I'm just shaking my head

This is advice given on another forum on how to find a lost BP. Unbelievable!!!!

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to catch your snake listen carfully. Tie a string tightly to a dead feeder mouse and the other end to a stick or post and run it into the ground, then put a box over it with an entrance. Leave it overnight and check it the next morning, youll catch it if its outside. This will not harm your snake just cut the string and it will be digested with the mouse.

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Yup ... lots of POSERS out there.

-adam

...ha....that is a great way to catch racoons and neighborhood cats....I have set traps for LOTS of animals before....but never one for a snake (although I will try Kev's method from The Complete Ball Python if I ever have one escape again....that book is freakin awesome btw)...

Moved to general BP forum.

I hope no one really tries that. lol..

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

Yup ... lots of POSERS out there.

-adam

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Where have I seen that expression before? Oh yeah! Ralph's journal! LOL

Anyway, I had to read that quote like 3 times to make sure I wasn't mis-reading the advice. It was such an old post, I didn't even bother to even say "are you kidding me????".

I'm still slack-jawed over it! ;)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

...ha....that is a great way to catch racoons and neighborhood cats....I have set traps for LOTS of animals before....but never one for a snake (although I will try Kev's method from The Complete Ball Python if I ever have one escape again....that book is freakin awesome btw)...

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You tie strings to bait for racoons and cats that they swallow?

I can't wait to get the book! Have to wait until after the holidays though!

i actually saw that done on a mozambike(sp?) spitting cobra on "miami animal police" on animal planet by a exotic animal "professional". BTW, daniel, what page is that on? (if you dont mind) i didnt see that in there.

Robin, most critters usually just bite and run....no swallowing (ha ha....those usually like to chew ;))

Marshall.....page 30....in the section labeled...."Escapees"...

oooo, thanks. im gonna check that out when i get off.

Sounds like that person gets their "techniques" from Bugs Bunny cartoons =P

Actually no, they did show the guy on Miami Animal Cops using this technique, and he used dead ball pythons I thought to try to catch a cobra, and did. So it did work, and the snake didn't look harmed, although it would be hard to se the harm.
Most likely they saw it there. That guy is a long time profesional at doing this sort of thing, so people would definately think it was okay to do. Not that it is right or good. Just saying it was shown being donw by a pro on tv so most folks are gonna believe it.
The tv wouldn't lie right? (TIC)
wolfy

How would that even work anyway? It sounds quite cruel, but couldn't the snake just regurge?

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Where have I seen that expression before? Oh yeah! Ralph's journal! LOL

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I got the unabridged version ... good stuff! ROCK ON!

-adam

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Originally Posted by Danielle(THM)

How would that even work anyway? It sounds quite cruel, but couldn't the snake just regurge?

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Good point! With a confident, self assured, top of the food chain predator like a cobra, it could very well work ... being stuck to a string would probably just agitate them ... but with a shy, nervous, not so high on the food chain animal like a ball python ... I'd guess a regurg would be an easy way to get to safety quickly.

-adam

....ha ha...i was thinkin of another kinda trap(lean-to) that involves a box...string...stick...and food...after I reread the initial post i realized what was being talked about....that one would not work well for other critters...and think the entire situation would be very stressful for any snake...

Don't loose your snakes and you wont have to worry about traps.

I saw the show to, it worked but the key thing to remember is that he was catching a exotic cobra on the loose on someone's property, their is a point where the risk of the animal being on the loose out weighs the potential risk to harming the animal. Would I use this to catch a loose BP in my house no as the risk of it getting hurt out weigh the risk of it being loose in my house.

Ummm would I drive a stake through my nice hardwood floors to tie a string to.......doh NO! :P


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

....ha ha...i was thinkin of another kinda trap(lean-to) that involves a box...string...stick...and food...after I reread the initial post i realized what was being talked about....

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Heehee! That's exactly what I thought when I first read it, hence the Bugs Bunny comment...it still seems like a weird way to catch a snake, but if it works!