Ok..So I am alone and head into the bedroom to see several cats
curiously looking under the dresser. this can mean, a toad, a bird,
a gopher or snake,,,I have already removed a few garter snakes
from the cats this year,,, i got down on my hand and
knees,,,shooing the cats away and heard a very irritated snake
under the dresser. i could not tell if it was a gopher snake or a
rattle snake,,,So now what,,there are 13 cats in there and i tried
to get them out with out scaring them under the dresser,,favorite
hiding place,,I did not want to leave as i needed to keep track of
the snake, I tossed a few cats in the bathroom,,slammed the
door,,,got one into the closet and scared a few into my cat
inclosure and locked them out, that left only 4 more,
I called Ashley, my cat helper to come give me a hand,,She arrived
a few moments later,,,boots,,,rake and pail,,,but i still needed to
get one feral out of the room,,,Well I grabbed her by the scuff and
was almost out the door but she turned and really got me good,
Several very deep bites but I got her out,
Well we got the snake out and once in the light it looked more like
a poor little scared gopher snake so we took him out to the
vineyards to release him,,, I have pictures if anyone wants to see
him,,,
the moral of the story is ..well there may not be one,,find a snake
in your room and go the emergency room with a cat bite!!
What is strange is I have a pair of Red Tail hawks nesting in my
palm tree and eating on the telephone pole out side my
window,,,each day they seem to come home dangling a snake and i was
just commenting that all my snakes will disappear,,,hmmm
Kelly
