Steve Snell’s Gundog Blog

Yesterday morning we went out to shoot a new video for the Autobacker at my kennel.  We set up a bunch of pigeons in bird launchers and worked 3 different pups to show multiple dogs at different levels of training using the backer.

Everything went pretty well and we will have the finished video up later. 

Around 7pm, I went down to the pen to make sure all the birds had come back and to lock up the Varmint guard.

While counting birds, I noticed some thing odd in one of the pigeon boxes.  It took me a couple of seconds to realise that it was a really, really big snake.

I not really afraid of snakes but I have a very healthy respect for them and I don’t mess with them unless I have no other choice.

I went up to the house to get a hoe and a rake to pull him out. 

The boxes in my pigeon house are removable so I was able to pull the box out and drop it on the floor of my pigeon coop and get a good look at him.

He was a good bit bigger than I originally thought and it was obvious that he had eaten either a bunch of eggs or one of my younger birds.

It took me a bit to make sure he was not poisonous and get him in a position to pull him out of the house.

The good thing about him eating so much is that he was not interested in moving too fast and didn’t put up much of a fight.  The one thing I know about snakes is that they can really move fast.  I pulled him out of the house and let him make a break for it.

Now I have to figure out how he got in and stop that from happening again.  I’ll also be real careful the next time I reach in to catch a bird.

This is been a really “Snaky Spring” for us at the snell house.  Between me and Sammy, we have run across 5 so far….

Steve Snell