My snake!
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 October 2012.
The dogs barked up a storm while I was picking okra, and by the time I got there the snake was in sad shape. Too bad, as I keep explaining to Brown Dog and Yellow Dog, snakes eat mice.
-jsq
A snakey present from the dogs:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 September 2012.
I like snakes: they eat rodents, and I’m allergic to rodents.
But the dogs don’t like snakes that trespass on their area near the house.
They left this one in the middle of the walkway from the house to the carport.
You see it in the truck on the way to somewhere else.
I think Yellow Dog is nostalgic for her YouTube hit, Black Snake vs. Yellow Dog. They look mild-mannered, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog, but so far a beaver, a raccoon, several rattlesnakes, and two kinds of water moccassins have found tangling with the dogs is not a good idea.
Although that copperhead did give Yellow Dog a bit of a hangover.
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Yellow Dog thanks you for your concern.
-jsq
Yes, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog found another hog-nosed snake. Hiding:
Boxed:
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog pointing:
Can you see it there, between the wiregrass and the oak log?