 Just laid six eggs!
1.0 Long-nosed Leopard Lizard
1.1 Desert Box Turtle
0.1 Tiger Salamander
1.0 Texas Banded Gecko

Josh
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1.0 Rosy Boa
0.1 Mexican Rosy Boa
1.0 Coastal Carpet Python
3.1 Miniature Daschund
0.1 California Kingsnake
1.0 Western Coachwhip
0.2 Desert Kingsnake - 1 Just laid six eggs!
1.0 Long-nosed Leopard Lizard
1.1 Desert Box Turtle
0.1 Tiger Salamander
1.0 Texas Banded Gecko

The salad oil to remove glue traps is a life saver! When I worked in the garden center at a local Walmart they had glue traps to catch the mice, but all sorts of other poor little critters were always falling victim to these nasty traps. Lizards, snakes, toads, birds, even a little kitten! I came home with a lot of unintended pets!

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It wasn't a timber rattler as I erroneously said earlier, it was a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake. Crotalus oreganus oreganus.

Not me holding a baby of this species!LOL!

just spent an hour deleting old pics so i could post the new pics and still denied due to max ,Friends i have the pix just not the talent to, 10 yrs posting here im baffled,C.......maybe they missed my annual classified subscription...old dial up used to work,new comp and hi speed is baffling to me and so much more.btw same old camera...........Try,TRY,again maybe tomorrow

Man Chris, not knockin KS here, because I have some here as well, but I would get a FREE photobucket account and be done with it.....you can download ANY sized/formatted pics, put as many as you want in a post, etc..

It is THE only way to roll bro.....period!!!!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

Thanks Doug as you see i am slowly emerging into the modern day age .Please sent me a PM with any short-cuts to this photo bucket thing

TinyPic is what I use, although I do also have a Photobucket account, too.

>>just spent an hour deleting old pics so i could post the new pics and still denied due to max ,Friends i have the pix just not the talent to, 10 yrs posting here im baffled,C.......maybe they missed my annual classified subscription...old dial up used to work,new comp and hi speed is baffling to me and so much more.btw same old camera...........Try,TRY,again maybe tomorrow

Is the photo size too large? That may be the issue as well. We have additional space with accounts for sale, but there are other viable options.

But the first thing I would look at is that the photo size is too large.
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Thanks Cindy , i havnt changed the size with my camera settings in the past decade ,And I also woulnt think my new computer would change it ?? who knows ,Problem solved Thanks for the chime