I don’t know that we have ever lost a cat to the snakes. With the cats around we have fewer snakes, fewer snakes means less threat from snakes to both human and animal life.
If you can somehow get a bunch of King Snakes on your property, you won’t have *any* rattlers.
I understand. We killed the rattle snakes and let the bull snakes alone to get the mice.
cats dont necessarily eat the snakes but they do keep the mice and vermin levels down. Less food for the snakes.
I wonder if the cats kill the mice et al that the snakes live upon more efficiently than the snakes do, so the snakes relocate.
I wonder if the cats kill the mice et al that the snakes live upon more efficiently than the snakes do, so the snakes relocate.
Cats and snakes hunt for the same food. More cats = less snakes.