Hey lily just thought id ask how Chooky is going?

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Hey Morgan,

Chooky is growing very nicely indeed, she is a fair sized bitch, has a lovely attitude!

cheers

Yep plenty of the brown snakes in the Bendigo/Heathcote region too. My greyhound trainer has a creek and a dam on his property. Averages about 3 dead brown snakes a year. There was a black snake that met a greyhound last year. Snake dead, greyhound alive. Old greyhound "Katy" seem to lure them into her pen. Doesn't matter which pen she is in. I have a brood bitch up there lily who is in an open 25m run with kennel. Is there anyway I can snake proof her pen ?

Its good that your trainer has black snakes as they kill and eat other types of snakes in the area, black snakes arent very agressive comapred to tigers and browns.

When i lived in an area with lots of snakes we would always leave the blacks.

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You are right about Red Bellies Morgan but although they might try to avoid trouble, sometimes they have no choice, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the mid-1980s we had an unraced Wild Port dog who dived into the grass coming out with a Red Belly wrapped around him. The dog was muzzled. With the benefit of a big vet bill he was saved and thankfully he was a very good dog from the financial viewpoint.

If the person who looks after your broodbitch doesn't have time or money to lay out bird netting along the fenceline (loosely clumped on ground) you can always ask if they can clip on aviary type wire (the one with tiny square holes, instead of the usual chicken wire) along the fenceline right down into the ground, make sure to fill in all holes along the fenceline in the dog's yard, as well. Keep grass down very short if possible.

Thanks for the tips lily. What grass!!! It's dirt and dust in Heathcote...lol, with a few cattle and sheep on his property there isn't much of the green stuff around, the animals keep it well mowed.

why you called an snake season?





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"why you called an snake season"? (jams 002)

I am not the creator of this thread nor of course the heading "Snake Season" but I hope it is appropriate for me to respond to the question asked by 'jams002'. I've got nothing better to do. "Snake Season" is a just a term often used to describe the time of the year when snakes are more active and therefore more likely to come in contact with, for example, humans and "heaven forbid", greyhounds. In climates where there is a very distinct temperature difference between summer and winter (a very large part of Australia), snakes are much less active, even hybernating during the colder months. Come the warmer months they are on the move again, seeking food and water or just a nice warm place to sun themselves (part of regulating their body temperature). "Snake Season" is when we (and greyhounds) are more likely to have a "close encounter" with a snake. In the colder months, we would tend to have to go looking for them or unwittingly, disturb one. My brother has a cattle property in Queensland (150 kms inland). During the winter of 2007he unwittingly disturbed a King Brown who was sheltering in an old car tyre, used as border around a shrub. It was winter but it was Queensland (warmer climate) and the King Brown was not very happy and still sufficiently active to infict some damage. My brother was lucky he did not get bitten. I hope this is helpful.

Hey Lilly, have you seen any more snakes?

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