Automatic mouse/rat trap

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Got an automatic mouse/rat trap in my shop now, never have to bait or empty it, I didn't get it from Amazon, it just showed up, model # Ralfie 4.5 Black snake. Found it a couple days ago in the shop, had 10 lumps in the length of it's body, thought that was great, so now I leave the door cracked so it can come and go as it pleases, only maintenance is picking up the sheds.:)
 
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Got an automatic mouse/rat trap in my shop now, never have to bait or empty it, I didn't get it from Amazon, it just showed up, model # Ralfie 4.5 Black snake. Found it a couple days ago in the shop, had 10 lumps in the length of it's body, thought that was great, so now I leave the door cracked so it can come and go as it pleases, only maintenance is picking up the sheds.:)
I need one of those , do you have any extras crawling around ? :)
 
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I've always let them share my space if I run across them (don't tell the wife lol) I've found they usually move on after they've cleared the place out
 
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I've always let them share my space if I run across them (don't tell the wife lol) I've found they usually move on after they've cleared the place out
When we first moved here had a six footer, two and a half inches in diameter, dumb ass neighbor shot it.
 
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Down here a black snake is likely to be a Cotton Mouth.
Chicken snake would be the next closest. I have to escort them out. My wife has a phobia. I leave the king snakes and garter snakes and don't tell her about them.
 
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Got an automatic mouse/rat trap in my shop now, never have to bait or empty it, I didn't get it from Amazon, it just showed up, model # Ralfie 4.5 Black snake. Found it a couple days ago in the shop, had 10 lumps in the length of it's body, thought that was great, so now I leave the door cracked so it can come and go as it pleases, only maintenance is picking up the sheds.:)
Without pictures.... It didn't happen
 
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Down here a black snake is likely to be a Cotton Mouth.
Chicken snake would be the next closest. I have to escort them out. My wife has a phobia. I leave the king snakes and garter snakes and don't tell her about them.
Black and Cotton Mouths, two different snakes. I think Black snakes are called Chicken snakes, cause if you have laying hens, you will find them in the nest boxes, eating eggs. Had to go to medium heavy rod, couldn't hit a Cotton mouth hard enough with an ultra light rod to turn them while wade fishing, true story!
 
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Had to go to medium heavy rod, couldn't hit a Cotton mouth hard enough with an ultra light rod to turn them while wade fishing, true story!

What is this part? You catch them while fishing? That's something that's never happened to me...
 
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What is this part? You catch them while fishing? That's something that's never happened to me...
While wading, the Cotton Mouths would start dropping into the river from the brush piles in the bends of the river and swim towards you and you needed to hit them real hard with your pole to turn them.
 
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LOL F*** that! :eek: I'll stick with the three months of winter.
Buddy that I used to wade fish with was scared to death of snakes, well guess you know what would come next while hiking around the deep holes, stick up his ass, sucker could run the tops of the river cane and never touch the ground! HA!