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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

No pythons here fortunately. We do have the "right angle snake"! We heard Reuben frantically barking a lot (more than normal) so we went to investigate. He was barking on the back porch, so my wife was looking around on the ground. She finialy looked up and that was just a foot from her face. It had crawled up the mortar between the bricks.

We locked the dogs inside, and we went inside and it left in short order. I think it was a king snake, so it was a good thing to have in the neighborhood.

Reuben is convinced there is some critter under the storage building hiding out during the day. Maybe one more possum, or another bunny. I wish they would find another place to nest. We still have lots of room in the train station, but I would prefer they live their lives somewhere else.

Pretty much every snake is a good snake to have around. I would prefer to NOT have any venomous snakes. We haven't seen any rattlesnakes or water moccasin on our property which I'm happy about. We have had copperheads, which, if I have to have a venomous snake, copperhead is No2 on my list (No1 would be coral snake). We have performed maintenance to make our property less inviting to the copperheads and that seems to have helped.

Pretty much every other snake is a good snake. There are a lot of snakes that will eat other snakes that they run into (assuming they are bigger/win), and many/most will eat pests (mice, rats, etc... that are small enough).