Interesting find... do not look if you are the quesy sort.

[Carol Dee]

@Carol Dee makes you wonder what stripped the meat off if he was frozen into place. What flesh-eating critters do you have swimming in there? Inquiring minds want to know.

I just noticed mice in my workshop. I've had problems there before but had them cleared out. I got two at once with a sticky trap and dog food as bait a few days ago but I know there is at least one more. It's about time to escalate from sticky traps.

And I saw a rat in my garden yesterday, running across an open area in the middle of the day. I'll use a live trap out there but that may escalate soon too. I never expect to get rid of all of them out there but if I'm seeing them in the middle of the day there here are too many. I've already removed five rats from my garden area since the first of the year.

Back on Carol Dee's topic, sort of, it's fun when you find skeletons and such. Cicada shells are interesting. Last fall I found a snake skin in a shed hanging on a wall. It had crawled up and pulled the skin off by hooking it on a roll of wire. About a 3' long snake, probably rat snake.

Sometimes I find small white rubbery eggs in the compost pile, I assume gecko or some type of lizard.

Think of all the fun some people miss out on by never leaving their house, though I'll admit finding a snake skin in your house can be kind of thrilling. Is thrilling the right word for that?

LOL
At least you only found the snake skin in there. DH once opened the pop up camper to find a BIG bull snake curled up on MY bed. UGH. We also found many a shed skin in there, *shudder*

 

[Nyboy]

I found 2 live snakes in my house. There are no mongoose breeders in us according to Bronx zoo.

 

[so lucky]

Nyboy, only you would decide to buy a mongoose to take care of your snake problem in New York!
Maybe you would be comforted by the knowledge that the snakes were in there eating rats and mice.

 

[digitS']

Reading your post, @Ridgerunner , I was thinking how I was happy to live so far north. Then, you say "thrilling."

Okay, having a snake around might be thrilling as long as it's not poisonous. I grew up where there were plenty of rattlesnakes and was always so cautious walking in the wild, I probably missed lots of interesting things while concentrating on the path ahead. I was pleased to think that I was beyond their range here until @Collector pointed out that there was one found not many miles from here ..!

I do not like rodents, especially rats. Anything that will carry them off is a friend of mine! A mongoose would probably be good at that, too. I'd have to forgive him if he took out a few of our garter snakes but the rubber boa is special and so his status as a mouse killer and an unusual neighbor rates right up there with a mongoose from the other side of the earth!

We do have that Pine Martin, here. With that reddish brown coat, he's rather cute. I wonder how Martins would rate as pets.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Nyboy, only you would decide to buy a mongoose to take care of your snake problem in New York!
Maybe you would be comforted by the knowledge that the snakes were in there eating rats and mice.

it might have been mixing Valium with vodka but I wanted Ricky ticky tavi to hunt down the snakes.

 

[Nyboy]

 

[casportpony]

I love that movie!

 

[Nyboy]

Me too

 

[digitS']

Okay, I've been out twice and still forgot that raisin and peanut butter.

I shouldn't allow auto-correct to take over but here is a little bit on the Pine Marten:

digitS'

 

[Collector]

Okay, I've been out twice and still forgot that raisin and peanut butter.

I shouldn't allow auto-correct to take over but here is a little bit on the Pine Marten:

digitS'

Cute little thing alright but those teeth look serious.